Afternoon session starts at 1 p.m. Evening sessions starts at 7 p.m. It’s a big day for the Raleigh City Council. This afternoon, they’ll take up home rental services, relocation of the Rex Senior Health Center and the sale of Stone’s warehouse, plus two controversial rezoning cases— the Dillon Supply building, and the restored Gethsemane […]
Jane Porter
Jane Porter is Wake County editor of the INDY, covering Raleigh and other communities across Wake County. She first joined the staff in 2013 and is a former INDY intern, staff writer, and editor-in-chief.
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In North Carolina, your right to protest unwanted development will soon be a relic of the past
On Thursday, the Senate voted 39-10 in favor of a bill that repeals citizen protest petitions, and Gov. Pat McCrory has said he will sign the bill into law, according to a News and Observer report. Citizens have just lost the only formal tool they had to try to keep unwanted development out of their […]
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N.C. Senate gives initial OK to bill repealing protest petitions
Shine up your pitchforks, North Carolina citizens; they’re likely the only tool you’ll have left in fighting unwanted developments in your neighborhoods. The state Senate voted 39-9 in favor of a bill to repeal zoning protest petitions Wednesday afternoon, after the bill cleared the Senate Commerce Committee on short notice Tuesday. “This bill in no […]
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N.C. Legislature stripping citizens of protest petition power
They thought they’d won. In January, under community pressure, Publix gave up on its plan to build a grocery store at the intersection of Falls of Neuse and Dunn roads in North Raleigh, a plan that engendered considerable acrimony from residents who worried about the prospect of nightmarish traffic, strip-mall-esque eyesores and adverse environmental impacts. […]
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45 North Raleigh homeowners file zoning protest petition on “Publix” site
If you, reasonable person, believed that the City Council’s unanimous vote on May 12 to deny the rezoning of the intersection of Dunn and Falls of Neuse Roads to a commercial district was going to put the kibosh on the matter, you were wrong. That happened, but Raleigh’s Planning Department has persisted in recommending commercial […]
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Will there be a downtown grocery store at 301 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh?
John Kane, manager of Kane Realty Group, developer of North Hills, has set his sights (sites?) on downtown Raleigh. According to records obtained by the INDY this week from the City of Raleigh, Kane offered to purchase the city-owned land at 301 Hillsborough Street—a parking lot across the street from the Dawson Condominiums and Campbell […]
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Wake County to take the public out of a public library
So last week, Wake County Public Libraries unceremoniously informed residents of a mixed-income Southwest Raleigh neighborhood that, starting July 26, the Athens Drive High School library many of them had come to rely on for book-learnin’ and Internet access would be closed. Shockingly, this did not go over well. In a letter, Ann Burlingame, deputy […]
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North Carolina Legislature could gut lake, river protections
When we think of the Neuse River, most of us conjure up images of leafy banks, sandy beaches and placid waters ideal for canoeing and kayaking, not thousands of dead fish floating on the surface. But if a provision in House Bill 44a regulatory reform measure that would allow developers to bulldoze right up to […]
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Duke Energy recommends clean-up for more coal ash sites across N.C.
On Tuesday morning, Duke Energy took the long-awaited step of recommending excavation of 12 additional coal ash basins at three unlined, leaking sites across North Carolina, in addition to the work it’s already doing to clean up six other sites. Duke Energy announced plans to clean up and potentially close five basins at the Cape […]
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Raleigh’s Warehouse District: A tale of two Dillons
Correction: The photo of the Charter Square building was incorrectly credited to Art Howard; it actually belongs to Raleigh news blog New Raleigh Yesterday, Raleigh real estate and development blog Capital Compass shared a rendering from Kane Realty of developer John Kane’s vision for the Dillon Supply building and nearby parcels of land in downtown […]
