Upcoming Raleigh Events
CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
Economic Development and Innovation Committee Meeting
Economic Development and Innovation Committee Meeting
Growth and Natural Resources Committee Meeting
Growth and Natural Resources Committee Meeting
Transportation and Transit Committee Meeting
Transportation and Transit Committee Meeting
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Find Your Dream Job With Raleigh Parks!
Find Your Dream Job With Raleigh Parks!
Advice About Your Device Drop-In Hours
Advice About Your Device Drop-In Hours
Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities Meeting
Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities Meeting
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 2751 Capital Blvd
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 2751 Capital Blvd
Hybrid Midtown Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) Meeting
Hybrid Midtown Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) Meeting
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 2500 Blue Ridge Road
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 2500 Blue Ridge Road
Hillsborough-Wade CAC meeting on Zoom
Hillsborough-Wade CAC meeting on Zoom
Transportation and Transit Committee Meeting
Transportation and Transit Committee Meeting
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 105, 107, 109 Edenburgh
Neighborhood Rezoning Meeting: 105, 107, 109 Edenburgh
Community Engagement Board – Equity Subcommittee Meeting
Community Engagement Board – Equity Subcommittee Meeting
Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities Meeting
Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities Meeting
Read up on our latest news…
Seeking Redemption as Baldwin Fades
Come November, Raleigh voters may be willing to chalk up the vote to sack CACs as a bad rookie error. More telling will be if voters accept candid apologies for subverting our voting rights. If so, voters may be willing to give Branch, Forte or Melton another chance in office.
City Council takes the right first steps for New Bern Ave corridor
With this decision, Council has aimed to make the New Bern corridor more transit-friendly, but without displacing the residents of the historic neighborhoods along the corridor.
City Council Meetings March 11 & 12, 2024
Highlights from March 11 budget work session, March 12 work session on strategic plan, and March 12 public comments.
Zoning proposal threatens Raleigh’s water supply
Scientific studies have shown that nothing is better for a water supply than being surrounded by naturally forested land. Not only does a leaf canopy break up falling raindrops, but leaf litter beneath the trees can hold a lot of rainwater until it soaks into the ground. When it comes to protecting water quality, we have to be both unyielding and uncompromising in our efforts. Clean water is our lifeblood with respect to both our physical and economic health.
Silenced voices will speak the loudest
When leadership fails to listen or blatantly disregards or dismisses their constituents, it creates a harsh disconnect between the government and the people it serves. This can and has led to feelings of frustration, anger, and ultimately a breakdown in trust between the community and its leaders.
City Council Meetings March 5, 2024
Highlights from March 5 Afternoon and Evening City Council Meetings.
INDY Best of 2024 – Wake County – Nominations are OPEN
The nominations for INDY’s Best of 2024 Wake County are open until March 13. You only have a few days to get your choices in. We hope you will consider nominating us again this year as “Best Local Activist Group”
Thank You for re-instating CACs, now let’s fix the Neighborhood Rezoning Meetings
All the work the city has done to expand engagement opportunities could have been done while CACs remained in place. The need was NEVER either/or. It has always been both/and.
Developers put a BIG FOOT over existing NOAH communities
Having developers throw us a bone and expect us to say Thank You is an insult. This is not a small step toward more affordability but a big foot over existing NOAH communities.
Tax Season Fraud Alert – Advice from Raleigh PD
Attendees at February’s North CAC meeting received some great advice from RPD representatives. Every month at the North CAC meeting we hear a report from RPD officers who come to give details and take questions from those in attendance. This month the officers came with some extra timey advice to avoid tax season scams.
City Council should set a tax rate that is revenue neutral
As both a real estate appraiser and a broker, I have been fielding a lot of questions from friends and clients who are very worried about how much higher their property taxes might become. There are people in Wake County who can absorb a higher tax rate, but here are a lot of folks who will not be able to do so.
It’s time to Wake UP to facts.
Tim Niles submitted a Letter to the Editor of the N&O in response to an Op-Ed from the Director of WakeUP Wake County on the topic of the New Bern Avenue upzoning proposal. The LTE wasn’t published so we are printing it.
Token gestures of affordability are not good enough
This is the 3rd TOD case that has come before you with a token gesture of affordability. I have no doubt developers will continue to find ways around providing affordable units needed for BRT to be successful. By far, the most troubling statement in the staff report that you need to pay attention to is, “by adding the TOD, the site will have increased residential entitlement WITHOUT having to incorporate affordability measures.” However you crunch the numbers on the affordable housing condition that’s been provided, it doesn’t add up to a good decision. If you approve this rezoning, you will grant MORE entitlement than the current zoning WITHOUT the affordability requirement.
February 20, 2024 City Council Meetings
HIGHLIGHTS At work session staff outlined plan for adopting a new comprehensive plan. A robust community engagement process is proposed. Hopefully they will include presentations to CACs. Comprehensive Plan Amendment CP-4-23: Downtown Transition Areas...
February 19, 2024 City Council Budget Work Session
Highlights from the February 19 Budget Work Session
Election Reforms for Raleigh City Council
Livable Raleigh believes the City Council should do what the people told them they want. But, if they are hell-bent on moving to four-year terms despite the views of the people, it should ONLY be done if they implement a nonpartisan primary to go with it, thus getting rid of the current “plurality” election format and ensuring we elect the members of City Council by majority vote.
We’re FOUR!
Livable Raleigh published our first blog, Why Livable Raleigh was Born, four years ago on February 17, 2020. Just like any other four-year-old, we can't wait to grow even bigger. So, instead of a fund-raiser, we are having a "FRIEND-RAISER" as our birthday...
Meaningful support required before massive upzoning
I think there is a lot of good we can do here. But, I also do want to take abundant caution when it comes to the upzoning pieces.
City Council Meeting February 13, 2024
Highlights Work session focused on Downtown Economic Development; priorities and funding will be discussed at 2/27 meeting of Economic Development and Innovation Committee. Mayor Baldwin absent and excused from the evening meeting. Evening meeting was cancelled after...
Urgent SE Raleigh Issue
We are on notice from the City of Raleigh. If you haven’t had the opportunity to drive through Southeast Raleigh and notice the change in the place – you need to do so.