A public hearing on the East Gate City Boulevard Corridor Plan is on the agenda for the Tuesday, July 18 City Council meeting at 5:30 in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber.

The Greensboro Planning Department is recommending that the City Council approve the corridor study, which will amend the GSO 2040 Comprehensive Plan. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend adoption of the plan.

The approval of the East Gate City Boulevard Corridor Plan is on the agenda, but the corridor plan is not in the agenda packet.

It makes you wonder why the plan would not be included on the agenda, since the City Council is holding a public hearing on the plan.

The three attachments for item H.6, which is “Resolution to Consider East Gate City Boulevard Plan Public Hearing and Consideration of Adoption,” are:

  1. “East Gate City Boulevard Plan Public Hearing and Consideration of Adoption
  2. EGCB Area
  3. Resolution Adopting East Gate City Boulevard Corridor Plan

But the EGCB plan is not attached to any of those items.

The plan is not a secret and is available on the city of Greensboro website, but it’s not easy to find.  So for anyone interested, here is a link to the actual Gate City Boulevard Corridor Plan that the City Council will almost certainly approve on Tuesday: Draft East Gate City Boulevard Corridor Plan

The EGCB plan has been in the works for a while. The first open house on the plan was held in December 2021 and the last in September 2022.

The EGCB calls for a new “activity-center” that will be anchored by the proposed Windsor-Chavis-Nocho Community Complex at the intersection of Benbow Road and East Gate City Boulevard.  GSO2040 does not include this area as an activity center, but if the plan is adopted by the City Council, then GSO2040 will be amended to include this newly designated activity center.

One part of the plan that is popular with professional planners but in other areas has met with objections from residents is diversifying housing in single-family residential areas to include “duplexes and small apartment buildings.”

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