2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, April 2024

Land Use

jurisdictional land area is residentially zoned, and approximately 55 percent of this area is zoned for single-family development only. Approximately 25 percent of the city is zoned for a mix of uses, and nearly all the mixed-use zones permit residential development. Of the city’s mixed-use zoning districts, only Office Park, which accounts for just 0.5 percent of the mixed-use districts total, does not permit residential use. Approximately 11 percent of the city is zoned for industrial uses but only four percent contains industrial development, as office and retail uses are also permitted as-of

right within industrially-zoned land. Conditional use zoning, a special tool that allows landowners seeking a rezoning to add conditions over and above the underlying zoning standards, applies to 16 percent of the city’s land area. These additional standards are part of the zoning ordinance, and are also kept as individual case files associated with particular rezonings. Overall, the city’s Unified Development Ordinance provides the public with greater clarity and simplicity than what was offered with the previous development code.

Table LU-1 Land Use Allocation, City of Raleigh Planning Jurisdiction Land Use (within ETJ, excluding right of way) Parcels Acres (2) Percentage Residential - Single-family 88,960 34,409 34.4% Vacant 8,990 19,656 19.6% Parks, Greenways, Open Space 3,134 12,539 12.5% Residential - Apartment, Condominium 1,979 6,465 6.5% Industrial 1,421 5,638 5.6% Civic 476 5,264 5.3% Office 1,240 3,779 3.8% Retail 762 2,371 2.4% Residential - Townhouse, Duplex 26,449 2,203 2.2% Residential - Manufactured, Group Living, Social Service 129 1,273 1.2% Agriculture 14 1,084 1.1% Mixed Use 115 124 .1% Other (3) 1,591 5,337 5.3% TOTAL 135,260 100,142 100% City of Raleigh, Department of City Planning, 2016

2 Does not include public right of way. The city’s total area, including extraterritorial jurisdiction, covers approximately 115,000 acres 3 All other use categories

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