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A Wake County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a December city of Raleigh rezoning that allows for a building of up to 27 stories on a lot near the Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhood and downtown.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors opposed the rezoning, primarily focusing on the potential building\u2019s height \u2014 more than twice as tall as a 12-story building housing apartments and a Publix grocery store across the street. The rezoning affected a 2.6-acre lot at the northeast corner of Peace and West streets.<\/p>\n

The first floor of the proposed building will have retail and commercial space<\/u><\/a>, and market-rate apartments are planned for the remaining floors, The News & Observer previously reported.<\/p>\n

Nearby residents Roy Attride III, Connie Upchurch and David Knight sued the city in December to overturn the rezoning.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday afternoon, the residents\u2019 attorney, Kevin Hornik, had not responded to messages left over the phone and email.<\/p>\n

Neighbors argued there were flaws in the process and called it illegal \u201cspot zoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spot zoning is when the government changes an area\u2019s zoning in a way that contrasts significantly with its surroundings.<\/p>\n

In North Carolina, local governments must have a reasonable basis for spot zoning, retired UNC-Chapel Hill law professor David Owens wrote in 2023.<\/p>\n

The same developers tried to rezone the property to allow for up to 30 floors in 2023, but the council denied the proposal at the time.<\/p>\n

This time the developers offered the city $1.2 million for its affordable housing fund and reduced the allowed number of floors.<\/p>\n

The suit argued that the rezoning request hadn\u2019t substantially changed from before, and that therefore the city\u2019s approving it was \u201carbitrary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The over-70-page suit also alleged numerous flaws in meeting procedures that neighbors said affected the validity of the council\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

The city rebutted many of the assertions made in the lawsuit, including that the rezoning should even be considered spot zoning.<\/p>\n

In its motion to dismiss, the city also said that even if the decision did constitute spot zoning, the council did give a reason for rezoning the area, meaning it wouldn\u2019t be illegal.<\/p>\n

City Council members cited a need for more housing across the city in approving the rezoning, The N&O reported at the time.<\/p>\n

The council had to grant a special waiver to accept the rezoning application before the expiration of a two-year waiting period required after rejecting a proposal for the same property from the same developer.<\/p>\n

The suit argued that the waiver was \u201cquasi-judicial,\u201d or similar in nature to the process of a court with hearings and witnesses and weighed based on the city\u2019s already established rules and regulations. The suit argued that proper quasi-judicial proceedings were not followed and hearings to provide evidence didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

However, the city maintained that decision was not quasi-judicial, and that it was a policy decision by the council, not requiring those kinds of procedures.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Wake County Superior Court Judge Clayton Somers dismissed the suit, writing in his order on May 13 that the suit failed to \u201cstate claim upon which relief may be granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essentially, that means that even if everything alleged in the suit is true<\/u><\/a>, there\u2019s no law violated or legal remedy for the situation, according to Cornell University\u2019s Legal Information Institute.<\/p>\n

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