Chapel Hill’s new missing middle housing proposal has drawn a number of themes which we’ve covered before. Among them: this will lower property values, this will raise property values (?), this will affect neighborhood character, and we can’t do this because look at what’s happening in Raleigh. What’s happening in Raleigh? Taking advantage of Raleigh’s […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Connectivity, Greenway
Liveblog: Carrboro Town Council Work Session, February 14, 2023
Happy Valentine’s Day, civic nerds! We’ll be liveblogging the Carrboro Town Council work session, which kicks off tonight at 7pm. The topic tonight is the public input process for Bolin Creek’s missing greenway. You can head down to Town Hall, or watch the livestream, which will be on YouTube and also on Legistar. Work sessions […]
Posted inBike and Walk, Bike Beat, Transportation
A first kiss at Weaver Street Market…
We asked our readers for transit, bike, and walk love stories for Valentine’s Day, inspired by Ashley and David’s Chapel Hill Transit love story.
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Bike and Walk, Bike Beat, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill, Connectivity, Greenway
TONIGHT: The school bus crisis in Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the Bolin Creek Greenway
Developing our greenway network helps make our transportation to school network more resilient in the long run. These are all interconnected issues
Posted inHousing
When we talk about housing policy, we need to talk about counterfactuals
Advocates for more missing middle housing routinely claim that decreasing the barriers to building new houses will lead to (slightly) lower rents. The underlying logic is that more supply, all else being equal, will lead to a new, and lower equilibrium price. Opponents of missing middle housing will point to cities and towns with increasing […]
Posted inZoning, Chapel Hill
What time is the SUPer Bowl? Yeah, we’re talking special use permits.
FEBRUARY 11 – GLENDALE, AZ | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rihanna, Barbadian chanteuse and founder of Fenty, brings a ‘jam-packed’ show to the deserts of Arizona on Sunday, February 12th. Pre-show festivities, including an all-male sportsball revue and release of a captive eagle, will kickoff at 6PM. Also programmed is your annual dose of cognitive dissonance, […]