| # | Name | Comments | What is your neighborhood? | Would you support a moratorium on teardowns until interim standards are in place? |
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| 201 | Millie Massey | I support this petition. | Brentwood | 03 |
| 202 | mary leigh lewis | | university park | 01 |
| 203 | Jan Johnston | | Historic Glenwood-Brooklyn | 01 |
| 204 | David Johnston | | Historic Glenwood-Brooklyn | 01 |
| 205 | Joseph Huberman | I have lived in Boylan Heights for 30 years. I was opposed to the Historic District overlay when it was offered to our neighborhood. Now, ~20 years later I am very glad we are an historic district. I feel safe investing in my neighborhood knowing it will remain intact. Other older neighborhoods deserve similar protection that is appropriate for them. | Boylan Heights | 01 |
| 206 | Karen White | | Brentwood | 01 |
| 207 | Catherine Burton | | Adnerson Heights | 01 |
| 208 | Anonymous | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 209 | Dave Gates | Concerns
- Teardowns: sub-optimal sale prices for fixed income residents (increasing land value, decreasing house value)
- McMansions: impedes neighbor's views, invades privacy, etc.
- Economic: Increased taxes driving out fixed income residents further impacted by teardown concern noted above.
- How to prevent Renew Raleigh supporters from contaminating this (and similar) petition? The open-ended question on whether I support a moratorium on teardowns allows this. | Anderson Heights | 01 |
| 210 | Dale Cousins | I am concerned that the very reason I moved into the neighborhood 10 years ago is quickly disappearing as the desire to have large properties seems to overshadow the desire to maintain neighborhoods. I do waiver on whether this is inevitable and a step toward making all properties more valuable, but I hate the thought of two more large houses on my street taking every bit of sunlight that spills on my front yard. Please take this issue seriously and proceed thoughtfully. | Roanoke Park/Five Points | 03 |
| 211 | Craig McDuffie | | | 01 |
| 212 | Helen Tart | I believe residents have the right to live in the neighborhood they choose, and not have it altered beyond recognition with our any discussion or notice. | Capital Heights | 01 |
| 213 | Kathy Vander Gast | I live in the North Hills area and suspect that someone is profitting behind this "renew Program". There was nothing wrong with some of these houses and some "fast talkers" came in and scared someone | North Hils | 01 |
| 214 | Tim Ayers | | Caraleigh | 01 |
| 215 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 216 | Barron Blackman | | | 01 |
| 217 | Christopher Allen | We need to preserve and protect the character, history, and appearance of our city. | | 01 |
| 218 | Amanda Galati | | | 01 |
| 219 | Glenda Jeffries | | duxford | 01 |
| 220 | Sharon Kirmeyer | | Moore Square- downtown | 01 |
| 221 | Sig Hutchinson | We need standards to allow for the type of infill that benefits us all. | | 02 |
| 222 | Larry McBennett | The infill debate in Raleigh is a struggle between homeowners who believe that people who build new homes or renovate existing homes in established neighborhoods should respect their neighbors and homeowners to whom the impact of their own construction on their neighbors is of no consequence. | Anderson Heights | 01 |
| 223 | Anonymous | Personally, I think there should be a moratorium on spec homes altogether. What a waste, to clear land, build a cheaply made cookie-cutter house, ruin the look and feel of a neighborhood, alienate neighbors with a monstrosity that literally casts a shadow over the next house, use much-needed drinking water for landscaping, all for an imaginary homeowner. "If you build it, they will come" should NOT be, and in my opinion IS NOT, an acceptable neighborhood planning approach. | University Park | 01 |
| 224 | Anonymous | | Historic Glenwood-Brooklyn | 03 |
| 225 | Gary Goodman | Before finding this web-site I have written numerous e-mails to News and Observer and to Phillip Miller with minimal response or none. I live in one of the neighborhoods where the tear down craze was prevalent until recently. This phenominon Is a very corrosive trend for sure. Your website documents the various reasons why very well but I would like to add another prospective.I believe they have over shot the market ,out pacing demand. Supply and demand was one of Mr. Millers arguments to me in one of his responses to an e-mail I sent to him via "info@renewraleigh.com" .Recently I put my home on the market in part to escape from this circus but we received so few offers that we discontinued. We were not asking any more than what other homes similar in size had sold for not long before. The developers stopped buying homes for tear downs when the economy tanked last year, it has only been getting worse since and now outsiders wishing to move into this area have dwindled. The developers were buying so many homes when the market was hot that other potential buyers could not get a foot in edge wise. We did not realize the problem until houses new and old stopped selling. I can't even escape their ruin now even if I wanted to practically give my home away. By supporting a moratorium I believe that when the economy does pick up again that I will have a better chance to sell my home because the supply of available homes from the new homes that replaced the tear downs and pricing will not be so out of balance because of developers competing with individuals and families to purchase property. | Budleigh | 01 |
| 226 | Kenneth Metzger | I believe that only if a house is inhabitable should it be torn down. The current trend is simply noit sustainable. There is too much waste in the destruction of a perfectly good home.
Each neighborhood should also have its own standards of maximize size, footage, and percent of land built on. | Idlewild | 01 |
| 227 | Kevin Nonnenmacher | I am tired of seeing all the affordable rental units razed some some speculator can build a giant house that no one can afford. | Gorman St | 01 |
| 228 | Mary-Owens Fitzgerald | I support the rights of individual citizens regarding their property, but I do not think developers should be allowed to build spec houses in established neighborhoods. | Hayes Barton | 01 |
| 229 | Frank Hielemq | | Hayes Barton | 03 |
| 230 | Nancy D Stewart | | Bloomsbury park | 01 |
| 231 | David E. Stewart | | Bloomsbury park | 01 |
| 232 | Patricia WItt | In particular, I feel that preserving the amount of land surrounding the individual houses is important to preserving the character of a neighborhood. | Hayes Barton | 01 |
| 233 | Kate Cushman | Please take these concerns seriously. It is heartbreaking to see the unique character of neighborhoods changing in to faceless McMansions. | Hayes Barton | 01 |
| 234 | Lorraine R. Blake | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 235 | Jaci Field | | Hayes-Barton | 03 |
| 236 | Anonymous | Raleigh has already lost so much of its historic housing stock and it's time to stem this tide. With a nationally known School of Design in our midst, we should be a center of sound growth and design, not the center of McMansion evil. | Highland Gardens | 01 |
| 237 | Lucinda Thrall | The change in our neighborhood over the past 2-3 years has been painful to see. We're loosing the charm and character that makes our neighborhood so appealing. | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 238 | Anonymous | I support this petition | | 01 |
| 239 | Anonymous | | Oakwood | 01 |
| 240 | Robert Lambert | | | 01 |
| 241 | Katrina Neville | | Boylan Heights | 01 |
| 242 | Christina Harvey | | Brentwood | 03 |
| 243 | Michael Monahan | | Anderson Heights | 03 |
| 244 | Anonymous | | | |
| 245 | Thad Mann | If a Homeowners association says you cannot paint your house green and cover your yard with junk cars, why can't raleigh say you cannot take up more than 80% of your lot with house? And what happens as these huge houses are affected by the housing market crunch. Are we to have neighborhoods where large new houses sit empty, because no one can afford them anymore? We will never get those trees and lots back. PLease learn a lesson from what is happening in pther places. We are not immune, just delayed. The crunch is coming. | Falls Church | 01 |
| 246 | Clare Bass | | Sunset Hills | 01 |
| 247 | Lise Bireline | | Fairview Acres | 01 |
| 248 | Jean White | I like space between next door houses and in front and back of my home. A McMansion would be out of place in this neighborhood as it obviously is in the unfortunate sections inside the Belt Line where it is a hulking bully. I think the people who buy them would quickly begin to feel out of place. | Starmount | 01 |
| 249 | dave reaves | Come on, these new, giant houses are ugly. Raleigh is a unique Southern city and it's character should be preserved. Granted, it's not as historic as, say, Savannah, GA but they would never tear down old houses and let huge, ugly mansions be built there. Raleigh has a ton of architectural gems from the '40s and '50s that are being thrown away. Please put a stop to this immediately! | Coley Forest North | 01 |
| 250 | Kim Hanchette | | North Hills | 01 |