At a recent backyard fundraiser in the Glendale neighborhood, Town Council candidate Renuka Soll said that Chapel Hill spends 4 dollars per person on parks. She repeated this number in an email to Chapel Hill’s tennis community, at the 9/14 candidate forum hosted by the Democratic Party of Orange County, and in a Twitter video […]
Posted inAffordable Housing, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing
We now have a comprehensive affordable housing plan and investment strategy! What’s next?
On Wednesday evening, the Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved the town’s first ever comprehensive affordable housing plan and investment strategy. The plan – read it here – identifies key housing priorities for the next five years and the resources needed to implement it. The vote did not, however, allocate those resources. The investment strategy […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill
Factcheck: A new CHALT blog post is chock-full of factual errors
Labor Day marks the traditional beginning of the municipal election campaign season—one of our favorite times of the year. And earlier this week the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) launched a new website. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing
What’s in Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing Plan that the Town Council is Voting on Tonight?
For the past nine months, town staff have worked with HR&A Advisors – a housing and land use consultant that in my experience does excellent work – and local stakeholders to develop a comprehensive affordable housing plan. While the town has long focused on affordable housing, this represents the first comprehensive affordable housing plan in […]
Posted inUNC
These emails from UNC were sent 12 minutes apart
There are reports of another armed and dangerous individual on or near the UNC campus. Many of us work, study, and teach at UNC. Twelve minutes before we received the Alert Carolina telling us to go inside and stay away from windows, we received a feedback form asking how the response to the shooting two […]
Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Election 2023
Interview: CHCCS School Board Candidate Vickie Feaster Fornville
As we noted in our post about vetting school board candidates, we have sent questionnaires to each school board candidate and are publishing them in the order received. Questions were compiled by board members of both Triangle Blog Blog and Bridging the Gap, and attendees of a four-part community read and discussion series on reparations […]