A new report was presented to Raleigh city leaders on Tuesday, emphasizing the ways city officials can improve vibrancy and safety in the city. That report was commissioned by the City Council in January 2024 through an external consultant, Responsible Hospitality Institute — or RHI — and took on familiar topics such as how to better activate public areas downtown and improve safety and pedestrian access.
The firm’s findings also reopened debate on a topic that city leaders have discussed at length in the past two years: the city’s noise policy and the best way to enforce it.
“It’s incredibly helpful,” said Mayor Janet Cowell on RHI’s findings. “Again, to me, just on the noise ordinance to say, ‘I’ve done this in 80 cities, you guys are using a sound ordinance that I don’t think is best practice’, that is extremely helpful to me to know that.”…