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Council annexes 2608 Forestville Road and approves rezoning for Habitat for Humanity townhomes with affordability condition
Summary
Raleigh annexed a Wake County parcel and rezoned it to allow up to 30 townhome units, with at least half committed as affordable to households at or below 80% AMI for 15 years; access and fire-service response issues were discussed but no NCDOT driveway decision was reported.
Raleigh City Council voted to annex a 4.5-acre parcel at 2608 Forestville Road (AX-2024) and approved a conditional rezoning (Z-2824) to allow a townhome development with specific affordability and design conditions.
Hannah Rekow, planning and development staff, said the parcel is contiguous with the city limits but currently outside Raleigh's extraterritorial jurisdiction and carries Wake County R-30 zoning. She told the council the rezoning request is to Residential-10 Conditional Use and summarized seven proposed conditions: "commit at least 50% of the units on the site to be, made affordable" to households earning no more than 80% of area median income for at least 15 years; cap the total units at "no more than 30 units on the site"; require a landscaped buffer along Forestville Road; require…
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