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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, American Legion, Chapel Hill Town Council, Parks and Rec
We hold elections for a reason: A response to David Adams
David Adams, a local resident who’s not happy with Chapel Hill’s elected officials, wrote a piece in Chapelboro expressing his opposition to five council members’ petition asking to explore the use of the American Legion site for affordable housing and a park. This is something we’ve discussed frequently here at the Blog Blog (here, here, […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill, Housing
Factchecking Adam Searing’s newsletter: Let’s talk about housing
Chapel Hill Town councilmember Adam Searing wrote a new edition of his newsletter this weekend, and as with other newsletters he’s written, this one gets some facts wrong. Today, we’re going to address two errors. The first has to do with the recent award of low-income housing tax credits to the Trinity Court affordable housing […]