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More from Tuesday Night
Tuesday night's city council meeting ran a bit late for our presses to catch up, so here's some of what you didn't read in today's paper. (If you want to read along, the agenda is online here.);
The council voted again to uphold a rezoning along New Garden Road across from Jefferson Elementary School. Because it was approved by only a 5-4 vote in the previous meeting, the council has to vote a second time, and the votes lined up exactly the same. Robbie Perkins, Don Vaughan, Claudette Burroughs-White, Florence Gatten and Tom Phillips voted in favor. Mayor Keith Holliday, Sandy Carmany, Dianne Bellamy-Small, and Yvonne Johnson voted against.
In the second zoning case of the night, the council overturned the Zoning Commission and approved the annexation and rezoning of 67 acres off of Covered Wagon Road south of Interstate 40/85. The vote was 8-1 to approve the developer's plans, with Bellamy-Small voting against.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, several users of the SCAT van system for disabled residents asked the council to rescind a 100% increase in monthly fares for certain riders that live inside the city but more than three-quarters of a mile from a regular bus line. We wrote about the fare increase last week, which goes into effect November 1.
Many members of the council appeared to want to limit the increase, but Greensboro Transit Authority Board Chairwoman Jane Walker Payne urged the council to hold off action until GTA could present more information to the council at a briefing later this month.
A group of two dozen vendors at A&T's homecoming came to ask the council to delay new regulations that limit them to setting up only in the parking lot in War Memorial Stadium. But with the event only a few days away, the council decided to keep the rules in place for now.