Crowdsourcing research into Chapel Hill neighborhoods to identify legal restrictions that limit the ability to build anything other than a single-family detached home.
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BREAKING: Britany Waddell named new Planning Director for Chapel Hill
The new Planning Director for Chapel Hill is Britany Waddell, AICP, who previously served as the Assistant Director of Planning and Development for the City of Raleigh. Waddell has almost 20 years of experience working in planning practices and town/gown issues. She has also served as a Community Development Planner for Monroe, NC and Director […]
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It was a bit of a week at Triangle Blog Blog
It has BEEN A WEEK! With the winter holidays well in the rear view window, there’s a buzz of activity around local government, and we have been doing our best at the Blog Blog to try to keep up. We’ve published quite a few articles over the last week, and thought it would be helpful […]
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Liveblog: Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, January 25, 2023
Giddy up, cowboys – we’re in for a world of excitement tonight. Here’s the agenda, and we’ll try to keep up – though please note tonight’s host may need to leave to read some bedtime books for some junior Triangle Blog Bloggers at some point. 6:48 A line has formed for people who want to […]
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How has the grad student stipend at UNC changed over time? This PhD student mapped it out.
This report compiles data from a number of resources and historical newspaper articles to give the broader context of the fight for a livable graduate student wage in Chapel Hill.
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Adam Searing and the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
It’s not often that you can actually hear people rolling their eyes. So I guess we’re lucky to have a council member like Adam Searing. As we have noted elsewhere, Searing has a certain gift for, shall we say, exaggeration. We’ve documented this several times over his tenure on the council, fact-checking his remarks on […]