On Wednesday (May 24), the Chapel Hill Town Council will open a public hearing to consider a proposal to allow people to build duplexes and small homes throughout our community, not just in a handful of neighborhoods. We’re excited about this proposal because we think it will be a small but significant step towards making […]
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Interview: Leaders of Arlington’s pro-missing middle housing group
Last month, the Arlington (VA) county board voted unanimously to approve allowing smaller structures like duplexes and cottage courts in neighborhoods that previously allowed only single-detached homes. Arlington, like Chapel Hill, was seeing the redevelopment of older single-detached homes resulting in the construction of much larger and more expensive single-detached homes. The new zoning rules […]
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Three areas Chapel Hill Town Council should focus on tonight as it discusses missing middle housing
There’s a Chapel Hill Town Council work session tonight at the library, where town staff will recommend dialing back the missing middle housing proposal. We will not be attending or watching the work session, because many of us have young children and it starts at 6:30 PM on a school night. We plan to watch […]
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A Milder Proposal: Town Staff Revises Its Plan for Missing Middle Housing
Over the past few months, Chapel Hill homeowners from Gimghoul to Greenwood, Hidden Hills to Laurel Hill, Colony Woods to Lake Ellen, have taken precious hours out of their day to complain to, cajole, and sometimes just yell at town staff who, at the council’s direction, are trying to solve a major problem—we don’t have […]
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Great news! The Orange-Chatham chapter of the North Carolina Sierra Club looks likely to support the Bolin Creek Greenway and missing middle housing. Hooray!
This is great news, as it aligns with national guidance provided by the Sierra Club! The BlogBlog caught wind of a brouhaha at the latest meeting of the Orange-Chatham chapter of the North Carolina Sierra Club. We did some digging and were able to obtain leaked drafts of letters of support from the chapter’s executive […]