Tom Smith is at it again with his 3rd Vermiculture Workshop coming up this Saturday. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s comprehensive. Make the world’s best soil amendment and help save the world from the ravages of climate change. Read details from a previous article here. If you ever tried to make compost in less than […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Greenway, Housing, Parks and Rec
Results from the poll on when and how Chapel Hill should spend bond funds
A week ago, we asked readers how they would spend $50 million in bond fund across six categories. They responded with gusto – over 330 people filled out the survey. Some caveats This was obviously not a representative poll. We don’t know who responded, their demographic characteristics, nor even if they live in Chapel Hill. […]
Posted inOrange County
Thoughts on Jennifer Moore, Bonnie Hauser, and the upcoming Orange County School Board runoff
In March, incumbent Jennifer Moore decisively won an Orange County school board seat. She received more than 400 votes than the next vote-getter (Bonnie Hauser), a margin of more than 8 percent. If we lived in one of the 40 states where runoff elections are not allowed, that would have been that. A decisive victory, […]
Posted inCarrboro, Connectivity, DCHC MPO, Greenway, Transportation, Triangle Region
The Carrboro Bike Plan, South Greensboro Street sidewalk, and Phase 2 of the Bolin Creek Greenway are being funded!
Earlier today, the board of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (“the MPO”)—which is responsible for regional transportation planning in the western Triangle—awarded funding for several projects in our area. Among the funded projects are three big ones in Carrboro: Implementation of the Carrboro Bicycle Transportation Plan Phase 2 of the Bolin Creek Greenway South […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Vision Zero
Chapel Hill is finally updating its traffic calming policy. Hooray!
As the former New York governor Mario Cuomo liked to say, politicians campaign in poetry, but govern in prose. If we were to revise this statement for Chapel Hill, we’d add a caveat—but not without a study, a community engagement process, and a policy first. That said, we were delighted to learn late last week […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, Economic development, Guide
Parking in Downtown Chapel Hill? A guide to using ParkMobile.
I’m often hanging out somewhere downtown, and I occasionally see people looking perplexed at one of the touchscreen parking pay stations dotted around town. And yes, they’re confusing and often hard to see if it’s sunny out. But there’s a better way and it saves both time and aggravation. This post is designed to teach […]