St. Paul AME proposes a large new housing and multi-purpose development on the edge of town near Rogers Road. The Triangle Business Times gives details: This is good. Rogers Road is a historically Black community in the Northern part of Chapel Hill, and has a decades-long history of bearing the brunt of environmental injustice. The […]
Posted inClimate, Bike and Walk, Bike Beat, Chapel Hill, Greenway, Housing, Orange County, Triangle Region, Zoning
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 […]
Posted inConnectivity, Bike and Walk, Transportation
Less time in cars equals safer roads for everyone
In my last post, I wrote about how connected roads make our communities safer. Connected roads also reduce the time we spend in cars, which provide large but overlooked traffic safety benefits. This may seem counterintuitive because much of traffic safety planning has, for decades, revolved around reducing risky behavior: teens get graduated licenses, we […]
Posted inCarrboro
76 reasons we’re excited about the Bolin Creek Greenway
We are parents, kids, UNC students, UNC faculty, UNC staff, Carrboro residents, Chapel Hill residents, and people who work in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and we are PSYCHED for a Bolin Creek Greenway. The proposed greenway, which you can see below in YELLOW (in Carrboro) and ORANGE (in Chapel Hill), will help people from all […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing
The way Chapel Hill residents treat town staff at public meetings is horrifying
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 […]