Last week’s Chapel Hill town council meeting was so jam-packed with good news that we’re still processing it, as if it were a long awaited 10th Taylor Swift album dropping at midnight. From dueling petitions on the future of the Legion site to a public apology for Chapel Hill’s illegal raid on a Black business […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Greenway
Your poop ? and Bolin Creek
Recently, a social media post from anti-greenway group Friends of Bolin Creek caught our attention. It seemed to suggest that paving a 10-foot-wide path along an existing 30-foot-wide sewer easement next to Bolin Creek would be equivalent to deforestation. This is bananas. The proposed greenway along Bolin Creek would be built on top of a […]
Posted inCarrboro, Bike and Walk, Carrboro Town Council, Greenway
We must restart the much-needed conversation around greenways in Carrboro
Stalling or delaying a project happens a lot in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. We often hear: More time is needed, or More studies are needed, or We must wait for our understaffed town staff to answer a long list of questions before proceeding. Delaying or stalling a project stops progress. It makes projects more expensive, […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Greenway
Live Blogging the Nov. 16 Chapel Hill Town Council Meeting
We’re thirty minutes into the Nov. 16 meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council, and in the words of The Carpenters…”we’ve only just begun.” 7:30: We open with a petition from the Save Legion Park group. Virginia Gray opens with quoting Joni Mitchell. She notes “Some of us remember Joni Mitchell. Others have never heard […]
Posted inCarrboro, CHALT, Connectivity, Greenway, Parks and Rec
Let’s build Bolin Creek’s missing greenway and make Carrboro more connected!
You can sign up for updates to build out Carrboro’s missing greenway network on the Carrboro Linear Parks Project website. Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a time loop, destined to rehash the same issues over and over again without ever making progress. Imagine this: Nancy Pelosi’s the Speaker of the House, we’re approaching […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
“It’s not just about a parking deck”: East Rosemary Deck costs balloon to $50 million, putting other town priorities at risk
This week the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear an update on their biggest priority, in budgetary terms, a new 1100-space parking deck on East Rosemary Street. When the council voted to approve the deck in October 2020, the deck was expected to cost $33.2 million, already an increase over an earlier estimate of $28 […]