Your posts should be a billboard of why we need the DTRCAC. ACTIVATION. INVOLVEMENT. I would bet you that most of the people there that voted are the same ones that voted the month before and the month before and the month before and the month before.
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The building has a Las Vegas-y look to it. I wonder how it will look lighted up. I like the curved glass too. Not sure we’ve seen any of that in Raleigh yet.
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The CACs have their place. It ideally allows the people in a community to interact with developers and for developers to hear the concerns of the community they are going to become a part of.
The issue with the CACs, in my opinion, is two fold. One they are highly restrictive by their nature. Sure they’re open to the public but only if you are physically able to attend. There should be more avenues for the information to be disseminated. The meetings don’t have to go but there should be ways for people to voice their approval or concern without having to show up to some random place on a random night. The second flaw is the vote. It’s a non binding vote and often gets portrayed as carrying the weight of the entire CAC. Additionally there is no nuance to one casting a Yes or No vote. Sometimes people have an objection to an aspect of a project but not to the project as a whole if their first concern is addressed. More often than not they’re going to vote No. A public commenting system and some sort of ranking system would be much better and much more illustrative for the developer, city and community.
Some sort of city wide web of electronic pages would do the trick maybe? … idk.
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These types of organizations attract people that want to tell everyone else how they should think. Only time will get anything close to real results is if there is some really hot divisive issue that attracts a lot of people. I’m sure the vast majority do not really care one way or another. People that attend to learn and listen to reason get fed up with the pushy ones that want to shout down anyone that does not agree with them and quite coming.
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Crazy good design. Build it. Holy smokes Raleigh is coming around.
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With these renderings, I can see that access to the SAL turntable is going to be significantly restricted from the tower. Especially with the level of excavation into he hillside proposed here. Trespass will definitely be difficult. 
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The renderings have massing for SmoHo phase 3.
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The incorporation of the old RR turntable is a nice move.
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SmoHO is that short for smutty hore. In case do not get the comment, I hate insider concatenation of names for places. If you are not one of the “insiders” often have not idea what they are talking about.
We have Google now tho for those people. 
Lol!! Well …we gotta make ours more famous! I think tho that everyone using it on here is just joking, so I doubt it’ll catch on.
Yeah, but ours would be SmoHo, not smoho.
I actually like SmoHo. It’s short, catchy and easy to remember because the two syllables rhyme.
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Well, it’s better than ‘santorum’
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I like SmoHo. How many New Yorkers say South Of Houston and Triangle Below Canal? One day there will be no warehouses in the “Warehouse District” but that will still be the name. I’m ok with that.
FINALLY! A building beyond just function! Looks great!
I’m just saying if you do not know what the shortcut means it’s useless. South Of Houston, Is that Austin, what’s that got to do with NY? Triangle Below Canal, is that something under a canal, a Bermuda triangle like thing where the mob goes to make bodies disappear?
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Are you saying that the whole world doesn’t know what ITB is??? gasp 
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Is it a baseball term? Inside The Ballpark
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Most acronyms require context…
SmoHo gets the job done but Smoky Hollow means more for now
SoHo and TriBeCa are recognized NYC hoods now but do most know what they mean or where that means? Context required…
ITB is forever, until you can’t afford it. Then you’re OTB. Maybe ITOB. If not out in the count(r)y…
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