Highlights from the November 21, 2023 Work Session and Afternoon Session
City Council Meetings – November 7, 2023
Highlights from November 7, 2023 City Council Meeting
New Bern BRT: Bait & Switch or Just Action?
In 2017, ‘The Color of Law’ landed like a bombshell in progressive housing policy circles. In Raleigh, powerful development interests saw the opportunity to adopt — some would say co-opt — Richard Rothstein’s anti-segregation message by promoting pro-density zoning rules that not only lifted exclusionary zoning rules, but went much further. By 2020, a new alliance of developer money, self-righteous Council aspirants and their white privileged adherents provided the lubrication to fast track pro-density zoning proposals. Novice Councilors were assured that pesky public input needn’t impede this sweet deal to meld profits and equity.
October 17, 2023 City Council Meetings
Highlights from October 17 work session and afternoon session
October 3, 2023 City Council Meeting Highlights
Highlights from the October 3, 2023 City Council Afternoon and Evening Meetings
September 19, 2023 Raleigh City Council Meetings
Highlights from the September 19 City Council Work Session and Afternoon Session
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
Highlights from September 5 Council Meetings
City Council August 15, 2022
Highlights from work session and afternoon session
Actions Speak Louder than words
Actions speak louder than words, and the action city council took on the Shaw University was one that allows religious discrimination to continue, and the enabling of an administration looking to avoid the consequences of their own actions. Government is supposed to protect the community, not to create investment opportunities for the wealthy. And Raleigh City Council chose the latter. It’s a disgrace to democracy.
Councilor Harrison reverses course on making decisions based on policy
Councilor Harrison parted ways with the other three new members of Raleigh’s City Council (Black, Patton and Jones). The group usually forms a coalition that is more skeptical of intense development outside the Central Business District and close to established neighborhoods. Instead Harrison provided the swing vote for the pro-developer faction of Council and voted to approve the controversial rezoning of Shaw University. Minutes after being instructed by the City Attorney that this case is a LAND-USE decision, Harrison tossed out the land-use policies that should have guided her decision and based her decision on an irrelevant point about the Prince Hall Overlay District.