Community Voices – Livable Raleigh

Blog July 29, 2020

UpZoning 102: Making Your Community’s Voices Heard

Based on the collaboration of neighbors facing the upzoning Z-41-19 near Shelley Lake Park, here are 7 Actions developed by WeLoveShelleyLake that you can implement to make your collective voice known to city leadership and advocate for responsible, equitable development of our…

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Fair Housing Attorney: Baldwin Tramples Truth about Equity and Housing Bond

July 25, 2020

Some people wouldn’t know what equity looked like if it walked up to them and slapped the mask off their face. Equity is not a word we just toss around in the air because it sounds good. Equity is about ensuring fairness…

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Melton flip-flop

July 18, 2020

Let’s be very clear. There is one and only one reason the council abolished CACs. They wanted to eliminate the independent voices of citizens involved in rezoning cases as payment to the developers who paid for their campaigns.

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Delivering for Barnhill

July 16, 2020

Hillsborough-Wade CAC Chair Donna Bailey spoke at the July 7 Raleigh City Council meeting on Mayor Baldwin’s conflicts of interest.

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Raleigh’s Leaders’ Moment to Listen

July 6, 2020

Raleigh is at a pivotal moment, a moment where leaders must listen. For a city that has received so much praise for its quality of life as a great place to live, work, and raise a family, Raleigh’s leadership is being questioned…

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Citizens Speak Out: When Council Silenced the CACs, Black Communities Suffered Most

June 7, 2020

The son of one of Raleigh’s first Black City Councilors speaks out against gentrification in Raleigh. He says this Council’s abolition of CACs “leaves Raleigh’s heart open to knives that will cut neighborhoods and communities up”.

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I helped Mayor Clarence Lightner create the CACs. Why is the current City Council so unwilling to listen to citizens?

June 5, 2020

“The lack of serious communication in the past few days is also symptomatic of an unwillingness to listen.” — Henry Sarnoff, Prof. Emeritus, NCSU

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Pave Paradise

June 1, 2020

Midtown Raleigh resident Larry Helfant recently emailed the Raleigh City Council to share his concerns about a rezoning (Z-41-19) near Shelley Lake. The Public Hearing is June 2nd. Apparently the City Council plans to go ahead with public hearings and other business…

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Wanda Gilbert-Coker: We Are Sick and Tired of City Council’s White Privilege

May 15, 2020

The network of CACs benefited the Black community. It was an opportunity for Black people to voice their concerns on City issues. Also, it empowered the Black community to organize against gentrification. This is why it was dismantled.

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Good news! Neighbors are helping neighbors.

March 21, 2020

A nice and unexpected thing happened to me yesterday. A neighbor down the block stopped by to thank me for sharing some of our home cooked meals with him these past few weeks. As a thank you, the neighbor gave us two…

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