North Carolina has officially entered the era of no parking required. With Governor Josh Stein signing HB 162 into law, Raleigh has once again decided that local elected officials cannot be trusted to make decisions for their own communities. Instead of allowing cities and towns to determine how much parking is appropriate based on local […]
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SB 1047 and SB 445: Another Raleigh Power Grab for Developers and Special Interests
For generations, zoning and land-use decisions in North Carolina have been made by local elected officials who live in the communities affected by those decisions and answer directly to local voters. Yet two bills moving through the General Assembly—SB 1047 and SB 445—continue a troubling trend of shifting authority away from local governments and toward […]
When Developers Write the Rules
How the NC Home Builders Association Is Neutering Local Representative Government If you want to understand why local elected officials increasingly feel like middle managers instead of representatives, you don’t need a conspiracy theory. You just need to read the North Carolina Home Builders Association’s own legislative victory list. This is what happens when developers […]
Jeff Zenger’s War on Local Control
As Jeff Zenger runs for re-election, remember this: he is not simply your representative—he is a home-builder and developer who uses his legislative power to benefit the building industry, while shifting costs and risks onto local governments and taxpayers. According to public records he lists his occupation as “business owner / developer” with a construction […]
What is The NC Wall?
Are you tired of left/right politics that go nowhere, and constant broken promises from politicians? So are we! But we don’t have to stay in our political ruts – there are important, non-partisan issues that can move our state forward. Through simple, measurable goals, and easily consumed information about our representatives and their voting record […]