May 19 City Council Meeting
Highlights from May 19 Raleigh City Council meeting, including information about a 1.7 cent property tax increase as well as various fee increases.
Livable Raleigh presents Affordable Housing Agenda to City Council
The city’s efforts to bridge the affordability gap have been swamped by the rise in housing costs and the teardowns of older, affordable homes. Two months ago, Livable Raleigh presented a plan to do better.
Mailbag – A concerned reader writes
A reader of our weekly newsletter, The Week Ahead, wrote with concerns about two items we recently published and we feel it’s important to address the concerns publicly so others can also see our response.
This did not feel like Engagement
We told you this would not work. And then you did it anyway. And what you installed was not just dismissive of our concerns, It was incomplete. You placed these bike lanes without clear roadway markings. No clear direction. No clear separation. Just confusion on a street where confusion can cost someone their life. So let’s call this what it is: That’s negligence.
May 12 City Council Meetings
Work Session covered Energy Usage. Public comments focused on Z-43-25 rezoning, trees, public safety, solid waste services, and bike lanes.
RCAC 2026 Retreat – Successful Milestone
Saturday, April 25, was another turning point for the CACs in Raleigh. For the first time in nearly 10 years, the Raleigh Citizens Advisory Council (RCAC) gathered for a spring retreat, a milestone in our mission to restore and revitalize the partnership between residents and City Hall.
Community Conversation about Affordable Housing
Join us for a community conversation about Affordable Housing
Response to the N&O ‘s characterization of a Growth War
The choice is not between density everywhere anywhere and slow growth. The answer lies in responsible growth.
May 5 City Council Meeting
Highlights from May 5 City Council meetings
Nicole Bennett, Former Planning Commission Chair – It’s Not Just a Rezoning
Why does “the greater good” so often require loss from the same communities? Why are the people who already rely on transit the ones most at risk of being displaced from it? What does it mean to build a transit corridor that the current riders might no longer be able to afford to live near? if the greater good keeps requiring that the same communities lose everything, perhaps we need to ask ourselves what “good” really means.