Welcome back to the nation’s most-read preview of Chapel Hill Planning Commission meetings! This time we’ll be reviewing the meeting that’s going to take place on Tuesday, October 17. We’ll be discussing the Planning Commission agenda, which is on the Town’s agenda website. Just scroll down and click “Meeting Details” next to the upcoming meeting. That […]
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Bikes, Buses, and Trucks, Oh My! Chapel Hill Reimagines Downtown Streets
Should Chapel Hill eliminate bike lanes on Rosemary Street? Move its bus stops off of Franklin and on to Rosemary? Upgrade its protected bike lanes on Franklin? How should our downtown streets look and feel, whether one is in a car, on the bus, on a bike, using a mobility scooter, or walking? This week, […]
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How’s the Chapel Hill Town Council feeling about the proposed wet lab on Franklin?
On March 22, the Chapel Hill Town Council was presented with a concept plan for a new wet lab at 306 W. Franklin Street. The wet lab is being proposed by Longfellow, a life-sciences-focused real estate firm that owns similar properties in Durham and RTP. The purpose of the presentation was to receive Council’s feedback […]
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Three Things We Learned From Watching the March 22 Chapel Hill Town Council Meeting
From the start of the March 22 meeting of Chapel Hill Town Council, it seemed that everyone was bracing for a long night. Despite a relatively slim agenda, the council revisited several contentious items from the past and discussed, for the first time, a wet lab that’s proposed for downtown. Here’s what we learned: People […]
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Adam Searing is Chapel Hill’s FOX News
Adam Searing is probably running to be the next mayor of Chapel Hill. He’s also a demagogue who routinely spreads misinformation and appears to prefer creating rather than solving problems. We all know how FOX News operates. It whips viewers into a frenzy with information that is false but taps into their deep-seated fears, all […]
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It was a bit of a week at Triangle Blog Blog
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 […]