A number of op-eds and listserv messages have been circulating in recent days that oppose the new library in downtown Carrboro. I am really excited for the library in downtown Carrboro. It’s on three bus lines, and walkable/bikeable from many parts of town. It’s close to nearby businesses. And in recent years, many public libraries […]
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Carrboro Town Council meeting petition is not equitable
A new petition is circulating from the BetterCarrboro listserv encouraging immediate in-person meetings for the Carrboro Town Council. One signer writers, “Time to stop hiding behind Zoom curtain. Real people are not digital images.” As of this writing, the petition has 14 signatures. I disagree that Zoom meetings have limited public participation or are different […]
Posted inBike and Walk
Keep the trails and sidewalks open
For a community to truly support people who travel by walking/rolling, biking, and taking transit, like Chapel Hill aspires to do, it needs to make sure people can rely on roads and trails being open for their use. So while it’s important to build safe walking and biking facilities like sidewalks, protected bike lanes, separated […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, From the archives
Flashback to the 1980s: The Anti-Growth Consensus in Chapel Hill
As anyone who has tried to buy a home in Chapel Hill in recent years knows, we are in the middle of a housing crisis. According to the Cooke Report, published last month by local realtors Allison Zimmerman and Lucia Cooke, the average house sells within 13 days of being listed. (In a healthy market, […]
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Carrboro town council race: Aja Kelleher
Aja Kelleher is once again running for Town Council in Carrboro. Kelleher, who was a registered Republican until July of 2020, has come out against the new library project in downtown Carrboro, a project some 3o-odd years in the making. From NextDoor: Only…that’s not exactly accurate. There’s quite a large body of research that shows […]
Posted inFrom the archives
The Chapel Hill News: 1991
We miss group blogging. We have been writing for a long time on Twitter and Facebook and NextDoor and over email and neighborhood listservs — and we’ve decided to test out putting everything in one place. A number of us routinely attend council meetings and boards and commissions, and we’ll put our notes from those […]