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 […]
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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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing, Zoning
We answered (almost) every question Chapel Hill Town Council has received on missing middle housing
Last week, the Town of Chapel Hill’s planning staff hosted two public info meetings about missing middle housing. Ever since, emails have trickled into the town inbox filled with fearmongering predictions about gentle density – which, if implemented, is one tool that will help address Chapel Hill’s shortfall in housing supply for young families and […]
Posted inFrom the archives
The day Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Chapel Hill
On Thursday, May 5, 1960, The Daily Tar Heel previewed a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. that was to take place the following Monday: An overflow crowd attended the speech, which was held in Hill Hall at 8pm. A few years ago, Mike Ogle wrote about the speech and what brought Dr. King to […]