We're very fortunate, ... I think most people understand we're trying to move Raleigh ahead.

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.

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.

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.

We're saying, 'Don't create a suburban office park just a mile away,' .

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.

We need to take steps now.