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Council approves Honeycutt Road rezoning with pedestrian access and enhanced stormwater conditions
Summary
Council approved a rezoning for Honeycutt Road that adds a formal pedestrian/emergency access easement from Chatterton Drive, collapsible bollards, and additional stormwater requirements including 25‑year event control and sediment basin standards. The Bent Tree HOA said it supports the rezoning with these conditions.
Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a rezoning for a parcel on Honeycutt Road with revised conditions that include pedestrian connectivity, emergency‑access easements and strengthened stormwater controls.
Planning staff described the condition updates as focused on access and water‑quality protections. The approved conditions require a 10‑foot‑wide pedestrian access easement from Chatterton Drive into the internal pedestrian network, allow an emergency‑service vehicle access up to 16 feet with at least two collapsible bollards to prevent non‑emergency traffic, and call for stormwater measures that account for the 25‑year storm, enhanced post‑construction practices and construction‑period sediment controls.
Worth Mills, attorney for the applicant, told the council the applicant revised the application to add the access easement language and enhanced stormwater measures and that the Stormwater Management Advisory Commission and the Bent Tree Homeowners Association supported the changes. Alex Bloom, president of the Bent Tree HOA, told council the neighborhood engaged extensively and ultimately supported the rezoning provided Chatterton remains closed to cut‑through traffic and the new stormwater commitments are enforced.
Councilors said the emergency‑access easement and collapsible bollards were intended to ensure first‑responder access without opening the neighborhood to through traffic. One council member emphasized the public‑safety rationale: council members recalled instances where limited access delayed emergency response and said appropriately managed emergency access is important.
The council adopted the associated consistency statement and approved the zoning amendment with the revised conditions. The approval was framed as an amendment to the future land‑use map where noted in staff materials.
Staff will record required easements on the subdivision plat and proceed with technical review of final stormwater designs and construction standards.
