2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, April 2024

Downtown Raleigh

15.6 Community Facilities and Services Downtown’s vitality depends on many attributes of good planning, among them the siting, acquisition, co-location, programming, design, maintenance, and construction of high performance, sustainable community facilities that benefit and serve the downtown community. In addition to those already outlined in Section 8: Community Facilities and Services, the following downtown-specific policies and actions create conditions for continuing success.

Policy DT 6.3 Active Uses in Community Facilities Include space designed and constructed to accommodate ground-floor, active uses in new community facilities built downtown.

Action DT 6.1 Library

Collaborate with Wake County to locate and construct a downtown library.

Policy DT 6.1 Removed 2019

Policy DT 6.2 Consolidation of Downtown Services

Consolidate downtown municipal services on the block bounded by Hargett, McDowell, Dawson, and Morgan streets.

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