Yes. Yes you should.
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What are the pages there on in Nextdoor
…or any other city south of Manhattan.
On Nextdoor what page or group should I troll?
Don’t waste your time. Nextdoor is a social network app confined to your local nieghbohood and surrounding areas. It has some good parts like people post about lost pets or things. But most of it is either ‘community watch’ type posts with a good sprinkle of racial profiling, or NIMBY’s complaining about whatever rezoning.
There is not one specific group or page to trolls, as it’s geared to your neighborhood. But I’m there are plenty of NIMBY posts in any neighborhood these days.
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The scaaaaary rezoning at Clover Lane is going up for a public hearing on 1/24
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/2161?u=oakcityyimby
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317 E. Jones St… Am I mistaken or is this 4 bedroom house with a 4-unit apartment building attached to the other side of the garage?!? If so, wow and creative!
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Wow.
This submittal is more impressive than an architectural review submittal in a 3 plus million dollar neighborhood. Bravo to the team on this one. I really hope it passes as drawn.
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If that doesn’t get approval, then I don’t know what will. What a thorough package.
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On a vacant lot, on a block that’s 1/3 offices, on the downtown edge of Oakwood. It’s pretty much perfect.
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So we had the public hearing for the Clover Lane Apts, and so we had a bunch of attendees with signs from the neighborhood. My favorite was “Less Is More In Mordecai”. I forgot if it was sent to Safe, Vibrant, & Healthy Communities, or just deferred, but this neighborhood won’t be happy with any changes. The Mayor made the point, as she usually does (along with Melton), that this will be redeveloped regardless so this is our chance to get conditions we like, otherwise what they can build by-right (likely expensive townhomes) won’t make the neighborhood happy. Let’s see what comes out of it. Open points include discussions on affordability and parking mostly.
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I figured as much. The worst part is, the current situation is mostly a big ugly parking lot next to a busy road. It’s pretty isolated from the quiet parts of the neighborhood and that won’t change. It’s just aggressively anti-development for anti-development’s sake.
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Developer is a partner at Merge Capital, the Park City South people.
https://mergecap.com/who-we-are
Very different style than their big projects; kind of reminds me of Allison Ramsey’s style.
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Well they didn’t actually do anything with Park City South though. I think their most noteworthy project completed was the 10 Arros right? So this is somewhat in line with that.
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I think of them as the most prolific missing Middle building group in Raleigh at the point. They are building a duplex around the corner from me.
Public hearing for the Clover Lane development continued to 2/21. I’m sure that’s going to be edifying.
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/2193?u=oakcityyimby
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What has to be some of the very last undeveloped land in Historic Oakwood is up for sale at Watauga and Oakwood Blvd. What an opportunity for some lucky family (or two, since it can be split).
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We’d talked in the South Park thread about “screw you, got mine” houses that aggressively wall themselves off from their neighbors. Poor block-long Penn Street got two new ones.
One contemporary that’s a pretty normal “I don’t like, trust, or ever want to see my neighbors” statement.
And one extraordinarily bad traditional one - that anti-aircraft bunker window and blank wall on the front corner! The way it’s two stories taller than its neighbor (it’s feels so much more out of scale in person)! Pure “stay away, I hate you all.”
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Half expect to see armed guards on the roof of the first one.
That little window on the front of the second house is just 
. I have one on the side of my house that’s above my kitchen cabinets to let some light in, not to hide from the neighbors. But the front of the house? Yikes.
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