| # | Name | Comments | What is your neighborhood? | Would you support a moratorium on teardowns until interim standards are in place? |
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| 251 | Anonymous | | 5 points | 01 |
| 252 | Myrick Howard | | Cameron Park | 01 |
| 253 | Maggie Bennett | | Five Points | 01 |
| 254 | May Winborne-Rice | I hate the mcmasions ruining nice neighborhoods for profit. If you are going to LIVE IN THE HOUSE, I fell like you can make a change, not big for profit | | 01 |
| 255 | David Heeter | Some standards are needed to insure that replacment or new houses benefit existing neighborhoods instead of harming their character, livability, and historical value. Many years ago the US Supreme Court upheld zoning to keep pigs out of the parlor and in the barnyard. Raleigh's existing neighborhoods need and deserve such protection. | Hayes Barton | 01 |
| 256 | Judy Packer | | | 01 |
| 257 | tina martin | | cameron park | 01 |
| 258 | ken barnes | | Cameron Park | 01 |
| 259 | Bebe Snyder | shame on the city council and government that's obviously full of developers and bankers hungry for "'mo money"...what happened to the integrity of this city. Brooks Ave has already been ruined...and Cantebury is close behind. Have you no pride? | Budleigh | 01 |
| 260 | Lucille Keenan | I support this petition and encourage limits on over-sized houses on too small lots in established neighborhoods. Too many of these new structures are introverted and box-like with no spaces that interact with the existing community (i.e. working porches). Once built, they forever change the fabric of the existing community in a negative manner. As another signer pointed out, there are plenty of new neighborhoods for these "McMansions," so lets keep our old neighborhoods intact. | Cameron Park | 01 |
| 261 | Robert E. Belknap | | Cameron Park | 01 |
| 262 | Jenny Harper | | South Park | 01 |
| 263 | Joanne Vandermast | | Hi Mount | 03 |
| 264 | J.M. Shields | The attempt to re-characterize our older neighborhoods in the manner proposed by developers and a few residents very much resembles the notorious "gentrification" projects in our cities over the last decades. In this case, however, rather than being subversive racism, it is subversive "classism" as well as ageism. In any case, it is greedy, shameful and wrong, and certainly NOT "green."
Further, the "Renew Raleigh" campaign is at best disingenous--more accurately it is outright deception. The saying "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure" applies. | Shelley Lake area | 01 |
| 265 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 266 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 267 | Pat Spearman | | West Raleigh | |
| 268 | Anonymous | | | 01 |
| 269 | Timothy W. Bradley | I'm a 3rd generation roofing contractor and have worked on many of the homes of the petitioners. I share most/all of the thoughts. I see first hand this disturbing trend. It's short-sighted and for the present. At last there is some level of community concern to at least alert the builders/property owners that it would be nice if they considered needs others than only their own. | Avent West | 03 |
| 270 | Anonymous | | Mountainbrook | 01 |
| 271 | Anonymous | | Lake Park | 01 |
| 272 | Susan Emmerson | | Fallon Park | 01 |
| 273 | Alison Stephens | | Roanoke Park | 01 |
| 274 | Sydney V. Lantz | | Lyon Park | 01 |
| 275 | Carol Ashcraft | I look forward to the new City Council's serious attention to this issue, which is destroying the uniqueness of Raleigh's most historic, oldest and finest neighborhoods. Some kind of regulatory guidance is definitely needed. | Hedingham, NE Raleigh | 01 |
| 276 | Anonymous | For those of us who live in older homes, we are being given the message that "regular joes" are no longer welcome. It's all about building big, forget the neighbors who were there first and now have to live in your shadow. | Sunset Hills/Budleigh | 01 |
| 277 | Anonymous | | Five Points | 01 |
| 278 | Starr Markham | | Mordecai | 01 |
| 279 | Merrilee & Ken Jacobson | Inappropriate infill is ruining the character of our historic neighborhood. We need help from the city with this issue before Historic Mordecai looks like any of the cookie cutter neighborhoods in Cary or North Raleigh. | Mordecai | 01 |
| 280 | Karen Bender | The inappropriate infill of oversized, characterless McMansions is ruining neighborhoods all over the area. We moved to our neighborhood to enjoy the historic heritage and diversity of the architecture and because we respected the history of our historic neighborhood and the people who built it. Every time an original house is torn down and replaced by this bland type of domicile, we are diminished. If a house is beyond repair, it should be replaced with a dwelling that is in the appropriate scale and size of neighboring dwellings. | Mordecai | 01 |
| 281 | michael mueller | maybe this will help slow things down:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1720049_1720050_1721656,00.html | roanoke park | 01 |
| 282 | Anonymous | As a resident of the Mordecai neighborhood for nearly 10 years, I've been pleased to see community members improve their homes with addition and renovation projects. I do not support, however, huge homes that are part of tear-down/in-fills that overwhelm neighboring homes and that do not fit the look, feel, and size of the existing community.
Please consider those remaining in the original homes and don't allow these massive homes to take over the original community feel! | Mordecai | 01 |
| 283 | Shane Trahan | | Mordecai | 01 |
| 284 | Sabine French | I encourage all city council members and anyone else who is curious to come over to Iredell St in Hayes Barton and view the new house that has been nicknamed The Jutting Protuberance (you'll know it). My apologies if any of you live in it, but it is the Poster child for this issue-- it is so out of scale.
I know people who won't even walk down that street anymore so that they won't have to look at it. Sad, but true. | Hayes Barton | 03 |
| 285 | Karen Tam | | Oakwood | 01 |
| 286 | Nick Sadler | | Oakdale | 01 |
| 287 | Kim Church | | Mordecai | 01 |
| 288 | anthony Ulinski | | | 01 |
| 289 | Melissa Salter | I am so disappointed everytime I am walking around a historic neighborhood and a newly built house stands out like a sore thumb. I would never buy a home next to one of these new cheap looking homes that don't fit with the neighborhood. | Mordecai | 01 |
| 290 | Kristine Pryzgoda | I understand if home/land owners have the right to profit/sell their property - but there should be some "covenants" or architectural guidelines in place to protect existing homeowners - not to dictate what you can build, but what you can't build (setbacks, structure height, scale, etc) - the beauty of these old neighborhoods is the diversity - let's keep it that way! The homes don't all look alike - but they should look like they belong. | Mordecai | 03 |
| 291 | Sarah Wilson | | mordecai | 01 |
| 292 | Anonymous | | Mordecai | 01 |
| 293 | Erica Brown | | Cameron Village | 01 |
| 294 | Carlee Mallard | | | 03 |
| 295 | Paula Wolf | | Weathersfield Place | 01 |
| 296 | Anonymous | | 5 Points / Anderson Heights | 01 |
| 297 | laura kleber | | Five Points | 01 |
| 298 | Anonymous | I have lived in my 5 points neighborhood over 50 years and mostly in the same house. It is sad what is happening to the character of the community. Also, it is pricing the older folks out as tax values rise. We all like a profit on our homes, but at what cost. Raleigh natives are opposed to this time of growth but the newcomers love it. What do they have invested in Raleigh? | Five Points / Vanguard | 01 |
| 299 | Anonymous | | University Park | 02 |
| 300 | Norma Tomb | | Oakwood Historic | 01 |