CACs could have easily promoted themselves, for free, on nextdoor.
Perhaps they mostly didn’t because the people who attended them liked that they felt exclusive and were wary of bringing in more voices for fear that those voices might express different opinions.
I just commented that on Stef’s post. I’m sure opening a can of worms.
Perhaps they ended the CAC’s because the people who had to listen to those voices were fearful that they might hear opinions that were really different from their own.
I saw plenty of posts on my nextdoor promoting CAC meetings. I just never attended because I always have other things going on. Like LIfe.
I believe you are exactly right.
Next Door is for property owners, and almost all of the new housing downtown is for renters. Do the people who live and work downtown not get a voice because they didn’t choose (or aren’t able) to buy a house?
Next Door is singularly responsible for keeping my elderly mother constantly in fear in her objectively safe neighborhood. I hate that platform.
Then don’t let her get the Ring doorbell/video feed either. I have it (and love it) but man, everyone who has it posts videos of strangers (sales people usually) coming to their door and they scream “Intruder! Danger!”
I can see that. God forbid someone walk to your door and knock on it.
Renters can join NextDoor too - the verification process is the same whether you’re a property owner or renter. (I’m a lead for Five Points)
Is that true for all areas? Because my neighborhood has houses/townhomes where the owners can get on, but also some apartment developments at the other end that do not have Next Door capabilities (last I checked).
I have membership and I’m a renter in downtown. I think it depends on the apartment.
Interesting. And I very well may be wrong, I just know what I remember when I signed up for my neighborhood.
In any event, 3/4 of my neighborhood barely uses NextDoor (if at all), and the idea is to make this more inclusive of everyone. Not surprising the Stef Mendel crowd would like the busybody people most active on NextDoor to be the population that is heard.
I wonder if $18,000 (the combined amount of $1,000 for each CAC given each year) could run a marketing campaign by a local marketing agency to advertise for all the CACs. That seems like a better use of the money than cookies and drinks.
Honestly you’re not missing a whole lot. 90% of nextdoor is just garbage. I do use it as you can stumble upon good used deals or even free stuff that people post. And I have used it a good bit to sell some stuff.
But aside from that it’s pretty much as described above. Nimby’s complaining about developments or people ready with pitchforks when a residents walks through the neighborhood barefoot (true story).
In a recent movie about a certain news network, there was a line about a perfect story being one that angered your grandfather and scared your grandmother. I’ll just leave that comment right here.
Yep, all you have to do is sign up and they’ll send you a postcard to your address with a verification code and then you just enter that code to confirm that you live at that address. In Five Points, 58% of all addresses in the neighborhood have a NextDoor account.
(Also for what it’s worth, I didn’t interpret them wanting the city to use NextDoor but just sarcastically implying that if the city is going to use NextDoor for communication purposes now, why didn’t they use NextDoor to promote CAC’s to begin with)
Side note but does anyone know who’s behind the Livable Raleigh page?
It’s either Stef Mendell or somebody she’s close to from what I can tell.
Funny how a lot of ideas about what the city “should” have been doing are coming up now rather than the pro-CAC diehards actually doing it in the last 10 years or so.
I’d presume two things: