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American Legion

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With Legion Vote, Chapel Hill Town Council Shows Willingness to Address Hard Truths

by Martin JohnsonDecember 8, 2022December 31, 2022

What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were welcoming in a new Chapel Hill Town Council, one that we hoped would support affordable and abundant housing, invest in buses and greenways, and fix our broken planning systems. With an optimist’s heart, we were hopeful that the town council would tackle some […]

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Ugh. Factchecking CHALT (yes, again) on the Legion property

by Triangle BlogBlogDecember 7, 2022December 7, 2022

CHALT sent out a newsletter entitled “URGENT! Town Council to Vote on Legion Park TONIGHT!” earlier today.  That is one super scary headline. It’s also confusing because there’s no such thing as Legion Park (yet).  Moving past the headline, we noticed many errors in this newsletter. We found three in just the first paragraph. Three! […]

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We attended the American Legion meeting last night at the Chapel Hill Public Library.

by Triangle BlogBlogNovember 30, 2022November 30, 2022

There was a moment in the American Legion public meeting last night at the library where someone invited everyone in the room to the American Legion land this morning – it’s Wednesday – to clear wisteria. Dotty Foley of HOPE NC interrupted him. “We have to go to work to pay the rent,” she said. […]

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Please Let This Be the Last Time I Saw Richard

by Stephen WhitlowNovember 29, 2022November 29, 2022

The November 16th Town Council meeting was five hours long, but for my money the most compelling part of the evening was a 15-minute span in which several speakers spoke about the American Legion property. The town bought the property in 2016 with the intention of building a park and housing on it.  Up first […]

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Affordable Housing and a Park: the Legion Property Committee Issues Recommendations

by Martin JohnsonNovember 27, 2022December 14, 2022

Last May, five members of the Chapel Hill Town Council signed a petition to ask the Town Manager to begin the process of developing an “implementable plan” for the development of the American Legion property, a 36-acre piece of land that the town purchased for $7.9 million in 2016. More specifically, the petition asked the […]

Posted inChapel Hill

We hold elections for a reason: A response to David Adams

by Geoff GreenNovember 14, 2022

David Adams, a local resident who’s not happy with Chapel Hill’s elected officials, wrote a piece in Chapelboro expressing his opposition to five council members’ petition asking to explore the use of the American Legion site for affordable housing and a park. This is something we’ve discussed frequently here at the Blog Blog (here, here, […]

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