As Chapel Hill wrestles with whether and how to expand housing choice, it’s worth documenting how many homes here are available to middle income buyers. Our method is simple: we determine the maximum amount of home a middle income buyer can afford, then check to see how many homes are for sale in Chapel Hill. […]
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Only 50 people have filled out the splash pad and inclusive playground survey. Can you fill it out?
Splash Pad correspondent Mel Kramer with junior correspondents Asher (5) and Kai (4) here. We’ve been anxiously following the splash pad dealings in Chapel Hill and awaiting the day when we don’t have to drive to Burlington or Pittsboro to get our splash pad on. (Related: TBB’s Chapel Hill Splash Pad Location Activation Tracker.) And […]
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Questions, questions, so many questions about property value and neighborhood character
Chapel Hill’s proposal to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their own properties is going before the Town Council on Wednesday January 25 for a public hearing, and it’s sure to draw a large crowd of public commenters. There will be a lot of people there speaking in favor of the […]
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The Chapel Hill Public Library has personalized reading recommendations
We recently learned that the Chapel Hill Public Library offers a really cool service: They’ll send you personalized reading recommendations (and even put those books on hold for you) if you tell them recent books you’ve liked and disliked. We’ve tried the service out (for a 5-year-old) and received back great recommendations that were spot-on […]
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We need to remember what we are
Chapel Hill is a college town. More specifically, Chapel Hill is a research university town. Two of the top 13 institutions in the country that receive federal research funds are either in Chapel Hill or immediately adjacent to Chapel Hill. Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill received $2.4 billion in sponsored research and development funds for federal […]
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Saving Purple Bowl (and other local businesses)
It’s no secret that the Town of Chapel Hill wants more commercial development here, and there are good reasons for that: It could take some of the tax burden off residents who now contribute a higher share of the town’s property taxes than neighboring communities. It diversifies our economy. Economically healthy places have multiple industries […]