Can you imagine if council took the Hayes Barton NIMBYs at their word and addressed their “concerns” by upzoning that lot in question and required it to be all affordable housing without parking so the new residents were walking all over the neighborhood to get to and fro?
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The best part was a significant portion of them leaving immediately before the agenda item which was affordable housing allocation funds from the federal government 
they really do care so much about affordable housing that they leave before the agenda item literally on the topic.
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Who the hell are these people?? And LOL at the “(CACs held developers accountable)” oh really now?? They did??? And OMG there was an increase in City Taxes during a time when more people than ever have been moving to the city? NO WAY! This shit is so desperate.
Literally all old white people LMAO (ok fine, there’s a single black woman and (her?) two kids - hope they’re someone there’s kids hahaha)
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She doesn’t seem so bad, decent points brought up on the issues side, and good history of Gov’t experience. Touch to argue against her as a good candidate.
Besides the Livable Raleigh endorsement 
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I do just want to point out that it’s pretty insane that Livable Raleigh is endorsing 3 candidates for At-Large. That’s a huge mistake and might absolutely be why they lose in the At-Large election.
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Honestly it’s the virtue signaling that gets me every time. God knows these people who showed up last night to ‘protest’ outside for sure wouldn’t want them to build a humongous affordable housing building in THEIR neighborhood.
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Of course not. They just want large single family mansions built, and only those that architecturally fit according to their taste. Everything else they say is totally virtue signaling and grievance.
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Not sure if people are keeping up with the Twitters/etc. of Council candidates, but I stumbled upon Jane Harrison’s, and it is, in my opinion, very alarming w/r/t her stances on development, growth, and how to achieve affordability. Perhaps not surprising coming from someone with the Livable endorsement, but like…Stef Mendell 2.0 over here.
And since we’re trying to keep the vibes positive on here, I just took a gander at Megan Patton (District B’s) website. She is endorsed by Livable Raleigh, but I found little to argue with on her page. I am a District B resident, so I’m considering reaching out to her for more clarity on her platform. If and when I do, you’ll be the first to know on here.
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Seems more Crowder than Mendell…fine line, but one worth stating.
My sense is the pendulum swing against the dropped hammer on the CACs without a real functioning alternate plan is likely coming. Especially coupled with the recent rampant changes to zoning code and the loss of character issue. These are things that galvanize people.
There’s going to need to be a new quorum around smart growth and smart engagement to yield what the city needs.
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When I moved here, I was told that Council always swung between extremes from election to election, so it would just be a continuation of the trend. I have to believe the largest constituency of the city wants a pro-growth Council but perhaps one that doesn’t move at lightning speed like the current one does.
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My biggest concern, truly, is that only about half of our councilors in any one cycle really even know how city process works to get things get built — we may not get a council of No but you sure might get a council of Derp, ‘what are we doing’, blowing in the wind from every lightning rod situation to the next without understanding of what can and can’t be done to affect the needed outcome.
What I feel we need now are nuanced councilors who can work through the tricky context of where we are in the city’s growth track. MAB rubs people the wrong way but she asks good questions to poke and prod things to progress. Melton seems to have the gut and the sense for it…Branch has a working knowledge and approach that seems to walk the line. From there, it’s gonna be yahtzee…
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I think I share this same view/concern. I kind of want to see candidates who aren’t showing up at meetings ranting on Tuesday nights but instead are actually out there in the fields we need to address the problems we have.
Do we have a housing issue? Yes, ok let’s elect people who work in housing, probably need them to know laws at the local and state level.
Same could be said with public safety, transit, business, etc. I’m just not sure neighborhood “freedom fighters” are going to cut it anymore now that Raleigh is the size we are. 
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I want this to be a thing now lol. Not an actual council, just the term. Lol
I don’t know that the general public cares about any of the issues that get brought up, but they likely also don’t vote. So who knows what November will bring.
I also think it’s laughable that these brigades of “concerned citizens” think the building growth is happening so quickly. I’ve been here 13 years and it is a snail moving in molasses pacing. I was hopeful for a lot more but this pandemic, supply chain, labor shortage, inflation, recession ongoing issue of the week is killing most of this momentum as I see it. If we had every rezoned and proposed project actually underway right now, I would at least see where these Nimbys are coming from, while still disagreeing wholeheartedly about our visions for this city. But we’re not even close to that, so give me a break.
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everyone messes with population, i get it…2009 405,197 and 2020 510,175. i assume this is citylimts and not county to? not sure. 105k in 9 years seems to me significant. not so? https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/PopulationAndCitySize.pdf
The first item on that list sure sounds like it’s prop 13 (CA) sort of language that assures that those with the most equity in their homes also pay the least property taxes. I am NOT for that at all. This will benefit the likes of those wealthy Hayes Barton NIMBYs who’ve been there long enough to realize millions in increased property values.
I would, however, support lower property taxes for seniors living on fixed incomes…those that are truly struggling.
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We’ve looked at that link many times. It’s about 10 years old and isn’t accurate for that ending population. It was just an estimate that the annexation laws passed 10 years ago by the GA squashed. Raleigh is still well below 500K by the latest Census estimate.