After several years of work and public input the City Council passed the planning Department’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan.
Planners Mitchell Silver and Ken Bowers worked tirelessly organizing the citizens and departments within the City of Raleigh to create a massive document addressing both particularities and general rules for going forward with Raleigh’s growth. The Comprehensive plan is designed as a guideline for shaping forthcoming development to tailor it towards specific goals for the city. In the 2030 plan’s case those goals are toward increasing mixed use density to decrease the need for new roads and to preserve open rural and park space whenever possible. There are also strong guidelines in the design and access of buildings downtown and beyond.
Zoning is a contentious issue that the citizens of Raleigh are all too familiar with. Throughout the city, the planning staff worked with residents who asked questions and submitted feedback on the planned zoning shaping the future of their neighborhoods.
David Bracken at the N&O underscored that Thomas Crowder and the active citizens of District D submitted 53 changes to land use across the city. Long before Crowder was facing challengers in this election, his commitment to bettering the plan was obvious- consistently the most visible and engaged council member at every comprehensive plan meeting for the duration of the process- his engagement should be applauded. Crowder’s district also had two areas that are temporarily exempted from the Comprehensive Plan. The area where Morgan Street and Hillsborough meet and the Jones Franklin/Western Boulevard intersection area. Both area’s have complex traffic patterns and a wide variety of density and commercial property make them tricky planning problems. The Comprehensive Plan looks to better all development and the complexities of better transitions between different types of zoning.
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