Anyone know what work is going on under the road here (right outside of Transfer Co)?
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Its probably Burial related
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Burialing the Transfer Co pipes?
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Water main replacement
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I had assumed it was just a plot to make it harder for me to visit on Saturday. It doesnât make sense that theyâve kept it up for several days afterwardsâŚ
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Doing most of Davie street will be most of the summer
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Iâd say that they are digging in the ground. 
My morning wake up shake up.
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They are going street by street and fixing the inadequate underground sewer system that cannot support the influx of new construction and residents.
We actually had an almost year long argument with the city to determine who was at fault when our house was built, regarding the âtie-inâ from the cityâs crappy pipes to ours. Every time a new house is built, look at the street directly in front of the property, nearly all have had the pavement ripped up with attempts to connect the two.
The flyer they delivered door-to-door on our street indicated it would last until the last week of May or maybe longer.
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This seems ridiculous to divide the home vertically, then allow it to sit for days on top of this Jenga block support system. The amount of hoops this developer is jumping through while also not having the land sold has to sting. Meanwhile Goodnights disappears like a fart in the wind.
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Big truck was there to move it a couple of days ago. Looks like it was still too unstable. Have no idea why they are trying to save this house. I see nothing special about it.
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Oh now I see bottom is gone . Maney they moved that part .
Because several neighbors were very vocal about their opposition towards this property being sold, so this was where they met in the middle, moving the house somewhere and continue using it towards affordable housing.
No matter how stupid or financially ass-backwards, this was basically an ultimatum, now if these same people only lived next door to Charlie Goodnight maybe then developers would have also been forced to do something creative.
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Honest question but how do neighbors not liking it to be sold have anything to do with this? Who was the previous owner?
The house is now Pooh-Bearing it.
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Unless Iâm mistaken the developer compiled purchasing 2 or 3 properties with a proposal to develop 10 town-homes with rear facing garages. Several neighbors voiced their displeasure with removing these affordable houses, several back and forth from the neighborhood conservation, planning commission etc. put conditions on the approval of the development if they moved the homes and continued their use as affordable housing. I think this area being within the Prince Hall District helped their standing to complain.
So technically it wasnât the selling of the properties but the the proposal to demo the homes and replace them with new town-homes. Because had the new owner decided to keep the homes exactly the same and continue being a landlord, no one would have raised any concerns.
Not a whole lot historical or architectural about these homes worth saving in my opinion.
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Seems like it would have been cheaper and easier for the developer to just make a few of the townhomes affordable? Reminds me of the Teardowns of Durham group which complains both about architecturally interesting homes and boring old homes which were cheaply built, low quality homes when they were first built. Age != quality.
The conundrum in society is that doing nothing to improve homes like this makes the landlord a slumlord. Doing something about them that improves their livability makes them unaffordable if the landlord passes the costs onto the renters. In order to keep the homes affordable and with a level of dignity, they would have to absorb the costs of improvements without passing those onto tenants. That doesnât seem very likely in a market driven economy. It would seem to me that if the city wanted to prioritize keeping the existing âaffordable housingâ but with improvements, theyâd make funds available for the upkeep: in effect a subsidy. However, even the city has other interests with regard to how productive these types properties are to them (as in tax value potential), and that theyâd be hard pressed to enter into that sort of arrangement.
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The city does offer these programs: Homeowner Rehab and Repair Program | Raleighnc.gov
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oh! historic district. I should have realized.