Raleigh also doesn’t control the water for Holly Springs, Fuquay Varina, and Morrisville. Every city in Wake to include Raleigh does non contiguous annexations fairly regularly.
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Anyone know anything about the status of these bills? The day after they were introduced they were were all referred to the “Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate” and there has been no status update since March (example). Does that mean they are dead?
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Read this about “crossover”: Which Bills Have Made It Through “Crossover”? - North Carolina Legislative Library - North Carolina General Assembly
That said, there are tactics to bypass crossover by stuffing the provisions of a bill that didn’t cross over into a bill that did.
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Thanks for the hard work on this!
The DRA typically reports the population within 1 mile. My guess is that they are using Capitol Square as the center of that imaginary 1 mile radius circle. The problem is that the 1 miles radius goes beyond downtown proper and is measuring 3.14 square miles of land instead of downtown’s 1.18 square miles within its official boundary. That’s nearly 3X the land area of the official downtown boundary, and it includes a lot of SFHs. For context, that circle covers Central Prison, St. Mary’s College, the western half of Forest Park, the parking lot of Broughton High School, the Glenwood-Brooklyn neighborhood, Oakwood (including the cemetery), and much of the SFH neighborhoods on the near east side.
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This whole article is dumb and filled with typos, with weird unexplained comments like having affordable housing creates segregation, or that there might be too many cars driving on 70 near Brier Creek for this one family to deal with. But I love that the mayor of Durham is just like, yeah it’s part of living in a growing city. Womp womp.
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It’s difficult to shed a tear for someone who owns 30 acres in that location. Their land will only increase in value.
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"The Stewart Family has lived on a 30-acre plot of land for decades. It’s quiet and peaceful, even though the busy Brier Creek shopping center is right up the road.
James Stewart III says his parents purchased the lot and cleared it themselves."
Must be nice to have 30 acres handed to you by your parents and then bitch and moan when *gasp other people might be living nearby you, soon.
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He clearly hasn’t learned about the shadow argument yet.
Yeah, I don’t feel sorry for folks who get huge inheritances of any kind.
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An insightful article about what happens to municipalities when they need funds:
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That’s one way of looking at it.
Another way of looking at it is that dense inner-city development drives its own infrastructure expenses… mass transit, water and sewer, electrical distribution, etc. “Consuming valuable land” doesn’t matter here because family farms have been nearly run out of existence over the last 50 years. They’ve been replaced by Big Ag east of I-95. Open land in the counties that ring the Triangle is valuable only because people anticipate it will be developed as new suburbs. If there’s no expansion, then the supply and demand equation reverses.
I used to commute 75 minutes by train and Tube to the office in the UK. It was expensive, time-consuming, and often uncomfortable. Standing for 150 minutes a day, for example.
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250 minutes is 4 hours 10 minutes, not over 5 hours. If the infographic got that simple math wrong, what else could they be mistaken about? For instance, how many of those people have fast, beautiful, comfortable cars with great sound systems that they enjoy driving? And what if they drive very quickly and aggressively, and save 3 minutes each way? That’s literally 2 hours a week of saved time.
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when i used transit in raleigh…69 thru basically 86 or so, you learned how to do some very modest trip combining. oddly, i found that in the neighborhoods that i last lived (we did seek out transit areas as a necessity) longview, brentwood, hickory hollow, NR villas… a walk or bike ride for groceries was nice, you had ‘some’ restaurant choices also within walking or biking distance. and, sometimes…glidden paint, an ace hardware, etc. bank branches are everywhere it seems. maybe some of the newer, ‘eastern side of raleigh’ have less balanced modes? from google maps the neighborhood plans certainly seem different.
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The number of peopl working in an office is more like 84%
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That’s some crazy high single family construction, not a good sign for Raleigh-Cary.
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Agree, but I’m not sure how much of Holly Springs/Garner/Knightdale/Rolesville/WF/etc is included in the dude’s count.
Plus side, we are also 4th in multi-family.
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On the positive side, Raleigh was 4th in multifamily permitting rate.
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It’s the entirety of the Raleigh-Cary MSA.
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Need to get more radical about reducing new single family and increasing new multi.
Much more of this growth should be channeled into urban neighborhoods. It is such a wasted opportunity. The infrastructure already can’t handle the sprawl we have in outer wake county.