This Wednesday, the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear a years-in-the-making proposal from UNC Health to add up to 1.1 million square feet of office space and parking garages to its Eastowne location over the next twenty-five years. While this project is textbook suburban medical office space, UNC Health is making an interesting proposal on […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Parks and Rec
Can Carrboro compromise on the cemetery/park question?
Yard signs appeared in front of Carrboro Elementary School, the Farmer’s Market, and on the Libba Cotten bike path, and a new website appeared over the weekend called MakePark.org. The tagline of both the website and the yard signs are “Make parks, not graveyards” and concern the possible Westwood Cemetery expansion. This is a nuanced […]
Posted inCHALT
A response to a CHALT coordinator posting our addresses on NextDoor
Earlier today, Linda Brown, one of CHALT’s coordinators, doxxed us in the semi-private NextDoor group she runs. Our addresses were posted, along with our names. We can’t respond in Linda’s group. That’s because she has blocked us all from participating in the group. We are appreciative of the many people who reached out to us […]
Posted inUncategorized, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Greenway
Chapel Hill’s actions to extend the Bolin Creek Greenway increase the urgency of Carrboro’s proposed extension
Ryan Byars sent the email below to Mayor Damon Seils and the Carrboro Town Council on Thursday, April 20. On April 19, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a $500k ARPA allocation for town staff to design an extension of the existing Bolin Creek Greenway in Chapel Hill from Umstead Park to Estes Drive in […]
Posted inHousing
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 […]