RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Community activist group Livable Raleigh hosted an event on Sunday discussing strategies to protect affordable housing in the city and better manage Raleigh's rapid growth. At that event were several dozen homeowners, as well as former Mayor Charles Meeker and lawyer and Wake County Housing Authority Chair Yolanda Taylor.

Both remarked that community engagement has become critical as Raleigh charts a course for its future.

"We're not anti-development, but we realize there needs to be balanced development, and we realize that we can't really look at cookie-cutter policy," Taylor said.

She said that in her 30 years in and around Raleigh, the effects of the city's rapid growth have become glaring.

"Being someone that has lived here, you know, since 1991, going to

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