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Posted inTransportation, Bike and Walk, Bike Beat, Carrboro, Connectivity
Why connected roads make communities safer and better
The way we have been designing our streets and neighborhoods have actually made our streets more dangerous. Let’s go back a bit: Starting in the 1930s, suburban design in the United States has been heavily influenced by the Radburn Idea, which originates from a planned suburban community with the same name in North Jersey. Radburn […]
Posted inLegislature
Republicans want to radically reshape how North Carolina apportions our state senators
A wackadoodle bill calls for a constitutional amendment that there be 100 counties in NC, and that each state senator represent exactly two counties (not, as is required now, an approximately equal number of residents). First, some legal history One of the bedrock principles in American democracy is the idea of “one person one vote.” […]
Posted inHousing, Affordable Housing, Chapel Hill, UNC
Low income residents need more market-rate apartments
As a graduate student, my income is below Chapel Hill’s median. I pay almost half my income to my landlord. I expect to be priced out of any new apartments in Chapel Hill under consideration in the Blue Hill District. To help cost-burdened tenants like me, I hope the Town Council continues to allow the development of dense new market-rate apartments in this area as quickly as possible.