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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Posted inHousing
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 […]
Posted inGreenway
Debunking misinformation about the Bolin Creek Greenway
Related: Learn more about Carrboro’s Linear Park Project and sign up for updates to build out Carrboro’s greenway network. My family lives within walking distance of Carrboro’s Bolin Creek, but we frequently drive to Umstead Park in Chapel Hill to walk along Bolin Creek’s paved path. With the envisioned paved Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro […]
Posted inChapel Hill
Chapel Hill’s Woodstock, but for Population Control
In the spring of 1975, UNC hosted a series of events on the subject of population control. For the uninitiated, population control was a popular topic in the 1970s, premised on the belief that humanity’s only hope for survival was to dramatically reduce our population. Fans of 1970s sci-fi have probably seen Soylent Green (1973), which […]
Posted inChapel Hill
Our blog bloggers look forward to 2023
Happy 2023! We have a lot to look forward to this year, including: Chapel Hill’s official application for the North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project Progress on extending the Bolin Creek Greenway to Carrboro, and Zoning changes that will make it easier to build housing in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. This year is also an election […]
Posted inBike and Walk
Bolin Creek Greenway Alternative Bike Map: “Not something I’d ever let my kids ride on”
For the past few weeks, an anti-greenway group in Carrboro and Chapel Hill has been sharing a map purportedly showing ‘alternative bike routes’ that could take the place of paving the Bolin Creek Greenway in Carrboro. The map looks like they threw imaginary bike lane spaghetti at a map of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Many […]