At the March 1 public hearing to review and approve new District Maps for Raleigh's City Council, the City Attorney claimed Raleigh is not covered by Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and City Staff claimed that the Advocacy Groups who reviewed the proposed maps...
Jane Porter, Editor-In-Chief of INDYWeek, writes a daily email newsletter, INDY Daily. The March 4, 2022 edition takes on Raleigh's City Council for their most recent undemocratic decision. She asks that we share the newsletter with our friends. So, we reprint it...
Tim Niles, a founding member of Livable Raleigh, delivered the following remarks to City Council during Public Comments on March 1, 2022:When this council defunded the CACs, you promised a new, REVOLUTIONARY, engagement system. Last Friday's Planning Commission...
Highlights TC-12-21 regarding Accessory Commercial Units has been referred back to Economic Development & Innovation Committee and they hope to report back to Council in April/May timeframe Mayor Baldwin wants to reinstate the requirement for both public comment...
The Raleigh City Council decided at its last meeting on February 15th to return to in-person meetings, beginning in March. At this same meeting, a couple of Raleigh residents spoke before the Council urging them to continue offering residents the option of...
Lisa Hughet recently sent the following email to Raleigh City Council. Lisa has lived in Raleigh for nearly 30 years and says "my activism really kicked into high gear during the pandemic. Ironically, coinciding with a new City Council who appears not to have the...
Livable Raleigh held an “Open Mic” night on Tuesday, February 15. Sixty plus Raleigh community members joined us to discuss topics ranging from Affordable Housing to Zoning, the Environment to CACs, and upcoming elections to the undue influence of developers on the...
It’s been two years since the Raleigh City Council voted to abolish City support of CACs (Citizen Advisory Councils). They promised to replace them with a much improved community engagement system. After two years, that still hasn’t happened. Why the slow progress?
Mayor Baldwin and her City Council majority selected one of three options presented to them for new election district lines without any public discussion of the merits of those three options. They refused to provide the public with any reasoning for their decision....
The City's online survey collecting your opinions of the recommendations of the Study Group on City Councils Terms and Compensation has completed and we have the results for you here. The following are each of the survey questions and the results of those who agreed...