Happy Wednesday! Here’s what we’re reading. Liveblogging the Carrboro Town Council’s discussion of the Carrboro Comprehensive Plan (2022-2042) On Monday Patrick McDonough, published a thorough review of the draft. Last night, the Council has the opportunity to approve the draft, or send it back for further revisions. Here are the highlights. Asheville is in crisis. The […]
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Liveblogging the Carrboro Town Council’s discussion of the Carrboro Comprehensive Plan (2022-2042)
Tonight (Tuesday, May 10), the Carrboro Town Council is meeting to discuss its new comprehensive plan, titled Carrboro Connects (The last one was called Carrboro 2020, but appears to not meet the state’s definition of a “comprehensive plan”). While Chapel Hill has put together many comprehensive plans in the past, this is a first for Carrboro. […]
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Jenny Schuetz on America’s (and Chapel Hill’s) Housing Crisis
While many of us have recognized for a long time that Chapel Hill is an expensive place to live, the Rod Stevens report seems to have cut through the noise and raised Chapel Hillians’ awareness of the extent of the problem. According to Stevens, the report was commissioned to answer town council’s question “Are we building too […]
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Lunch Links: May 9, 2022
Happy Monday! Below are some good reads that caught our eye over the past few days. Bike racks have been installed at the early voting site in Carrboro Just in from our Town Manager: “The bike rack [at the Town Hall Annex on Bim Street] will be installed by the first of next week.” […]
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Let’s Keep Talking about Bikes!
Recently, Carrboro Town Council candidate Aja Kelleher was quoted as saying, “For God’s sake … Can we just not talk about bicycles for five minutes?” She made this statement while commenting on a recent Town Council meeting that included questions about bike parking in its discussion of the most recent downtown parking study. Kelleher seems […]
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A look at the week ahead: May 9, 2022
Here is a look at some of the local government meetings scheduled for this week, May 9-13, 2022: Chapel Hill Town Council The Chapel Hill Town Council will be holding a virtual work session on Wednesday (May 11) at 6:30 pm — view the agenda here, access the Zoom here if you want to comment, and it’s […]