The nice thing about signing a petition is it allows you to feel virtuous without the need to contemplate any hard choices or competing priorities. And what’s more virtuous than advocating for a community good when you don’t have to figure out how to pay for it? That’s no doubt the reason behind the relative […]
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Lunch Links: May 27, 2022
Happy Friday, y’all! Here are a few articles that the Triangle Blog Blog crew have discussed or shared in the last 24 hours. Have ideas? Leave us a note in the Twitter comments! And have a fantastic weekend! We’ll catch you on the other side… Our friends down the (multiuse) trail in Charlotte are taking […]
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Lunch Links: May 26, 2022
We’ve made it to Thursday – well done, y’all! Here’s what’s on the media lunch menu at TBB headquarters. I’m kidding, we don’t have headquarters. Or do we…. It may be hard to believe, but modern zoning evolved as a practice of exclusion. Read more about the origins and impacts in this piece from KQED. […]
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Lunch Links: May 25, 2022
It’s a difficult day in a place and during a time when horrific events like yesterday’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas seem only seem to be increasing in frequency. Our collective thoughts are with the families who sent children to school yesterday morning with the reasonable expectation that they would be coming home at the end […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing, Parks and Rec
A Tale of Two (or maybe Four) Petitions: Determining the Future of the American Legion Property
tl;dr – A CHALT petition circulating calls for park on the American Legion site. The petition is misleading: The plan has ALWAYS been to build a park on the American Legion site. Five members of Town Council announced plans to build a “world class park” on the site last week, in addition to some retail […]
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How we refer to land in Chapel Hill matters
It took 37 years to agree on a plan to put housing on the Greene Tract, Kirk Ross wrote last year. When a development project moves slowly, it can be hard to remember all of the little details. Those details — like how we name things — can be used by opponents of the project […]