The Fayetteville police and fire departments are scheduled to present their fourth-quarter reports from 2022 at the Fayetteville City Council meeting Monday at City Hall.
It will be the first quarterly report from Police Chief Kemberle Braden, who was sworn into the position earlier this month.
In the Police Department’s last quarterly update in November, the department reported an increase in homicides and the overall crime rate, CityView reported.
Public hearing on new apartment units
The City Council will also hold a public hearing on a rezoning case that would allow as many as 72 apartment units to be built off Rim Road in west Fayetteville.
Low housing supply, like in most of the state and country, is an issue that affects affordability in Fayetteville.
A June 2021 affordable housing study by the city found that Fayetteville was short 20,000 affordable housing units at the time.
The study also found that 75% of all households in the city that earn 60% or less of the area median income were cost-burdened. That means those households spent 30% or more of their annual income on housing costs.
The entity applying for the rezoning is Leisure Living CB LLC, according to the agenda for Monday’s meeting. The company is requesting that the land be rezoned from single-family housing only to a zone code that allows for denser housing developments, such as an apartment complex.
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Residents can sign up for the public hearing online, in person at the city clerk’s office by 5 p.m. Monday, by phone at 910-433-1312, by fax at 910-433-1980 or by email at cityclerk@ci.fay.nc.us.
When signing up, residents must list their name, address and say whether they will speak in favor or in opposition to the rezoning.
Ben Sessoms covers Fayetteville and education for CityView. He can be reached at bsessoms@cityviewnc.com.
