Humm, what don’t we know, devil is in the details. You don’t get something for nothing from the govt, ever!
Who has seen this layer on iMaps?
- Planning and Development
- Raleigh Planning and Development
- Urban Form
- Raleigh Planning and Development
This shows Rapid Transit Corridors, Regional Rail corridors, BRT station planning, BRT corridors!
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More reading, oh my!
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Look at how much of East ITB is now in the “upzone”. Based on Missing Middle 2.0, these areas now qualify for greater density by nature of being in one of these transit walksheds.
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Curious to know what a “transit emphasis corridor” entails here. Durham is currently working on two (Holloway and Fayetteville), but it’s still not super clear what the design for those is or if Raleigh will be doing something similar to whatever they come up with.
From the comprehensive plan:
Transit Emphasis Corridors: These corridors are identified in the GoRaleigh 2040 Bus Development Plan or Wake County Transit Plan and programmed for a much higher level of bus service, including frequent buses, improved stop amenities, a more complete pedestrian network, and potentially traffic signal priority for transit. As these corridors often follow major streets, a hybrid approach to frontage is recommended.
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Thanks. Raleigh could be a very different city in about ten years if all of this goes through and works the way it’s supposed to. We could see significant drops in car ownership ITB.
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Sure hope so - my area is changing slowly as houses are redone and sold. Half of my neighborhood is in the frequent transit area and already has a mix of apartments and duplexes, most of which are starting to age. Most changes have been renovations, so hopefully when new developments start we get townhouses, taller apartments, or multiplexes, rather than another SFH taking up a whole lot. Already, the flipped SFHs are selling for way too much, I don’t even want to know what a new build would go for.
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Someway somehow by this definition once they build Wake Med next year even I’ll live in a 15-min umm town I guess! Haha
15 min walk to 2 elementary schools, urgent care, Publix, gas station, emergency room.
Hoping more and more new age suburbs go by the mixed use town center concept instead of just sprawl off existing roads and such.
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Terrific spot for mixed-use zoning. Kind of surprised it was residential given how busy that MLK/Rock Quarry intersection is: https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/1911
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https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/1911?u=samuel
Wrong link, I believe you’re referring to this rezoning?
It’s also at the intersection of two transit emphasis corridors. I hope they create something that really has an urban frontage.
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Hah, that’s what I get for being on DTR and a Texas football forum at the same time. Yes, fixed, thanks!
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More supply doesn’t increase costs, it decreases them.
Here’s a video explanation of the tax idea: Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03] - YouTube
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The point is that we have to stop the suburban development pattern. It squanders resources and operates at a net loss to cities in the long run 
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With the laws that were put in place 10 years ago that I have to believe were intended to punish cities by making annexation more difficult, it has actually shifted Raleigh’s focus to infill and redevelopment opportunities. Unfortunately, Raleigh can’t control what happens in its suburban communities. It can only take care of itself and position the city best for the future.
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I think Raleigh has a solid plan to not squander it’s resources in 1 sq mile. Much better in the long run to have several valuable and well resourced areas for all its citizens. Although not clustered together DTR, DTS, NH, GWS, Briar Creek are a collective in most peoples minds when thinking about Raleigh. DTR is just not the center that most people think of for a downtown core, that may change as it builds out. When I hear folks speak in groups they often talk about all these options because the DTR core does not fill the needs. It has almost become Raleigh’s identity. All good cities provide a nice pressure release around them as pure real city living is often challenging.
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I am all for creating as many nodes of dense, revenue productive districts within the city as possible. These sorts of districts are going to be important to the financial viability of the entire city going forward because wide swaths of low density within the city are not going to be unable to fund their own replacement infrastructure going forward. Right now, there is arguably only one other such district in the city (other than downtown) and that’s the greater North Hills area. That said, why would you use the word squander when referring to investing/developing the most revenue productive part of the city?
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Because it’s a big city that can produce so much more revenue if it takes advantage of the entire city, it would be nice to have no bad areas, every community has value and investment should be made across the board and not concentrate in 1 or 2 areas. No street left behind in the city, don’t squander our residents and talents in every crook and nanny of this great city. We all win, unless the revenue is sent to another silly war or country.
Speaking my language bro!!!
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I don’t think that anyone here only wants investment downtown, but it sure seems like there’s too many people in our largely suburban city that get butt hurt when there’s any focus on downtown; this is despite the fact that it’s the most financially productive part for the city coffers. We went through decade after decade of not paying much attention at all to downtown, and frankly, much of what’s happening downtown today is private development. Certainly there’s been public investment over time downtown but there’s also been tons of investment outside of downtown as well.
In my perfect world, the city would continue to encourage densifying nodes around the city like is happening at North Hills, and creating more places that have less dependency on cars.
In the end, we (public and private) have had to focus on paying attention to downtown because it was largely ignored for decades following WW2.
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