Charles Meeker
Charles Meeker
Charles Carpenter Meekeris the former mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, United States and a member of the Democratic Party. He was first elected in 2001 over Republican Paul Coble, and reelected for a fifth two-year term in 2009. A fifth term tied Meeker with Avery C. Upchurch as Raleigh's longest-serving mayor...
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I think the message to go out today is mandatory requirements are imminent unless we get some rain, real rain in the next few days,
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We're very fortunate, ... I think most people understand we're trying to move Raleigh ahead.
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Non-essential travel will be ended, idling of vehicles will be limited as much as possible and air conditioning will not be used, ... The point of all these things is to have some measurable impact in the amount of gasoline and diesel fuel consumed by city vehicles.
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We're saying, 'Don't create a suburban office park just a mile away,'
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Water supply is a big deal -- second only to the air supply. If we ran out of water, that would be an extreme situation,
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There's a lot of park land that would attract people with a lot of uses, such as children's play areas and having good transportation connectivity to downtown, as well as residential uses with the older buildings, as well as the new buildings,
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If it had not passed, ... it ultimately would have affected our quality of life, but citizens said it's something we've got to do.