Raleigh’s Planning Commission is scheduled on Tuesday to review a controversial rezoning near West and Peace Streets that could pave the way for a 30-story mixed-use development.
Those plans have sparked a months-long pushback from local homeowners concerned that the project is too close to the historic Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhood and would set a precedent for future developments. Lawn signs protesting the rezoning have been set up along Glenwood and Wade Avenues in Raleigh.
“Raleigh needs to grow. It should grow. But how it grows matters,” said Roy Attride, a local homeowner and the head of the grassroots group Raleigh Neighbors United…