Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan

David Thursday, December 04, 2008

Politics

Raleigh 2030: The Comprehensive Plan

Raleigh's Comprehensive plan for Raleigh 2030

Last night’s presentation by Raleigh’s City Planners was just that; a drum roll for the stack of documents that the community is expected to sift through. The city expects Raleigh residents to sift through those documents and submit comments via email and upcoming workshops. After publishing the documents to their website the city ran into some unusual problems with their server.  We present to you the entirety of the plan below, embedded for your convenience. You can also download the documents and get more information on the city’s website.

 





Full Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan

Executive Summary
Plan at a Glance
Introduction & Framework (includes cover, TOC, and acknowledgements)
Elements of the Comprehensive Plan
Area Plans
Implementing the Comprehensive Plan
Action Plan Matrix (part of the implementation section)
Draft Growth Framework Map (Download Only)
Draft Future Land Use Map (Download Only)

Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan Quick Guides

If 600+ pages of reading is daunting the following documents may be easier to digest.

How do I use the Quick Guides?
How is the new Plan different from the 1989 Plan and why?
What places may change over the next 20 years?
What areas have been targeted for improvement?
What is a Future Land Use Map?
What happened to the urban design and other guidelines?
What happened to the Area Plans?
How will the 2030 Comprehensive Plan be used?
What will Raleigh look like in 2030 and how will the plan affect me?
What changes were made to the Thoroughfare Plan?

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  • Ken Bowers12/04 03:56 PM

    Thanks for providing an additional place to access the Plan documents. However, I would also recommend that people visit here:

    http://raleigh-consult.limehouse.com/

    That’s where you can read an HTML version of the plan and enter comments on it directly. It loads very quickly and is better for on-line reading than the PDFs.

  • sasquatch12/04 07:50 PM

    sasquatch have idea for city plan peoples,need more babbling brooks,rotten logs,not mention box turtles.me love box turtle,they so funny,witty too.beavis looking city manager scare sasquatch,watch him on electric box with picture on front when city peoples have meetings,him not seem to like expressions peoples call art,make sasquatch sad,me think humans need art in public place so pigeon have something to poop on and humans be inspired by.please consider sasquatch idea or me find where live and eat cat.

  • DPK12/04 10:00 PM

    ^ grow up much?

  • prohiphop12/04 10:26 PM

    “beavis looking city manager”


    sasquatch rocks!


    i think eating cats is a good plan.


    and much quicker reading.

  • Joshua12/04 10:54 PM

    i second what sasquatch said. especially the public art part. plus raleigh could consider revisiting our signage ordinances. you should be able to look down any street downtown and easily have an idea of what business are on that block. i know they are trying to prevent overconcentration of signs. but its so sparse now it doesn’t encourage you to explore.

    http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=10312&sid=33
    part 10, chapter 2, section 10-2083

  • Aaron Huslage12/05 08:06 AM

    Where is the section on Transportation?! How do you plan on growing this place more without a true comprehensive plan on moving people around?!

  • Javier12/05 10:29 AM

    There is an entire element on Transportation.  It is the second element, folowing land use.  Try reading the document before shooting holes in it.

  • Enigma12/05 09:41 PM

    Great comment Javier.  Something Crowder and Stephenson should have done before mouthing off in the lousy Indy article Bob Geary wrote.  http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:271882  It would be nice to hear some positive comments from those two public servants, instead of their continued attacks on Mitch Silver and his entire hard working dedicated Planning Department staff.

  • Robert12/06 11:51 AM

    I agree with Enigma.  Everyone should remember this simple fact about some of our council members.  They don’t like growth.  They don’t like low density growth; they don’t like high density growth; they don’t like transit oriented growth; they don’t like suburban growth.  They don’t like it in a train, in the rain, or on a boat with a goat. 

    It’s just that simple.

    It’s time for change.

  • Betsy12/07 10:57 AM

    Wow Robert, that is a pretty broad statement!  I’d be really interested to know which council members do you mean, and could you point to a specific statements or actions of theirs that made you draw that conclusion?

  • WiseOne12/07 02:59 PM

    So what happens to the ‘old’ Comprehensive Plan, Vision 2020? From what I can recall it was often being changed or ignored…it would be interesting to see what really has happened compared to what was supposed to happen.

  • Todd Morman12/07 07:07 PM

    WiseOne has a great point. The city council has always felt free to completely ignore its Comprehensive Plan whenever it wants to do something that doesn’t fit. Rolling out a plan now to a lot of hoopla when you know you can just ignore it later by waving your hands and announcing “It’s just a *guideline*, you see.” is hilarious.

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