The Raleigh City Council held its regular meeting on September 15, 2026, opening with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilor Silver and a recognition of special awards. The agenda included a consent calendar, public comments from 22 speakers, multiple zoning and text amendment items, a public art ordinance update, a Police Advisory Board report, a revenue and budget outlook, pedestrian safety and micromobility discussions, public nuisance lien confirmations, and board nominations.
All right. Welcome. We will start the meeting as always with the Pledge of Allegiance. Counselor Silver, can you lead us? One nation under God. Right. And we had a consent agenda. There were no items. Oh, sorry. We have recognition of special awards. Is there any? Okay. Right. Consent agenda, no items pulled. Do we have a motion to approve? Second. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed. All right. This pass, and we will move to public comment. We have twenty-two folks signed up, so two minutes each. And uh I will just remind everybody that our goal here is to have a space where everybody feels comfortable to speak and we can all hear and respect each other. So please refrain from clapping or certainly jeering or anything like that, but um just being respectful to everybody. Uh first folks, John Crewe. I see that I made the list twice, so you can drop me off down there somewhere. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for your service. Dr. Harrison, thank you for your cogent questions this morning concerning water supply. They illustrated a preservation mindset. Preservation considers not only monuments, buildings, and vistas, but is also mindful of communities and their goals and achievements. Stay off the thin ice of spot zoning. Thank you. Although I'm grateful for everybody who's participating in public comment, because that's what makes our city better. And I was just wondering if there's any way to um find um somebody who can do maybe pre-dog pre-dog parent training for people who are interested in in having uh a pup here in the city because we have a lot of dogs, and for them to not be trained is really unfortunate for them and unfortunately for the community that they're living in. So that was just something that I thought about that could be maybe included in the leisure ledger as something um that the city offers, maybe through um somebody who is interested in offering that type of training. Another thing that I wanted to mention was Toshiba Rice, uh, with all this talk about the keen uh teen curfew, Toshiba Rice, who is the district representative for um the Board of Education for Wake County for District 4 in particular, she's holding an event called Journey Mapping on September 24th. It's in the evening at New Hope Collaborative for people who are interested in actually mapping what it looks like from pregnancy to um profession, is how I say it. And then the last thing is I just have a question about what happened to the Gold Raleigh Live site and app. It was the most accurate way that we had to track bus service, the Go Raleigh bus service, and it all of a sudden sudden stopped working one day. So if somebody could just bring some clarity to that, I would really appreciate it. Otherwise, thank you guys so much. Shane Stanley. Hello, City Council members, thank you for being here. Um my name is Shane Stanley. I'm a Glenwood South resident, former NC State student and former Raleigh teenager. Um I myself was present on the 4th of July on Glenwood South. Uh my buddy Joe got engaged that night because he thought it would be nice to get engaged with the fireworks, and then he wasn't able to leave his house to go have a glass of champagne with his new fiance because it was too dangerous right outside of our door. A co-worker of mine works a second job on Glenwood South, and she let me know on Monday that she saw a man shot in the leg and bleeding from the leg uh outside a dogwood bar that's very same night.