Last Wednesday’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting featured a real humdinger of a presentation from Rod Stevens and Jen Keesmaat. First, some background: Stevens and Keesmaat are both planners; Stevens, of Bainbridge Island, Washington, wrote the 2021 Housing Report that said we need more housing, and Keesmaat, formerly Toronto’s chief planner, is currently leading our […]
Kyle Onda
Kyle Onda lives in Carrboro, and is an Associate Director of the Center for Geospatial Solutions at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He is a PhD Candidate in City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he studies the political economy of urban water services reforms.
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University towns facing similar obstacles should work together on solutions: Part I of III
“All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This line, from Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, is usually quoted before one is about to describe something they see as uniquely difficult. We often hear this in Chapel Hill. Our history of development is troubled. Our “urban form” is challenging. Our politics […]