In 2021, Gov. Roy Cooper signed House Bill 554 designating 2023 as the Year of the Trail in North Carolina. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be exploring each of the trails in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. We start today with the Bolin Creek Trail. Happy New Year, everyone! Bolin Creek Trail, Chapel Hill’s oldest trail, […]
Posted inGreenway, Bike and Walk, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Stormwater
A demographic analysis of who speaks at public meetings
It’s no surprise that the demographics of the people who spoke are wildly dissimilar from the Carrboro’s overall demographics, by any measure.
Posted inGreenway, Bike and Walk, Bike Beat
Bolin Creek Greenway: In Pictures
A photo gallery of places of note along the town of Chapel Hill’s Bolin Creek Greenway. Established in 1997
Posted inNextDoor
A recap of a not-so-merry conversation held on Christmas Day in the little town of Chapel Hill
Yo tax nerds: We recently published a piece about how much a bunch of new apartment buildings pay in taxes in Chapel Hill. (Spoiler: A lot.) The piece itself was quite focused, though we did link to Matt Bailey’s piece examining town expenditures and later published this piece by David Anderson further looking at town […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing
Do apartment buildings generate enough tax revenue to pay for the services they receive from the town?
Earlier this week, we asked a simple question — has recent large scale multi-family development in Chapel Hill improved the extent to which residential development as a whole pays for itself in terms of taxes paid versus public services consumed? We wrote that this question was based in part on a town-funded cost of services […]
Posted inUNC, Chapel Hill
CHYDARU: The abandoned experimental youth prison run by UNC
For a brief period of time in the 1960s, UNC ran an experimental youth prison near what is now the Mason Farm Biological Preserve. This morning I came across the ruins of an experimental youth prison UNC ran over by Mason Farm in the 60s. It was called CHYDARU. Here are a brief & editorial […]