East CAC August 2009 draft meeting minutes

East CAC Meeting Minutes
August 2009
Submitted by Secretary Sue Sturgis

Chair Mark Turner called the August meeting of Raleigh’s East Citizens Advisory Council to order shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday, August 17 at Lions Park Community Center. There were about 30 people in attendance throughout the evening. The July minutes were approved.

OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS: The CAC’s Outreach, Planning and Economic Development Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14 at the Lions Park center to discuss rezoning case Z-18-09 involving the Longview Grocery at 2405 Poole Road at Norwood with developer Daniel Coleman.

This involves a rezoning from Residential-6, which the city imposed on the store when it annexed the area in 1948, to Shopping Center-Conditional Use, with conditions including no convenience store, auto facility or drive-through restaurant. (For more details on the case and possible conditions, see the March minutes at http://www.eastraleigh.org/?p=147 and the June minutes at http://www.eastraleigh.org/?p=190.) A public hearing is scheduled for October 21 before a joint panel of the City Council and Planning Commission.
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East CAC meets Monday, 21 September!

Jay Mercer, Director of the City’s Emergency Management Center, discusses Emergency Preparedness. Also, the Z-18-09 rezoning: the convenience store at Poole Road at Norwood and nominations will be taken for East CAC Chair.

The East CAC will hold its next meeting on Monday, 21 September at 7 PM at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue.

We will hear from Jay Mercer, Director of the City’s Emergency Management Center, who will talk to us about Emergency Preparedness, both from what the City does to prepare for disasters, etc. to what the citizens should do to prepare themselves. He will also bring along someone to talk about the CERT (Community Emergency Response Training) training that is available to those who may be interested.

We will also hear from our CAC’s OPED committee regarding its recommended action on Z-18-09, the rezoning of the convenience store property at Poole Road at Norwood. East CAC residents will then vote on this rezoning request.

Last but not least my term as East CAC Chair is expiring, so we’ll be taking nominations at this meeting for voting at our October meeting.

We hope to see you there!

Mark Turner
East CAC