A new poll from Triangle Community Coalition and Fallon Research and Communications show Raleigh residents are torn between concerns over housing prices and the rate of growth in the city. Fallon Research surveyed 401 likely voters throughout Raleigh from May 6 to May 9 using a combination of residential and cell phone listings. The margin...
The Raleigh City Council has voted to allow people to rent one or two guest rooms, but homeowners won’t be allowed to rent entire houses. Unless bills pending in the General Assembly block Raleigh and other cities from micromanaging similar short-term rental properties. In a 5-2 vote, the City Council on Tuesday, May 21, passed...
Raleigh residents soon won’t see Bird or Lime e-scooters zipping around town. Electric scooter companies, Bird and Lime, announced March 28 they were leaving Raleigh, citing city regulations as the driving force. In statements to WRAL news, the e-scooter companies said they will be leaving North Carolina’s capital. “Our time in Raleigh must come to...
The Raleigh City Council Healthy Neighborhoods committee approved a draft ordinance for regulating short-term rentals, but it failed to find a consensus on what to do about whole-house rentals in the city. Short-term rentals, like Airbnb, are technically illegal in Raleigh, but the city hasn’t enforced the ban while regulations are in the works. City...
People in Raleigh who ride electric scooters will probably notice their trips costing more. Bird, which operates many of the e-scooters dotting downtown, has added a $2 transportation fee in response to recent City Council regulations. Last year, the Raleigh City Council decided to implement an annual $300 per e-scooter charge for any company that...
Brent Woodcox, former co-chair of the short term rental task force, has launched a political action committee, called Share Raleigh, to educate people about the debate over short-term rentals, such as Airbnbs. While short-term rentals are technically illegal in Raleigh, city officials have failed to enforce the ban while the debate over legalizing and regulating...
It began with an anonymous complaint. It’s now a full-scale debate — about property rights, the free market, and, in fact, freedom of choice. Short-term rentals — Airbnbs, for example — have been banned in Raleigh for years, though enforcement of that ban has been lax as the city debates ways to regulate the industry....
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RALEIGH — The Raleigh City Council wants to raise impact fees on construction by 72 percent. But the city’s consultants failed to account for positive impacts of new construction, a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report shows.
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