Ok, now THIS is a big deal. Chapel Hill is getting ready to make it hugely easier to build “missing middle” housing. What is missing middle housing? It’s all the housing between single-family homes and big multi-family apartments like: Duplexes Triplexes, and Cottage apartments. For years, like many other communities, most land in Chapel Hill […]
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Posted inApril Fools
Chapel Hill pushes Missing Medieval Housing
Today, April 1, the Chapel Hill Planning Department is preparing a new proclamation to help address the housing shortage while also acknowledging the town’s rich architectural heritage. Housing Choices for Peasants and Lords, or, colloquially, Missing Medieval Housing, is designed to supply housing for impoverished lower classes as well as royalty who inherited their title […]
Posted inHousing
It’s January 23, 2023 and there is currently *1* home for sale in Chapel Hill for middle income buyers
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. […]
Posted inCarrboro
Let’s build Bolin Creek’s missing greenway and make Carrboro more connected!
You can sign up for updates to build out Carrboro’s missing greenway network on the Carrboro Linear Parks Project website. Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a time loop, destined to rehash the same issues over and over again without ever making progress. Imagine this: Nancy Pelosi’s the Speaker of the House, we’re approaching […]
Posted inCHALT, Chapel Hill
The continuing predictability of CHALT’s hypocrisy
One of the things that you can count on with CHALT is its predictability. (CHALT, aka Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town.” is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its inception in 2014/2015. They formed a PAC in 2017, recruit and endorse local candidates […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Housing, Orange County
WASMPBA: What do we want Southern Chapel Hill to look like in 30-50 years?
It took us a long time to write about the potential extension of the water and sewage service boundary in the southern part of Chapel Hill because we wanted to make sure we had a handle on the terminology. That took a long time. We talked to a lot of people, including town staffers and […]