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A loan program the city set up last year needs more money before it can start lending again to local businesses. The program was previously run by the city for downtown businesses, but will soon be available for small companies across Raleigh.
A new grocery, community gardens, a farmers’ market. Raleigh is looking at solutions for east and southeast Raleigh’s food desert.
For some Raleigh properties, development is a puzzle with missing pieces. A Raleigh “hackathon” recently debated ways to bring all the pieces and players together.
A group of architects and developers are hosting a “hackathon” this week to tackle questions about what to do with vacant or unused space in downtown. Photo by kakissell.
A developer plans to move a Colonial-era house from its Wake Forest Road address to Hilmer Drive later this year. The move will preserve the house while freeing up the land for development.
Studies show Raleigh needs to be more pedestrian friendly. The city’s new Comprehensive Pedestrian Plan outlines changes for the future, from sidewalks to street crossing improvements.
[media-credit name=”Erin Mulligan Graber” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Erin Mulligan Graber — District Court Judge 10
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Beyond enforcing laws and being fair, what do you think are important qualities to bring to the bench? Let me tell you a little about myself and what I think are very important qualities to bring to the bench. Before I was a lawyer I worked at social services. I worked at Interact here in Wake County, if you’re familiar with that program. We work with domestic violence victims and survivors of sexual assault. Being in social services I was in this day in and day out, learning the resources in the community, in Wake County.
Anna Worley — District Court Judge 10
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[media-credit name=”Anna Worley” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Beyond enforcing laws and being fair, what do you think are important qualities to bring to the bench? I certainly think of course that fairness is primary among those things that we have to bring to the bench. There are several other traits that I think are very important. I think that being able to listen carefully to people and patiently to people. In the time that I’ve been on the bench I have gained an even greater understanding of how very difficult it can be to the large number—and it is an extraordinarily large number now—of pro se litigants in the court system to express their case.
In September, 2011, Raleigh City Council voted to permit food trucks downtown. Despite initial concerns about emissions, littering and unfair competition for restaurants, city staffers say the lack of complaints since September is a good sign.
After studying 30 years of satellite imagery, a UNC Charlotte research project says Triangle counties have developed land at a faster rate than they’ve added people.
