The Goal is Development without Displacement
The public housing at Heritage Park serves some of Raleigh’s lowest-income families. Any effort to expand housing opportunities must continue to ensure: *No loss of deeply subsidized units *A meaningful right to return for current residents *Continued income-based rents *Protection against displacement *Preservation of community identity
March 17, 2026 City Council Meetings
Highlights from the March 17 Work Session and Afternoon Session
Raleigh is Ignoring its own Environmental Policies
We are not opposed to greenways. We support connectivity and conservation. What we oppose is a decision that sacrifices a group of homeowners and their safety, violates conservation commitments and environmental protections, and increases costs—when less harmful alternatives exist.
CITY COUNCIL TO MIDTOWN: DROP DEAD
It turns out that at that January hearing when North Hills traffic was lightly discussed, the referral to the Transportation Committee – which had been previously promised to opponents – was not for any review of North Hills traffic at all but rather for the Six Forks Corridor Project – a dead project that would have provided little if any relief for traffic congestion in North Hills.
Place a moratorium on new zoning change requests
Raleigh’s current plans provide ample opportunity to reach Raleigh’s housing and density goals without threatening the character that makes Raleigh such a desirable address.
March 10 City Council Work Session and Public Comment Session
Work session focused on proposed 2026 housing and transportation bonds. Public comments focused on Homelessness and Affordable Housing, Greenways, Election issues, trees, and public safety
Supply-Side Affordability: A Harmful Fiction
Let’s move on from self-serving and counterproductive supply-side theories used to justify massive developments that are violating our neighborhoods and our adopted growth plans. Instead, let’s work with Wake County’s Affordable Housing Director toward solutions described in Livable Raleigh’s Affordability Agenda, to produce much more affordable housing and more growth according to our adopted plans.
March 9 City Council Pre-Budget Work Session
Staff considering changes to downtown parking rates, increases in stormwater and water rates for 2027.
Livable Raleigh’s Affordable Housing Agenda
Across the country, the price of housing of all kinds is increasing dramatically, with the result that people of lesser and moderate incomes are paying half or more of their disposable income for housing and utilities. In sum, we have an affordability problem.
Zoning consistency is foundational to confidence in land-use policy
The King Charles NCOD was adopted to preserve Raleigh’s first planned subdivision east of downtown. Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Districts are legislative commitments. They represent a balancing of growth and preservation through deliberate policy. Their credibility depends on predictability. If an overlay can be removed parcel-by-parcel when redevelopment pressure rises, its long-term stability becomes uncertain.