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It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment at last week’s Raleigh City Council meeting: In less than 90 seconds and without any discussion, the council members removed two planning commissioners who were eligible to continue serving and replaced them with two of Mayor Janet Cowell’s nominees. 

This type of personnel shakeup is rare for the planning commission, which advises the city council about rezonings, annexations, and the city’s future growth. Normally, members get reappointed as long as they show up to meetings. 

One of the planning commissioners who was removed last week had a bad attendance record, so it makes sense that she didn’t get a second term. But the other ousted commissioner, Reeves Peeler, says he doesn’t fully understand why the city council gave him the boot.

Peeler says he’s never received any negative feedback—or outreach of any kind—from the city council about his work on the planning commission. But he got an inkling of how the reappointment vote might go when the mayor emailed him the day before to let him know she’d be nominating someone else for his seat.

Read more below, and have a good Tuesday.

 —Chloe

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Durham

ICYMI: A new, mixed-use apartment complex is taking applications on Main Street after an eight-year effort to bring affordable housing to county-owned property in downtown Durham, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.

Wake

Labor organizers at the Amazon RDU1 warehouse in Garner are challenging their February election loss, NC Newsline reports.

Orange

Two-term Chapel Hill council member Karen Stegman says she won’t be seeking re-election, WCHL reports.

North Carolina

WUNC reports on the Parents’ Medical Bill of Rights and its impact on teens’ access to treatment for mental health conditions, sexually transmitted diseases and more.

Today’s weather

Rainy with a high of 77 degrees.

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