— Raleigh, NC · A civic minded project

Edit.Raleigh

Draft the future. Preserve the past. Edit your city.

Cities change. Most of it goes unrecorded.
Edit Raleigh is where residents become the authors
of their neighborhood's living history.

The corner store that closed. The road that got repaved. The vote that changed the block. These moments matter — and they belong in the record. Not just in city hall minutes. In the words of the people who were there.

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The idea

A living record
written street by street.

History books are written after the fact, by people with distance from the moment. Edit Raleigh captures it as it happens — through the eyes of the people walking these streets, attending these meetings, raising families in these neighborhoods.

Think of it less like a message board and more like a shared notebook for the city — observations, decisions, changes, and memories, organized by place and time.

Developed in partnership with Raleigh Civic Minded Geeks.

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Street-level voice

What you saw on your walk to work this morning. What changed on your block this year. You are the primary source.

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Institutional Knowledge

A searchable, place-based archive of Raleigh's evolution — written by residents, legible to everyone.

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Informed participation

Better decisions come from better-informed communities. Edit Raleigh connects neighbors to the conversations that shape their city.

How it works

Observe something

A new development going up. A road closure. A rezoning vote. A beloved business closing. You noticed it — now write it down. One paragraph is enough.

Tag it to a place and moment

Every entry is anchored to a neighborhood, a street, a date. The geography is the structure. Future readers will find it exactly where it happened.

Others add context

Neighbors contribute what they know. Council members clarify decisions. City staff add background. The entry grows into a fuller picture.

The record accumulates

Over time, Edit Raleigh becomes the institutional memory the city has always needed — searchable, human, and written by the people who were actually there.

Partner with your City

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Working with Raleigh, not around it

City Council · Planning · Neighborhoods

Edit Raleigh isn't a watchdog. It isn't a petition platform. It's a bridge — between the people living in the city and the people responsible for running it. We're building this in active dialogue with city leadership, so the record residents create is one the city can actually use.

◆ Planning input — neighborhood observations fed directly into city planning conversations, not shouted into the void.

◆ Council transparency — elected officials can post context, clarify decisions, and hear from constituents in one place.

◆ Shared archive — a resource for city staff, historians, journalists, and residents alike. Built together. Owned by no one.

◆ No partisanship — this is about place, not politics. About Raleigh, not sides.