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Chapel Hill’s getting ready to make it hugely easier to build “missing middle” housing!

Ok, now THIS is a big deal. Chapel Hill is getting ready to make it hugely easier to build “missing middle” housing. What is missing middle housing? It’s all the housing between single-family homes and big multi-family apartments like: Duplexes Triplexes, and Cottage apartments. For years, like many other communities, most land in Chapel Hill …

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Housing news: Starter homes, land for housing, rental units

By Stephen Whitlow

It must have been a rough weekend for our neighbors who continue to mangle basic economics and use convoluted logic to argue that we don’t need to build more housing in Chapel Hill. Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal released articles detailing the housing crisis affecting the nation as a whole, and …

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Civic Meetings: Week of September 26, 2022

By Triangle BlogBlog

Yo Chapel Hill and Carrboro: there’s a LOT going on this week, civics-wise. Let’s take a look at what’s on the docket. Monday Parks, Greenways and Recreation Commissions special meeting Our parks and rec friends are holding a special meeting to discuss the Splash Pad and Inclusive Playground Feasbility Analysis and Report Project. We’re major …

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World Car Free Day: My experience in Chapel Hill, NC

By John Rees

Yesterday was World Car Free Day. Events observe this world wide. Many of us, myself included, pledge to live a car free life every day. It is NOT always easy. The built environment in Chapel Hill, and in most places around the world, are stacked against us bike or transit-riding devotees: the transit system is …

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We’re getting a park on the American Legion land. Why are people fighting it?

By Melody Kramer

Imagine your town council proposes a 20+ acre new park and also much needed missing middle housing for municipal workers in your community. Oh yeah, and also some shops like the ones they have next to that amazing downtown park in Blowing Rock, NC. And, get this, the new park will be within easy walking …

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Update on coal ash: There’s a lot of misinformation circulating

By Triangle BlogBlog

We are dismayed that misinformation continues to spread about coal ash and the 828 MLK site in Chapel Hill. You can read our previous deep dive on this project if you’d like to know more about what’s happened so far, what the town has decided, and why the counterarguments circulating about the redevelopment don’t stand …

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Five things we want to see Town Councils tackle this term

By Melody Kramer

It’s the start of the Town Council cycle for Chapel Hill and Carrboro, which means we’re once again planning to keep you informed about issues involving civic life in both of our towns. We also have opinions about what the Town Councils should tackle this term. Here are five ideas we plan to track: Connecting …

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Three Reasons to Extend the Libba Cotten Bikeway to UNC (And Three Ways You Can Help)

By Martin Johnson

Yesterday, NEXT Chapel Hill-Carrboro launched a campaign to ask the Town of Chapel Hill to extend the Libba Cotten Bikeway, which runs along a rail line between Chapel Hill and Carrboro, to UNC’s campus along Cameron Avenue. (Full disclosure: I am a member of NEXT, and pitched the idea of focusing on this issue). More …

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Our local non-profit newspaper is having a rough month

By Melody Kramer

When we last visited The Local Reporter – our “relentlessly local” non-profit newspaper with very close ties to an organization with a PAC – they were saying farewell to their fourth editor in three years. He served just under three months in the role. It’s been a little over a month since that shakeup, and …

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The Great Carrboro Saunter – A 32 mile walk around town

By Heidi Perry

In May each year, the Shorewalkers of New York hold an event called the Great Saunter, a 32-mile leisurely walk around the perimeter of Manhattan. It is a fantastic way to see the city while challenging yourself with a long distance urban hike. I have done the Great Saunter a few times with family, but …

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