While the rest of us are lost in the text of the new (draft) comprehensive plan, so replete with noble sentiments, the guys in suits are focused like a James Carville message on this — the Future Land Use Map.
What you see is a snapshot of a small piece of it. Full-size, you could paper your guest room with it.
The FLUM, we’re told, doesn’t “entitle” anybody to anything, and certainly not to any future rezoning … or that’s the official line from the city anyway. But if that’s the case, why is every developers lawyer in Raleigh down at the Planning Commission trying to get their clients’ tracts rezoned (oops, I keep making that mistake) redefined as to their future use? The answer is …
