Highlights from the March 4, 2025 Council meetings
Make sure they fund the things that matter
Attending the city’s budget listening sessions was more informative than just how the budget is created. It showed people have a lot to say. They have a lot they care about. Of these things, the 3 that kept coming up were Affordable Housing, Transportation, and Public Safety.
June 18 City Council Meetings
Highlights from June 18 Council work session and afternoon session
June 11 City Council Afternoon Session and Public Comments
Highlights from Work Session on Downtown and from Public Comments
May 7, 2024 City Council Meetings
Highlights from May 7 Afternoon and Evening council meetings.
Your tax dollars NOT at work
Seven years ago (2017) the citizens of Raleigh overwhelmingly approved a $206 million transportation bond to make improvements to 16 roads. How are those projects coming along now that seven years have gone by? Why aren’t Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin and the rest of Council providing any oversight to get our much needed road improvements done?
February 20, 2024 City Council Meetings
HIGHLIGHTS At work session staff outlined plan for adopting a new comprehensive plan. A robust community engagement process is proposed. Hopefully they will include presentations to CACs. Comprehensive Plan Amendment CP-4-23: Downtown Transition Areas...
New Bern TOD – Redo the map – apply it strategically
On January 30th, City Council should vote against the current rezoning case and send City Planners back to the drawing board to redo the map. Wide support of the TOD can be accomplished by strategically applying it to commercial properties and open lots. You cannot reduce the displacement pressure on the existing neighborhoods when you include those very neighborhoods in the TOD!
Video from our New Bern Ave Forum is Available NOW!
Video from our New Bern Avenue Public Forum is available! If you weren’t able to attend, you can watch the video here NOW!
Locals gather to hear Community Leaders discuss mass upzoning plans for New Bern Ave
An overflow crowd turned out Sunday afternoon for Livable Raleigh’s public forum to discuss a proposed upzoning of more than 700 properties along the New Bern Avenue corridor. The resounding message was to ask City Council to deny the rezoning request (Z-92-22) and to put the TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) into committee for modifications. Panelists and audience members alike expressed concern about the displacement of an entire minority community. Attendees were encouraged to attend the upcoming public hearing on January 30 at 7pm at the Raleigh Municipal Building.