Yonah Freemark is the research director of the Land Use Lab at the Urban Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of land use, affordable housing, transportation, and governance. He has published peer-reviewed scholarship in numerous journals, including Urban Affairs Review, Politics & Society, Housing Policy Debate, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Thank you for doing […]
Posted inCarrboro, Chapel Hill, Election 2023, voting-info
Council Candidate Interview and Questionnaire Compendium
Updated October 22, 2023 with additional questionnaires and interviews. Just about every civic organization in Chapel Hill and Carrboro sends out questionnaires to candidates asking about their key issues. The responses to these questionnaires are often used to help decide endorsements and are often reprinted in full. Here is a link to all of the […]
Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill, Greenway, Uncategorized
Can I interview you about the greenway?
The Town of Carrboro has completed its survey of the future Bolin Creek Greenway alignments. The Town Council should be receiving the results of the survey soon, but one thing the survey couldn’t measure was how future users of the creekside alignment would rate the experience. My daughter Arlie (age 7) and I were wondering […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Parks and Rec
Hooray! Chapel Hill is getting a new parks master plan!
Buried deep within the agenda for the Parks, Greenway and Recreation Commission meeting on September 19, 2023 is a nugget that should make everyone in Chapel Hill who loves parks and greenways super happy: A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) has been drafted to find an architecture, engineering and landscape architect firm to update the 2013 […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing
About those “ugly” apartment buildings in Blue Hill
As campaigning ramps up, we are again hearing a lot about “ugly” apartments in Blue Hill. The Berkshire, perhaps the most hated apartment building in town, has been driving people crazy for almost 8 years now (nobody lives near the Berkshire, so even if you accept that it is unattractive, it should really only bother […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill Town Council, Election 2023
You can’t keep a good blogblog down: we respond to Adam Searing’s attack
We don’t want to spend time fact checking. We’d much rather be covering pickleball, or splash pads, or Raising Cane’s. But so it goes. Earlier today, mayoral candidate Adam Searing wrote a newsletter entitled: The Triangle Blog Blog Isn’t Real News. It’s Dark-Money Attack Politics. Let’s all pause for a second and have a good […]