Hi everyone, Today we’re proud to launch Chapel Hill For All. We envision a vibrant, affordable, sustainable, and inclusive Chapel Hill, where people at every stage of life and at all income levels can find a home. Chapel Hill for All is, like Triangle Blog Blog, part of Shameful Nuisance, our parent organization. Whereas Triangle […]
Posted inPickleball, Parks and Rec
Dear Pickleballers
A few weeks ago, we ran a piece by DJ Barnes about the tennis and pickleball situation in Chapel Hill. Barnes is a pickleballer and he had some stuff to say about the tennis players. (Backstory: Chapel Hill is seeing an increase in pickleball play, which is affecting how tennis courts are shared. This has […]
Posted inAffordable Housing, Chapel Hill Town Council
UNC Health Proposes a New Approach to Affordable Housing
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 […]