Reports

The City of Raleigh released the 2nd draft of the Unified Development Ordinance in January. WakeUP Wake County's UDO team submitted comments and gave a public statement at the well-attended UDO public hearing on February 21st.  Following the public hearing, the draft UDO will be reviewed by the Planning Commission, which return its recommendations back to Raleigh City Council no later than early June. To view WakeUP's summary comments click here. WakeUP's complete comments can be found here.

Civil Rights Complaint

School Redistricting Information

• Press Release: 5-13-11 GSIW Receives Redistricting Data
• Details behind the proposed redistricting plan
• Redistricting in a nutshell: maps, frequently asked questions, more information
• What is redistricting? Why should it matter to you?
• Proposed Board of Education Redistricting Plan

Click link below to read Great Schools' report on the WCPSS conversion of 14 year-round programs to single-track:

• Great Schools in Wake on Year-Round School Conversion (pdf)

Click link below to read Great Schools' April 25, 2011 press release:

• Press release: 4-25-11 Great Schools in Wake Favors Comprehensive, Strategic Approach to Student Assignment (pdf)

Why does redistricting occur? Read our Questions and Answers

What did we learn from the 2010 Census?
Wake County's population is now 900,990! Therefore, we must redistrict to have a population of 100,110 (+/- 5 percent) in each school board district.

 
How did we come up with our proposed redistricting alternatives?
We took the correction numbers and looked at the demographic data to ensure that the proposed districts represented all ethnic and racial groups fairly.  This is a constitutional mandate.

Read The CAROLINIAN real story by Cash Michaels about the Tedesco/Margiotta scheme to get over 6,000 SouthEast Raleigh students re-assigned back to their neighborhoods. The school system's own documents prove it:

THE TEDESCO SCHEME
By Cash Michaels, Editor
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Stage II: (good) Stage II still in and is not halted because of re-modeling; analysis of performance of St I and feasibility of St II is in 2025 - though anyone can come in with new data at any time

The Triangle Region continues to grow and, as of July 2010, Wake County is the LARGEST COUNTY in North and South Carolina!  As growth continues to reshape our region and transportation needs, we must work to improve regional transit services!

Driven Apart, a recent transportation report, ranks how long residents in the nation's largest 51 metropolitan areas spend in peak hour traffic.  Raleigh/Cary ranks 5th on the list of cities with the LONGEST COMMUTES.  According to the report, Triangle residents spend more time traveling to work each day than regional commuters in most other major metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.  Read the full report here.