I’m a parent in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District, and since the school year started, we’ve received a text, phone call and email almost every day telling us that our kindergartener’s bus is going to be late. The school district has said there are a number of options on the table to help with the […]
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This week in batshit NextDoor threads that veer off course and make us sigh
What a busy weekend. Thanksgiving traffic, football games, and a crazy-ass NextDoor thread that can only be described as “a virtual Thanksgiving table with your um, more challenging, side of the family.” But in the interest of civic trust, we steeled ourselves with a six pack and a half gallon of spiked eggnog, waded in, […]
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To get people out of cars, we need to maintain, not just build, sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails.
In June 2019, while out running, I tripped while crossing an intersection. This didn’t happen only because I’m clumsy; the road I was crossing had been built around 2010 and never completed, so it was missing a final layer of asphalt. There’s a sharp cliff between the gutter pan and the street. It’s a tripping […]
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An over-reliance on conditional zoning is holding back development in Chapel Hill
This is part of our harder truths series. North Carolina’s 552 municipalities operate under charters granted by the North Carolina General Assembly, which gives them the powers and authorities granted to them by the state constitution and state statutes. But municipalities in NC have limited “home rule,” which means that they can only adopt policies […]
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Ugly and Unacceptable: An Evening with the Chapel Hill Community Design Commission
If there were a soap opera about Chapel Hill, it would be called As the World Burns and the lead villain would be the Community Design Commission (CDC). Soap opera villains tend to be rich and powerful and will take any steps to protect their oil wealth or media empire. The CDC may not have […]