Executive Director of WakeUP Wake County received the Women in Transportation (WTS) Triangle Chapter 2011 Woman of the Year Award: “Ms. Rindge is Executive Director of WakeUP Wake County, a growing grassroots non-profit organization. WakeUP focuses on transit, water quality, land use and schools. In this work she has raised …
The City of Raleigh invites you to participate in the first phase of the project’s public comment period from April 6, 2011 through June 6, 2011 for the “Public Review Draft of the Unified Development Ordinance”. Raleigh’s New Code aims to streamline the approval process for compact, high quality development …
Please help spread the word about the UDO. The schedule has only allocated two months for the public’s review of the initial draft of the UDO. Over the last 10 months, the City of Raleigh, several outside consultants and a UDO Advisory Group have been working on an initial draft …
Over the past decade and then some, Raleigh, North Carolina, has piled up a litany of placements at the top of livability lists. The city has been called the best place to reside, work, play, start a small business and relocate. The result: Raleigh’s population has grown faster than nearly …
The (Raleigh City) council is moving toward a bond issue of an undetermined size to allow for “people-friendly” projects including city-financed sidewalks and greenways, Meeker said… …Meeker did not ask that a half-cent sales tax increase for mass transit be added to the ballot this fall, but said afterward that …
75 more people each day. That adds up to a whopping 43.5% growth rate for Wake County this past decade. New census data confirms what our communities know is true – that we’re growing faster than national averages, and we’re experiencing the challenges of growth every day — from traffic …
cording to census data released March 2, 2011, North Carolina’s suburbs and urban areas experienced unprecedented growth rates, particularly in Wake County. A significant portion of newcomers to NC were senior in age, including retirees, and were more ethnically and racially diverse: Despite the bursting of the dot.com bubble in …
Wake County Commissioners have decided to delay a voter referendum planned this fall for a half-cent sales tax that would fund new transit – light rail, commuter rail, and bus improvements throughout Wake County. “It’s not going to be this fall because there is no plan yet,” Tony Gurley of …
