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UID:meeting-245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Planning and Zoning Board\n\nCary's Planning and Zoning Board reviews two rezoning cases for consistency with the Imagine Cary Community Plan: the 22.74-acre Alston Commons mixed-use rezoning along NC 55\, which would add up to 625 apartments\, office space and a car wash\, and the 48.79-acre Yates Store Road rezoning near a historic store site\, which would add detached homes and townhouses. The board also reviews its 2024-2025 annual report.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2671&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/245
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5892
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Conference Room 11130\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nCary's Environmental Advisory Board met Aug. 12 to hear a GoCary transit update and approve its 2024-2025 Annual Report\, which lists the Sustainability and Climate Action Strategy and the Open Space Plan among the board's advisory contributions this year.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2673&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/252
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5838
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T201500
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Carpenter Park\, 4420 Louis Stephens Drive\, Cary\, NC 27519
DESCRIPTION:Public Art Advisory Board\n\nCary's Public Art Advisory Board approves its annual report covering the year's public art reviews on capital and private development projects\, its biennial Creative Placemaking Award\, and recognition of long-time public art volunteers.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2680\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/256
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5917
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council accepted a $400\,000 donation from the Shane Pegram Family Foundation to fully fund an accessible playground renovation at Davis Drive Park. It approved two annexations and rezonings on its consent agenda\, for 227 and 309 Barbee Road and a zoning map correction at 200 Glendon Way\, and extended the borrowing authority on $225 million in 2019 voter-approved bonds by three years\, with $100 million still unspent.\n\nThree more annexation and rezoning cases drew public hearings without a final vote: a 12.61-acre\, 24-home proposal on Pittard Sears Road that neighbors argued is too dense and would worsen stormwater and traffic\; a 48.79-acre assemblage at Yates Store Road and New Hope Church Road\; and a 4.33-acre tract on White Oak Church Road. All three were sent to the Planning and Zoning Board\, with council action deferred to a future meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2682\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/262
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6007
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-272@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council finalized annexation and rezoning of 48.79 acres at Yates Store Road and New Hope Church Road for up to 67 detached homes and 25 townhouses\, and took up advisory board appointments effective October 1. A separate rezoning for the 625-unit Alston Commons mixed-use project on NC 55 was pulled from the agenda at the applicant's own request.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2690&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/272
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5993
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council took up a busy October 23\, 2025 agenda: a $508\,050 demolition contract for the future GoCary Downtown Multi-Modal Transit Center\, a public hearing on annexing land for the Ferrell Road Assemblage's 230-home rezoning\, and a rezoning of 8732 Green Level Church Road for detached homes at 1.9 units per acre. The largest item\, a 625-unit mixed-use rezoning at Alston Commons on NC 55\, includes 48 EV charging spaces and a commitment to rent 5% of units at or below 80% of area median income.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2700&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/289
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5997
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T150000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Quarterly
LOCATION:Courtyard by Marriott Raleigh Cary/Parkside Town C\, 1008 Parkside Main St\, Cary\, NC 27519
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's quarterly council meeting on November 13 produced one figure worth remembering: 12 percent. The town manager told the council that when residents say the council approves nearly every rezoning\, the technically correct answer is that only 12 to 20 percent of potential rezonings ever reach a council vote\, because the council's policy goals filter out the rest before that.\n\nThe council also learned it recouped $46.9 million from reassessed capital projects — $15 million back to the general fund balance and $31.9 million to capital reserve\, of which $18.2 million is restricted to transportation\, $7.6 million to parks from developer payments in lieu\, and $6.1 million unrestricted.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2718&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/298
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5998
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Organizational Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council held its organisational meeting on December 4\, swearing in returning and newly elected members\, electing a mayor pro tem\, adopting the 2026 meeting calendar and taking the mayor's committee and board assignments.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so the results of the mayor pro tem vote and any changes to the appointments are not on the record here. The calendar sets two council meetings most months\, work sessions before eight of the regular meetings\, eight standalone work sessions\, quarterly meetings in May\, August and November\, and a retreat on February 20 and 21.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2731&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/312
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6002
CATEGORIES:Annual or organizational meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Senior Advisory Board\n\nCary's senior advisory board spent its January 14 meeting on GoCary\, the town's fare-free bus system\, and ended by walking outside town hall to tour a bus and look at its features first hand.\n\nStaff went through the nine fixed routes\, all connecting at the Cary Depot\, and the door-to-door service\, which is open to residents 60 and over as well as riders eligible under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That service runs in three tiers: within three quarters of a mile of a fixed route\, anywhere in town limits\, and out to Apex\, Morrisville\, Raleigh\, Durham and Chapel Hill for medical trips only.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2749\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/332
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6100
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-337@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council put $250\,000 behind finding out what went wrong at the top of its own organisation on January 22. It approved up to $150\,000 for a law firm investigation into matters related to the former town manager\, and $100\,000 for an employee engagement plan including a staff survey.\n\nThe council had placed the town manager on paid administrative leave unanimously on November 20\, and he resigned on December 13. The stated purpose of both pieces of work was to give the full council and the interim manager the information needed to resolve issues and move on.\n\nThe night also brought the Ferrell Road annexation and rezoning\, a GoCary Title VI programme update\, and a revisit of the money set aside for the Walnut Street gravel lot.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2751&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/337
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6012
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council took two council-initiated items on April 16\, both of which came back to the town later in the spring. Two members brought a community concern about e-bike safety\; two others brought a smoke-free ordinance\, which by late May had drawn high school students to the podium asking that it be extended to cover vaping.\n\nThe agenda also carried a public hearing on the Macedonia Place annexation and\, on consent\, the Woodfield Walnut annexation on Macedonia Road.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2789&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/386
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6186
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260505T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 11130\, Call-in information will be available on agenda\, For in person attendance: 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations\, Inclusion\, & Diversity Advisory Board\n\nCary's Human Relations\, Inclusion\, & Diversity Advisory Board takes up an update on the Hometown Spirit Award and hears a presentation on the town's transit system. The board also reviews its Community Engagement Table events and continues planning partnerships and an event for its community conversation series.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2804&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/399
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6092
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-411@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council opened the door to a data center moratorium on May 28. A council-initiated item asked staff to study pausing approval of new large-scale data centers\, including AI facilities\, while the town looks at what they do to land use\, transportation\, water\, utilities and the environment. Jordan Lake\, the region's drinking water source\, was named as the reason.\n\nThe night also carried two rezonings and the first of two public hearings on the recommended FY 2027 budget. One rezoning\, an amendment to the Sears Farm planned development for 87 townhouses at High House Road\, drew organized opposition from the neighboring Searstone retirement community. The other\, 275 multi-family units and ground-floor retail replacing aging offices on Weston Parkway\, came back after nine months of revisions.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2810&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/411
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6191
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-414@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 11130\, Call-in information will be available on agenda\, For in person attendance: 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations\, Inclusion\, & Diversity Advisory Board\n\nCary's human relations board put its questions to a police captain: what training the department does\, how it reaches underrepresented residents\, and how it works with other town departments.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2816&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/414
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6093
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council adopted its fiscal 2027 budget and awarded a $49.4 million construction bid for the GoCary bus operations and maintenance facility\, both 7-0. It also heard a rezoning that would put 52 houses on 23 acres in west Cary.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2825&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/427
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6208
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-455@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Planning and Zoning Board\n\nCary's Planning and Zoning Board took two rezonings on 24 August. The first\, case 22-REZ-06\, covers 11.22 acres at 8712 to 8740 Green Level Church Road\, moving it to transitional residential conditional use with conditions capping it at 39 detached houses. The second\, case 23-REZ-14\, covers 23.15 acres at 74 and 80 Saunders Grove Lane plus an unaddressed parcel\, moving it from R-40 to R-8 conditional use with a cap of 52 detached houses.\n\nThe board makes recommendations rather than decisions. Its job on each is to say whether the request is consistent with the Imagine Cary plan.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2841&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/455
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6059
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-458@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council considers an 18-month moratorium on accepting or processing data center and cryptocurrency-mining development applications\, exempting on-site equipment that draws under a megawatt\, while staff study power demand\, water use\, noise and site design and draft permanent rules. It also holds a hearing on annexing 8.99 acres at 4312 Jacobs Creek Lane\, tied to a rezoning for up to 16 detached houses\, with a vote deferred to a later meeting so the two can be decided together.\n\nA twelve-item consent agenda would authorize contracts including $905\,200 for engineering on the Western Wake Regional Water Reclamation Facility expansion\, a $4.14 million bid to rebuild the Cary Tennis Park courts\, and adoption of the ENGAGE and MOVE chapter updates to the Imagine Cary plan. Council also considers making permanent a parking ban on East Cedar Street.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2843&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/458
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-464@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council takes final action on the Jacobs Creek rezoning on Thursday\, annexing 8.99 acres at 4312 Jacobs Creek Lane and applying Cary zoning that limits the site to 16 detached dwellings\, inside the Jordan Lake watershed protection overlay and the conservation residential overlay. The planning and zoning board found it consistent with the Imagine Cary plan 6-0\, and the council held the hearing on 27 August.\n\nThe largest sum on the agenda is a $6\,125\,000 bid award to rebuild ultraviolet disinfection at the South Cary Water Reclamation Facility. The existing single channel\, in service since the plant opened in 1986\, has reached the end of its life\, and the project adds a second channel for higher future flows and for the backup that regulators now require before treated water goes to Middle Creek. The council also takes a three-year janitorial contract split between four firms at up to $3\,558\,493.71\, and advisory board appointments effective 1 October with an ordinance change adding a member to the Human Relations\, Inclusion\, and Diversity Advisory Board.\n\nEverything is on the consent agenda. There are no public hearings and no discussion items.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2850&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/464
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6216
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-473@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council takes up the Alston Commons rezoning on Thursday\, 22.74 acres at NC 55 and Petty Farm Road moving from office and research zoning to mixed use. The plan allows 500 to 625 apartments\, 200\,000 square feet of office and 55\,000 of commercial\, including a car wash of up to 30\,000 square feet. The applicant has committed to structured parking\, 48 electric vehicle charging spaces\, and renting at least 5 percent of the units to households at or below 80 percent of area median income for thirty years. The Planning and Zoning Board found the request consistent with the Imagine Cary plan 8-1\, in July 2025.\n\nThe council also votes on extending its smoking ban. The 2007 ordinance covers town buildings and vehicles\; the amendment would reach all town grounds\, the whole parks system including greenways and trails\, and private enclosed places open to the public across the town\, with a narrow allowance for designated outdoor smoking areas. E-cigarettes are covered throughout\, and the effective date is 1 July 2027.\n\nTwo more items and a long consent agenda. The Flat Iron development downtown asks to raise its permitted apartments from 200 to 250 and to cut the town's funding commitment\, in an amendment to the 2022 development agreement for what was the Number 5 Mixed Use project. A council member asks to make the Transportation and Mobility Committee a formal board. On consent are a five-year fuel management contract worth up to $14.81 million\, a $13.7 million amendment to the GoCary transit operations contract\, a $1.62 million water main on Optimist Farm Road that interconnects with Holly Springs for emergency backfeed\, and a $2\,367\,765 appropriation to cover an arbitrage rebate the town owed the federal government after unspent 2021 bond proceeds earned more interest than federal limits allow.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2861&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/473
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T190000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Work Session
LOCATION:Herbert C Young Community Center\, 101 Wilkerson Avenue\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's Town Council meets Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Herbert C. Young Community Center for a work session whose one topic is an update on the Multi-Modal Center project. The interim town manager also gives an update\, and a closed session is listed if needed. The agenda carries no staff report for the update\, so it gives no detail beyond the title.\n\nWork sessions take no public comment and hold no public hearings. The council's regular meeting follows at 6:30 p.m.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2869&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/480
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6219
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's Town Council decides Thursday whether to ban smoking and vaping across its parks\, greenways\, trails and town grounds. The ban would also cover enclosed public places throughout the town\, with a narrow allowance for designated outdoor smoking areas. The 2007 ordinance covers only town buildings and vehicles. The proposal would take effect on 1 July 2027.\n\nThe one public hearing is 23-REZ-14\, the Hatcher Property rezoning. It would rezone 23.15 acres at 74 and 80 Saunders Grove Lane and an adjoining Morrisville Carpenter Road parcel from R-40 to R-8-CU\, for up to 52 detached homes\, a transit easement and a greenway along the western edge. The Planning and Zoning Board found it consistent with the Imagine Cary plan 6-0\, and staff recommend approval. The consent agenda rewrites the fee schedule's text to meet a new state law requiring published fee methods and estimates within 10 business days. It also adds $238\,625 in inspection work to the water main replacement contract with CJS Conveyance.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2871&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/481
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6220
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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