Add another rezoning to the Glenwood South area. NW corner of Lane / Boylan intersection to OX-12-UL. 3 plots ~0.4 acre.
Project description: single building containing an integrated, compact vertical mix of retail, office, and residential uses. secured parking under the building for residents and urban open space adjacent to ground level retail uses and building entrances. multi-family residential component is approx 9 to 12 condominium-style units located above the first 2 floors consisting of retail and office use.
really really exciting if this gets built to the description. Exactly the kind of small-scale mixed use development that is hard to come by but lovely to see, especially a couple blocks off a main business corridor⌠if thereâs an active street-level use, itâd feel like a small expansion of street life into an area that skews residential. Also: condos! Hereâs the area in question. Looks like only one historic structure thatâd be sacrificed.
I mentioned it only because thereâs a part of me thatâs bummed when we have to trade, say, a row of Victorians or bungalows for new construction when there are a thousand surface parking lots that could be developed first. Thatâs not the case here â itâs one lil 1910 house and two completely nondescript structures. Bulldoze away.
New Zoning request for the Glenwood South area, this one on Lane and Boylan. Initially reported by @mike a couple of days ago but the official request just hit the Raleigh Wire.
Requesting change from OX-3-DE w/NCOD to OX-12-UL-CU
Canât they SEE how this is going to impact the history and quality of our neighborhoods?? Simply the SIGHT of this is going to deteriorate our property values!!
SEE what I did there?
Another shootingâŚtime to move more traffic around the neighborhood.
I suppose this isnât what the city was envisioning when they spent all those years courting a grocery store and doing all that they could do to get people to commit to being residents to make the grocer happen.
Its a pretty simple solutionâŚ.drop the âenforcement hammerâ on Cornerstone & all of the other cheesy ass barsâŚmake it such a pain in the ass to continue to operate. Pull in the SBI to conduct a few drug raids & have alcohol
Checkpoints at every outlet in & out of Glenwood South
The city could enforce its noise ordinance, whatever that is these days. For seemingly forever, there are motorcyclists cruising the streets with stereo systems so loud that you can hear them many blocks away. There are cars doing to same. Cars themselves (that cruiseâŚbut more on that next) have been modified to be so loud that the noise can be heard loudly from inside ones home. If venues were forced to operate their loud music INSIDE their venue instead of filling up their entire property with partiers and loud music, maybe the city would have a much more controllable crowd situation?
The city could implement a no cruising policy to eliminate much of the traffic that itâs trying to fix by squeezing folks out of the main strip and into adjacent residential areas.
The city could police the speeding and running of traffic signals. The speed limit has been reduced to 25 MPH, but on my evening walk yesterday I saw car after car doubling the limit and I was nearly run over by someone who just blew through a red light as I was in the crosswalk at Boylan and Morgan.
The city could leverage its conditional use mechanism when petitions for rezoning for density are in process. I think that the city envisions the emergence of more walkable neighborhoods, but those will not come to pass when the district with the most housing and the cityâs only full scale, full service downtown grocer continues to be overrun with just weekend party joints.
I was on the rooftop of the Botanical Garden last night. I didnât hear a pop, although people closer to the streetside did. There was a pool of blood on the sidewalk as well as streaks of blood on one of the doors.
There were cops all over the street. I have no idea who would be so brazen. Seems like this is more of a Glenwood stupidity issue than it is an issue with the presence Raleigh has added.
I did take some pictures of the scene, but theyâre graphic. So, I wonât be posting them on the forums.
