The Community wants to work with Council — please let us!

The Community wants to work with Council — please let us!

RCAC Chair Christina Jones spoke at the January 18 City Council meeting: The Raleigh Citizens Advisory Council is made up of all Active CAC Leadership teams and meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month on ZOOM.  Council members are always invited to attend and...

January 16 2022 Letter to the Editor of the News & Observer

January 16 2022 Letter to the Editor of the News & Observer

RALEIGH GROWTH The writer is former chair of the Raleigh Planning Commission In his Jan. 10 column, Ned Barnett argues that leaving growth management solutions to localities worsens the problems associated with rapid growth. An understatement for sure. Click on image...

A New Year’s Resolution: Engage with us! Negotiate for us!

A New Year’s Resolution: Engage with us! Negotiate for us!

Dear Mayor and City Council, As we start a new year, it is typical to make resolutions for self-betterment and better times in the upcoming year. I am no different. However my resolutions are for the Mayor and Council as we move forward in 2022. On behalf of the...

City Council, Community Engagement and the Code of Conduct

City Council, Community Engagement and the Code of Conduct

Tim Niles, a founding member of Livable Raleigh, delivered the following remarks to City Council during Public Comments on January 4, 2022:210 days ago, in a secret plot, with no public notice, no public input and no public vote, you moved your election by eight...

The Rise of the Creative Class

The Rise of the Creative Class

Bob Geary, resident of District D, delivered the following remarks at the January 4, 2022 Raleigh City Council meeting:Good evening, Mayor and Council. “The Rise of the Creative Class” is a book I know that most of you, or maybe all of you, are familiar with. Richard...

Community Benefits are left “On the Table” in 2021. Why?

Community Benefits are left “On the Table” in 2021. Why?

Livable Raleigh Chair Susan Maruyama delivered the following remarks at the January 4, 2022 Raleigh City Council meeting:Madam Mayor and City Council, Please don’t leave a whole lot of good on the table in 2022 like you did in 2021. In 2021, you approved 96% of the...

District A Resident Presents a Redistricting Alternative

District A Resident Presents a Redistricting Alternative

Midtown Raleigh resident Larry Helfant recently sent the following email to City Staff and the members of the Study Group on Council Terms and Compensation who now have been tasked with advising on redrawing of districts required after the recent census. Preliminary...