Last September, we excitedly tweeted that Chapel Hill was getting ready to make it hugely easier to build “missing middle” housing. Tomorrow, the Chapel Hill Town Council will vote on a text amendment that will allow people to build duplexes and small homes throughout our community, not just in a handful of neighborhoods. There are […]
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The proposed text amendment is good policy, one that will actually save Chapel Hill.
Our housing crisis did not take shape in a day, and the tools proposed in the text amendment are responses to the recognition that we need more opportunities for housing in our community, and that we needed more than just new, large rental apartments. Even CHALT leaders have recognized that “missing middle” infill development is […]
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Who Needs Housing Choices?
This Wednesday, the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear, and possibly vote, on the Housing Choices for Complete Communities text amendment. As we enthusiastically wrote back last September, this proposal will make it easier to build small- and medium-sized housing in our community, which will give all of us more housing options. Having more housing […]
Posted inChapel Hill, From the archives, Housing
The five-year-long struggle to build Elliott Woods
Where we left off: With the election of Howard Lee and two political allies, the Chapel Hill Town Council finally voted to approve the rezoning necessary to build Elliott Woods. Part 6: For more than a year, the Inter-Church Council had patiently waited for the stars to align so they could start building Elliott Woods. […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: Christian Matthaeus
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is Christian Matthaeus, my family and I live in a single-family home in Lake Forest, Chapel Hill. We have three young children, two of whom are life-long Chapel Hill residents. Our family has depended on […]
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Orange-Chatham Sierra Club comments on the Housing Choices proposal
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is Kathy Kaufman and I am representing the Orange-Chatham Group of the Sierra Club in place of our chair, Melissa McCullough, who is at the Green Tie Awards Dinner in Raleigh. I want to remind […]