Mar 3, 2017 | CAC, City Council, Community Services, Neighborhoods, News, Raleigh Planning, Vision
By Clodagh Bastian – Raleigh’s Citizen Engagement Task Force is nearing its deadline for recommendations to City Council this month. The group’s mission is to flesh out what citizen engagement means and how community-municipality dialog can be improved, but one...
Feb 6, 2017 | CAC, City Council, Government, Neighborhoods, News, Vision
By Clodagh Bastian – What does citizen engagement mean? What forms does it take? How can it be inclusive and responsive? What roles do city council, staff and citizens play? Should information flow be primarily city-driven or two/multi-directional? Are all...
Jan 26, 2017 | Community Services, Economic Development, Raleigh Planning, Vision
By Karen Rindge – Rapid growth and urbanization in Wake County have brought opportunity, but have also affected land values and rents. A rising number families spend more than 30% of income on housing prompting growing concern about the need for housing that’s...
Mar 24, 2014 | Education, Events, Vision
Guest post by NC State Park Scholarships North Carolina State University’s Park Scholarships Class of 2014 will present the 15th annual William C. Friday Award to Mr. Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise...
Mar 10, 2014 | Innovation, Vision
Guest post by Mike Ingram Nothing makes a city or region more unique than its geography and topography—and its not unusual for these elements to become the focus–or identity–of an area. Western North Carolina: the Blue Ridge Mountains. North Carolina coast: the beach....
May 29, 2013 | Raleigh Planning, South West Raleigh, Vision
Your neighbors have some great ideas on the future for the South Saunders and South Wilmington corridors. In a pre-session exploring the boundary of the South Saunders and South Wilmington corridor study area, city planners worked side-by-side with citizen leaders to...
