Aug 082015
 

Our next HGBNA meeting will take place at a different location and time in order to allow Tania Tully, Preservation Planner with the Planning Commission and Doug Hill of the Planning Commission to join us for an important informational session on everything you ever wanted to know about Streetside Historic Overlay Districts (HOD-S).

Preserve Glenwood-Brooklyn

The City has initiated the process to establish a Streetside HOD in Glenwood-Brooklyn (aka Historic District lite). This will have a major impact on future development and the preservation of the historic character of our neighborhood, so it affects everyone who lives here.

If you attend only one HGBNA meeting this year, make it this one.

Where: Seven Dance Studio
501 Washington St., end of the street, next to the railroad tracks
(enter in the back of building from the parking lot)
When: Monday, August 24 at 6:30pm

Important: BRING YOUR OWN CHAIRS! The studio is just a big room, so we’ll need to bring our own seating.

Coming up: watch your inbox for a survey in the next few days—this will be used to gauge support for the HOD.

Questions about the meeting or the proposed HOD-S?
HGBN.historic.district.questions@gmail.com

Thanks.

Your HGBNA team

Jul 022015
 

2015 July HGBNA meetingTuesday, July 21, we’ll hold our next HGBNA meeting, a very important one, which will feature a presentation by Tania Tully from the Raleigh Historic Development Commission
(6:30pm, Jenkins United Methodist Church, 725 North Boylan Avenue)

The Kids’ Table will be available so if you need to bring your using-crayons-age children in order to attend this critical meeting, please consider doing so. RSVP for your children with Elizabeth Miller at HGBNAkids@gmail.com so she and Zoe know how many will join in the fun.

Thanks for your support, and we hope to see you at the meeting! Any questions, contact Gina Fesmire.

 July 2, 2015  Posted by at 11:58 pm HGBNA, HGBNA meetings, Historic District (local), Neighborhood Issues, Remapping Comments Off on Next HGBNA meeting Tuesday July 21 – an important one!
Jun 252015
 

Raleigh News & Observer

A pretty fair description overall of our effort to protect our neighborhood’s character while we undergo inevitable change, though we’d make one correction. Go have a read!

Residents in a neighborhood near downtown are pushing for the area to become a historic district in an effort to prevent new development* and drastic changes.

The Raleigh City Council initiated a plan to give the Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhood a historic designation.

The title would slow development changes in the area, including teardowns of existing homes, said Martha Lauer, executive director of the Raleigh Historic Development Commission.

Glenwood-Brooklyn neighbors push for historic designation

* This really shouldn’t say “prevent new development” as that’s not our goal, we want to have a say about how it occurs.