We’re reprinting some of our favorite public comments from the public hearing on the housing choices proposal held by Chapel Hill Town Council on January 25, 2023. The following comments were made by Nancy Lovas, a resident of Carrboro. My name is Nancy Lovas. I am speaking in support of the proposed amendments to the […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill
The ongoing hypocrisy of CHALT
We were perusing the public Chapel Hill Town Council email inbox – some of us like to live dangerously – when we came across two strange little emails. The first, sent in May 2022, was from one of CHALT’s current leaders. A paragraph: I have several ideas for legal/policy changes the Council could make, that […]
Posted inConnectivity
A Place for Happiness in the Conversation about Place
What makes a place conducive for human happiness and wellbeing? And how do we create that in the face of our sustainability challenges? “And what are our needs for happiness? We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Development review, Downtown, Housing, Small business
Three Things We Learned From Watching the March 22 Chapel Hill Town Council Meeting
From the start of the March 22 meeting of Chapel Hill Town Council, it seemed that everyone was bracing for a long night. Despite a relatively slim agenda, the council revisited several contentious items from the past and discussed, for the first time, a wet lab that’s proposed for downtown. Here’s what we learned: People […]
Posted inHousing, Bike and Walk, Climate
Jenny Schuetz on the IPCC report and the true climate impacts of urban growth
On Monday, the IPCC released its 2023 report on climate change, and it’s pretty grim. Scientists have given us a “final warning” on the climate crisis, warning that only swift and drastic action can avert us from irreversible catastrophic warning. The language is blunt, the warnings are dire. We need to act now, in many […]