Some of the blogbloggers attended an open house on missing middle housing in Chapel Hill last night. We’ve written a lot about why having diverse housing will help young families, senior citizens, and multi-generational households. Today, we want to talk about something else: How residents at the meeting — and other meetings we’ve attended — […]
Posted inFrom the archives, Housing, Zoning
This is the 1955 zoning map for Chapel Hill
We were looking through old Chapel Hill Town Council meeting minutes when we came across the 1955 zoning map from the town. Prepared by the Planning Board, the map set up three additional districts in town: RA-20, suburban commercial, and agricultural. What does the map show? It shows Chapel Hill’s eight zoning districts. We can […]
Posted inCarrboro, Connectivity, Greenway
The Bolin Creek Greenway draft scope of work misses the mark: Here’s why
On February 14, 2023, the Carrboro Town Council met for a work session to discuss the long-awaited public engagement process for Phases 3 & 4 of the Bolin Creek Greenway. We liveblogged the work session (and wrote an analysis afterwards). The purpose of the work session, if you didn’t tune in, was for Carrboro council […]
Posted inHousing, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
Amending the LUMO to more readily permit the building of “missing middle” housing is the right way forward.
We’re reprinting some of our favorite public comments from the public hearing on the housing choices proposal held by Chapel Hill Town Council on January 25, 2023. The following comments were made by Nancy Lovas, a resident of Carrboro. My name is Nancy Lovas. I am speaking in support of the proposed amendments to the […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill
The ongoing hypocrisy of CHALT
We were perusing the public Chapel Hill Town Council email inbox – some of us like to live dangerously – when we came across two strange little emails. The first, sent in May 2022, was from one of CHALT’s current leaders. A paragraph: I have several ideas for legal/policy changes the Council could make, that […]