Splash Pad correspondent Mel Kramer with junior correspondents Asher (5) and Kai (4) here. We’ve been anxiously following the splash pad dealings in Chapel Hill and awaiting the day when we don’t have to drive to Burlington or Pittsboro to get our splash pad on. (Related: TBB’s Chapel Hill Splash Pad Location Activation Tracker.) And […]
Posted inHousing, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
Questions, questions, so many questions about property value and neighborhood character
Chapel Hill’s proposal to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their own properties is going before the Town Council on Wednesday January 25 for a public hearing, and it’s sure to draw a large crowd of public commenters. There will be a lot of people there speaking in favor of the […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Events around town
The Chapel Hill Public Library has personalized reading recommendations
We recently learned that the Chapel Hill Public Library offers a really cool service: They’ll send you personalized reading recommendations (and even put those books on hold for you) if you tell them recent books you’ve liked and disliked. We’ve tried the service out (for a 5-year-old) and received back great recommendations that were spot-on […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Durham, Triangle Region
We need to remember what we are
Chapel Hill is a college town. More specifically, Chapel Hill is a research university town. Two of the top 13 institutions in the country that receive federal research funds are either in Chapel Hill or immediately adjacent to Chapel Hill. Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill received $2.4 billion in sponsored research and development funds for federal […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Economic development, Small business
Saving Purple Bowl (and other local businesses)
It’s no secret that the Town of Chapel Hill wants more commercial development here, and there are good reasons for that: In recent years, Chapel Hill Town Council has pursued a variety of low-hanging fruit strategies to add to our commercial base. For the most part, these strategies have been modest and the results haven’t […]
Posted inChapel Hill, CHALT
Oy! Fiscal impact analysis, Obey Creek, and :jazz-hands: Chapel Hill
In the Facebook thread that just won’t quit, we’ve moved on from discussing whether newly-built apartments in Chapel Hill generate enough tax revenue to pay for services they receive (Spoiler: Yes.) and onto a series of other discussion points, including: Whether we can and should apply the fiscal analysis for the not-built 2014 Obey Creek […]