I received this from numerous sources, and it looks like a fantastic event:

July of 2008 marks the 220 ^th anniversary of the first ‘planning’ meeting held for Raleigh. That meeting, held at Sir Isaac Hunter’s Tavern, established Raleigh as the new state capital of North Carolina. In honor of this occasion, the Department of City Planning will be hosting a spirited, non-traditional planning charrette to discuss the Big Ideas you have for downtown and the City of Raleigh. This email, and the attached PDF, is a call for our community’s dreamers, thinkers, and critics, imagineers, and designers to come together to share your ideas, no matter how crazy or far-fetched, for what our community can be.

You want a river downtown? Tell us.

An arena surrounded by walkable retail? Tell us.

A zip line between the Two Hannover Tower and Wachovia Capital Center? Tell us.

You get the point.

Please feel free to post the attached PDF on your respective websites, as the success of the event will be influenced by the number of dreamers we have in attendance.

The details:

Where? Tir na nOg Irish Pub (218 S. Blount St., Downtown Raleigh)

When? April 21 ^st , 2008 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM

What else do I need to do? RSVP thru the planning department website .