Yep, Mary Black, and Zainab Balaoch both are literal examples of the anti-development extremism perpetrated by young millennial folks, some of them college students. One person told me in November 2022, he wouldn’t vote for Baldwin because she allows apartments to sit empty. Though like I said Baldwin has had it tougher than any other mayor implementing change here. But rent control can be a solution used to help alleviate that situation a lot of young folks don’t deep duce into why stuff like this happens they just head straight to the complaint button.
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Kids of parents living in historic single family housing near downtown will tend to have their parents’ NIMBY attitudes.
How can we reach out better to communicate YIMBY positions or to advance an urbanist agenda electorally? We need to do something.
The best way that I know of would be to do what they did for prop 8. Essentially go door-to-door and ask people in these neighborhoods some questions about it. However, it would take an equally experienced group that has been successful at this.
LMAO! As if she … has anything to do with that 
“Raleigh Mayor Mary Ann Baldwin signs illegal executive order demanding newly built apartments to sit empty, denies any further rental applications. More at 10.”
Big bingo; Nancy McFarlane kinda got lucky sitting as mayor for years and years while the true boom we’ve now seen only JUST begun… Baldwin took office when everything really started to explode, thus making her an easy scapegoat for all the growing pains that come with it, regardless of how well she’s helped manage said growth with her limited power.
Not legal per North Carolina State Law. Cities cannot supersede state laws AFAIK. Would some form of rent control (whether it be rental rate caps, or just a percentage limit on how much rental rates can be raised each year) be helpful? Very possibly. But per NC law, it can’t even be tried. Is what it is for now.
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It dangerous, how uneducated Gen Z and Millenials voters can be. This is why we just have to vote bigly (in the words of Trump) next year. Also, my generation can come together for the wrong reasons. Unless it’s not Johnathan Melton whoever is the next mayor if MAB decides not to run for reelection will have it harder because they have no experience on how to run the city. So people like Kristen Havilik, Terrence Ruth, and Megan Patton all of them really have nothing under their belt and all the talk they have been dishing out will bite them in the ass when they become overwhelmed in the office because they never had any day-to-day experience on what goes inside city hall.
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I highly suspect the majority of urbanist voters are millennials and zoomers. This is anecdotal comparing Raleigh’s reddit vs City Data attitudes, along with the average age of people who hang out in downtown.
It’s just jarring when you see NIMBYism to any degree in that cohort.
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But those folks are balanced out with those of us NOT in those cohorts that are on the “good guys” side.
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Back on the topic, really big news dropping, with hopefully an approval on Tuesday:
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Exactly. Gen z is overwhelmingly liberal and I’d assume have very little to do with any local elections since we’ve been of voting age. I know plenty of people my age interested in walkability and public transit but almost none of the folks older than me I know have any idea what urbanism is. I’d say nimbyism is much rarer the younger you go just based on my first hand experience and those are also the least likely generation to turn out in elections.
Yes I’m happy beware and know your enemies in the council the 4 amigos who could shoot this down.
The interesting hidden nugget in all of this is the potential approval of the $ for plans to expand the convention center and move Red Hat amphitheater - embedded in the same approval of tourism tax funds
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Yep, and a 4000 seat multipurpose arena in Cary.
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Is the Cary one the South Hills development that has bounced around for awhile?
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Looks like it from the more detailed article
Sounds like they already have $60 million in the bank for it and will get $5 million per year for 25 years? If that’s the case I would hope they get building ASAP, because $60 million feels like a lot now for a small venue but if they mess around we’ll get into the cycle of “costs are too high now”
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Well it least I’ll happen hopefully the enemy 4 of the Raleigh City Council do sign on to it we could attract big events here.
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I mean I don’t see how this doesn’t pass. This money is obligated to be spent on stuff that attracts tourism, I.e. convention center and sporting arenas.
No one on the city council should be worried about shadows over PNC arena.
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i guess if the 5 year extortion pattern for a bigger stadium starts…yeah a fountain and money on amateur sports and parks.
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Why are Raleigh leaders are chirping about this bring MLB to Raleigh all I here is crickets.
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If they want another team, they need to go in attack mode RIGHT NOW. They need to straight up tell the brewers they are welcome here & push for that stadium. You could theoretically build it over at DTS, or maybe they’d be able to squeeze it in over by PNC. I’m sure the Canes would actually LOVE that because it would give investors all the more reason to fund the development & ensures the arena is kept up to date.
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Sounds like this is just a negotiating tactic the Brewers are using with Milwaukee. Probably a slim chance they will actually move. You never know though…
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