The third Tuesday of September will bring this month’s second Planning Commission meeting, and another installment in my effort to demystify the Town’s development review process and provide some insight on development applications that Town Council may be considering in the near future. (If you’d read the last edition, you’d have been one of the […]
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This week in Chapel Hill Planning Commission — Sept. 5, 2023
Welcome to a new, hopefully regular segment on the blogblog summarizing the agenda of the next Chapel Hill Planning Commission meeting. As a newly appointed member of the Planning Commission, I will be attending my first regularly scheduled meeting this week. My goal with this series is to help demystify the Town’s development review process […]
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Live Blog: Chapel Hill Town Council meeting June 21, 2023
Our live blog has now concluded! With the approval of the housing choices ordinance, we’re closing down. Thank you so much for reading. We plan to write further analysis in the coming days. Have a great night. (If you enjoyed this, please consider a small donation to TBB, which will help us improve our tech […]
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Chapel Hill’s historic district commission contemplates Chapel Hill’s future
The Chapel Hill Historic District Commission (HDC) focuses on the tiny details. If you’ve been to a meeting, you know that it’s an opportunity to spend an evening futzing over the minutiae of fence heights and lighting elements and window trim with people who have the authority to force you to spend tens of thousands […]
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5 takeaways from the February 15 Chapel Hill Town Council meeting
We have updated this post with a comment from Council Member Amy Ryan. The February 15 town council meeting was so sparsely attended—even the Mayor and the Mayor Pro Tem were absent—that council members joked about it several times. While it was a council meeting, the tone was more like a work session, with the […]
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Guide: Advisory Boards in Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill has 20-ish advisory boards and commissions. Carrboro has almost two dozen plus some task forces. Orange County has a few dozen. Why are advisory boards and commissions on our minds? They’re often the first civic step someone takes in our town, and many board members go onto run for Town Council and other […]