| # | Name | Comments | What is your neighborhood? | Would you support a moratorium on teardowns until interim standards are in place? |
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| 151 | gina roberts | Please give this matter your utmost regard. Teardowns are creating an even wider divide between the haves and have nots in our city. The grave economic impact on housing is equally matched with the poor regard for the environment which is demonstrated when we replace modest homes with McMansions requiring the destruction of land and trees, an increase in light pollution, and the exhaustion of other resources as these larger scale homes are filled up with material goods that have also had a lasting impact on our environment. PLEASE STOP THIS PRACTICE NOW! THere are many places where those who seek to build a mega mansion without land or trees can locate themselves. Let them go there. Once these quaint, older neighborhoods with mostly modest homes are demolished, they cannot be replaced. Thank you. | | 01 |
| 152 | Carrie Knowles | As Raleigh continues to grow, we must continue to safeguard the physical as well as the cultural environment of this interesting city. | Boylan Heights | 01 |
| 153 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 154 | Mary Anne Howard | I am concerned about the impact of increasing our land fills with debris from the tear downs as well as being concern for building new homes within some scale of the neighborhood. I realize this is a sensitve issue on many fronts, but would like to some covenants/ or regulations be implemented, especially concerning our landfills. | warehouse district downtown Raleigh | 01 |
| 155 | Anonymous | | Downtown, Southeast Raleigh | 03 |
| 156 | Elizabeth Montague | | Five Points | 01 |
| 157 | Anonymous | I heartily support this petition. | Brookhaven | 01 |
| 158 | Katherine Savage | | | 01 |
| 159 | Virginia Emigh | | University Heights? | 01 |
| 160 | Greg | | Five Points | 01 |
| 161 | Stephanie Bass | There has to be a reasonable way for neighborhoods to maintain the intimacy of smaller houses and softness of older trees and shrubs, while allowing people to make an appropriate return on their property. Have you thought about permitting the buyout of development rights to property? It's being done in some cities. | University Park | 01 |
| 162 | Memory F. Mitchell | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 163 | Anonymous | Susan Susanka, in The Not So Big House, discusses "starter castles" as houses designed to impress rather than nurture. Our present, older, often historic, neighborhoods are so popular because their very characteristics are nurturing. The post teardown McMansions now being imposed upon the present built landscape in these neighborhoods is diminishing the soulful quality for the veneer. Sustainability of these older neighborhoods, by renovation rather than teardowns by developers, would use fewer raw materials and reinforce North Carolina's 1893 motto, Esse Quam Videri, To Be, Rather than to Seem. Let us continue to nurture rather than to impress. | Bloomsbury | 01 |
| 164 | Lisa Finaldi | | Oakwood | 01 |
| 165 | Thruman Grove | | Anderson Heights | 01 |
| 166 | Rachael Wooten | I want to be sure I've signed. I am deeply concerned about the impact of this trend on my neighborhood. | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 167 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 168 | Jennie Malcolm | | Mordecai | 01 |
| 169 | Nell Joslin | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 170 | Philip Letsinger | Residential neighborhoods that are not zoned at the existing use and density are the most vulnerable to inappropriate redevelopment and need immediate protection related to use and setbacks. Most homeowners assume their homes and immediate neighborhoods will remain in their desirable condition and are protected from intrusive changes. The City has a responsibility to provide basic protection to residents and their neighborhoods either through zoning or infill standards. | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 171 | Anonymous | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 172 | Ellen Kinsinger | Tree Loss and sediment runoff is also a big issue with tear-downs and lots that are subdivided. | Country Club Hills | 03 |
| 173 | Margaret Link | | Ridge Road | 01 |
| 174 | Anonymous | | Cameron Village | 01 |
| 175 | Joanie Kennedy | | | 01 |
| 176 | Judy Smith | Please stop the madness. Our neighborhood has already suffered a significant loss of its original character with the frenzied building of wildly out- of- proportion McMansions that loom large over older, established homes in this community. Their developers demonstrate little concern for maintaining any cohesiveness of design or scale in keeping with the neighborhood. Retired neighbors on fixed incomes, state and university employees, and others with modest incomes that make up this neigborhood are unable to keep up with the already soaring property taxes being created with these ostentatious, energy sucking, look-at-me structures. Please put a freeze on teardowns and issuing permits for more commercial development of our neighborhoods until this issue can be studied fully.
Thank you for all you do for the city of Raleigh.
Respectfully yours,
Judy Smith
1728 Nottingham Road | Budleigh | 01 |
| 177 | melinda fine | | Cameron Village | 01 |
| 178 | Marni Vinton | | Boylan Heights | 01 |
| 179 | Jon Zellweger | | Capital Heights/Oakwood Park | 01 |
| 180 | MICHI VOJTA | | | 01 |
| 181 | Henry Newell | In the 21st century, why do we continue to tear down 20th century houses and replace them with enormous ones that look like they're from the 19th century? | halifax court | 01 |
| 182 | Judy McConnell | | Hayes-Barton | 01 |
| 183 | Bill Beardall | When I saw the first renewraleigh signs go up I got excited until I went to their website. Now when I see them, I see a large yellow bulldozer lumbering through the neighborhood "renewing" it. I mean, really, these houses are old so let's tear them down and build anew. 'Anew' ...read replace the old with large, ugly brick or brick and stone stationary Humvees/ McMansions...as in super-sized, bloated, out of place, out of scale, in your face houses (at least the humvees have a purpose). They are built without any consideration for the neighborhood, its style and character, disdainful of the people who have live there, and have for quite some time. To the best of my knowledge they recycle little and waste water, create erosion problems and leave trash and debris everywhere. I have seen some infill done tastefully, attempting to fit in the neighborhoods but they are few. The time has come for the City, in light of their failure to stem the constant blanket of approval for anything the builders want to do, and in the midst of a record drought that our leaders still fail to acknowledge, to institute a moratorium on any building. Add my name to the "Stop the abuse of our city, its character and our remaining resources." | Budleigh | 01 |
| 184 | Will Hooker | | Pullen Park | |
| 185 | Kathy Foglia | | UPHA | 03 |
| 186 | Donna Bailey | Please support an Infill Study Task force to explore ways that will work for Raleigh's future. | University Park | 03 |
| 187 | Grace R Evans | | University Park | 01 |
| 188 | Lorilyn Bailey | "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone..." as the song goes. | Brentwood | 01 |
| 189 | merle & Charlie Stiles | Our neighborhood, Brentwood, could become
a healthy lovely neighborhood or it could quickly
go down hill if it is not nurtured in some way by
the laws and rules on the books to keep our community growing in the right dirction. | Brentwood | 01 |
| 190 | Terry Grunwald | | North Raleigh | 01 |
| 191 | Edward M Alderman | Developers are raping our city and raising our taxes to make themseves rich. They must be stopped! The present impact fees are only a tiny fraction of actual costs which taxpayers must bear. | Brentwood (since 64) | 01 |
| 192 | "David T Lee | The temporary, absentee property owners who do not live near by should not be alllowed to reshape a 40 year old neighborhood using the current zoning laws. The council must implement best practices four all of Raleign citizens. Adopt infill standards that are compatible with current neighborhoods and sound development practices. To continue to allow the current uncontrolled infill is short sighted
and unacceptable | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 193 | Kathryn DeTurk | I have lived in Raleigh my entire life and think that revitalization of older homes is paramount to the History of our City. | Brentwood | 01 |
| 194 | Stephen Schecter | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 195 | E. Terrell | I support this petition. | Cameron Park | |
| 196 | Mana Griffin | I support this petition | Brentwood | |
| 197 | Judy Perdue` | I support the petition | Brentwood | 01 |
| 198 | Christine Vandiver | | Wakefield | 01 |
| 199 | Elizabeth Lord | | Brentwood | 01 |
| 200 | Elizabeth Long | | | 01 |