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 […]
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Interview: Leaders of Arlington’s pro-missing middle housing group
Last month, the Arlington (VA) county board voted unanimously to approve allowing smaller structures like duplexes and cottage courts in neighborhoods that previously allowed only single-detached homes. Arlington, like Chapel Hill, was seeing the redevelopment of older single-detached homes resulting in the construction of much larger and more expensive single-detached homes. The new zoning rules […]
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We should ‘Save Chapel Hill’ from an ugly past
Westin Resort & Spa, Hilton Head, SC, July 2, 2020, 10:00 am It was a warm summer morning, and we were on the 3rd floor of our hotel patiently waiting for the elevator. It had been six long Covid-angst ridden months of social distancing, masking and not leaving the house – we were ready for […]