Just keep in mind that the new owners just paid $2M for .33 acre parcel. So I am also betting the number is north of the high 900s that they are tossing around. I too am glad for the trash trees to be history. But I do miss the few larger ones.
I can bring you my recycling if you’d like…
Progress at Lenoir/West. Once the townhouses are built, that intersection should feel properly “urban” even with the big grassy berm up to the Fairweather.
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Btw, we would totally do more with that berm but, $$ and Duke are standing in the way. Also, we (Fairweather) only own halfway down the berm.
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Feel the Berm!
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Does anyone know how Dukes at Cityview are doing in presales? Are they even on the market yet? How many will actually have city views that aren’t blocked by the storage building?
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Also how confusing is it that we have projects of interest at both 600 W South and 600 S West at the same time?
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This actually caused some serious and annoying mix-ups for people trying to reach me when I was working on W. North St. Given that North St. is broken up into two non-connecting streets, it might be worthwhile to rename that one.
I’m not sure what to do about the others. Starting from scratch, I wouldn’t have created both a S. West St. and a N. West St. and so on, but I’m not sure if that can be undone now without renumbering the streets. Could rename West Street too, I suppose. Call it Train St. or Railroad St. or something.
Given that the cardinal direction named streets were the boundaries of the original William Christmas plan for the city, I don’t think that I’d want the road renamed.
Also, I never thought of this before, but cardinal direction named streets of the capital city of a state with the cardinal as the state bird…hmmm???
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Yeah, I realize there’s a ton of historical significance there (although most people in town probably aren’t deeply invested in that).
But having a N. West St. and a W. North St. that use many of the same numbers, and a S. West St. and a W. South St. that also use many of the same numbers, really does cause confusion, which is problematic. I mean, I guess we’ve gotten along okay for this long, so we can probably keep on keeping on, I suppose. But I certainly wouldn’t have done that if I had it to do over again.
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I can see that it’s confusing and a mouthful at times. Then again, that’s what Waze and Google Maps are for.
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Well guess DC and NY need to rename all there streets as well.
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Numbered and lettered streets are much simpler than “North West Street” and “West North Street”.
Outside of NYC they do lack a bit of evocative-ness, though.
I don’t know, here in my little village I use to live on 7th st and 8th ave. Folks can never remember which run which direction, if they have any idea about what direction is N/S to start with, lol.
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DC has nice clear street names as E NW, E SW, E SE and E NE that are 2 different east-west streets. If not educated on the DC street name system would be really confusing. And then there are things like skipped and duplicate letters such as J and G ST AND G PL, and sometimes non letter streets between letters such as Summer Row between L and M. Point being all cities can be confusing if you do not know the layout. Heck Goggle sent me around in a circle 3 times a few weeks ago before I just gave up on Goggle and stopped and asked someone how to get where I wanted to go.
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I live on N St. SW in DC, and get some mail that’s been “auto-corrected” to “North St. SW”. I used to live on W. North Ave. in Chicago, and still own westnorth.com to this day; used to get a fair amount of email intended for an art gallery on W. North Ave. in Baltimore. This appears to be an ongoing theme in my life.
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Looks like the former Lynde property is back on the rezoning docket. Is this basically just adding TOD?
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Adding -TOD and bumping up each of the base zones (R-10 to RX-3, NX-3 to RX-4, NX-4 to RX-7) to the next density classification up. I don’t know why they’re maintaining the three different zones, which seems unnecessarily complex to me. The -TOD is newly rewritten (and adds a potential further density bonus, if affordable housing is included); the R-10 to RX-3 is allowable since the Missing Middle comp plan change adjusted the city’s FLUM categories upwards.
Case number is Z-4-22: https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/Z-004-22.pdf
Offering a condition to limit the corner (601 W South) to 85’, which coincidentally is the maximum height of a stick building.
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I wonder what the holdup is. To my (untrained) eye it looks pretty much like it did here in @oakcityyimby’s post from 3 months ago.