Where we left off: With the election of Howard Lee and two political allies, the Chapel Hill Town Council finally voted to approve the rezoning necessary to build Elliott Woods. Part 6: For more than a year, the Inter-Church Council had patiently waited for the stars to align so they could start building Elliott Woods. […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: Christian Matthaeus
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is Christian Matthaeus, my family and I live in a single-family home in Lake Forest, Chapel Hill. We have three young children, two of whom are life-long Chapel Hill residents. Our family has depended on […]
![Message on back of card: "Monday, Chapel Hill. My sister [took] flu & brother pneumonia so they phoned for me. I'll be here a few days I suppose. Sylvia is [illegible] & Harry out of danger. Lovingly, Bess D. Arrowood." Addressed to: "Miss Irene Tate, Morganton, N.C." Postmarked 21 March 1922.](https://triangleblogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arboretum.jpg)
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Climate, Housing
Orange-Chatham Sierra Club comments on the Housing Choices proposal
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is Kathy Kaufman and I am representing the Orange-Chatham Group of the Sierra Club in place of our chair, Melissa McCullough, who is at the Green Tie Awards Dinner in Raleigh. I want to remind […]
Posted inChapel Hill, From the archives
The Resurrection of Elliott Woods
Where we left off: After a fierce, months-long debate about building affordable housing adjacent to the large single-family homes in the Coker Hills and Lake Forest neighborhoods, the town council declines to support the Inter-Church Council’s proposal to build the Elliott Woods project. It took an election. In May 1969, Howard Lee, Chapel Hill’s first, […]
Posted inBike Beat, Connectivity, Transportation
Electric bikes are the most climate-friendly way to travel
Meandering around Chapel Hill, it is hard to miss the plethora of hybrid, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars in driveways, shopping centers, and parked on the street. On just about every block you’ll see a Tesla, which may have displaced Toyota’s Prius as the favored vehicle of the town’s environmental set. But while electric cars […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: Dan Levine
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. Good evening, I’m Dan Levine, a resident of Colony Woods. I love my neighborhood for the people, not because of the houses. In fact, it’s a textbook example of a sprawling single-family subdivision with homes set back […]