This week, Jennifer Keesmaat and her team come back to Chapel Hill for another discussion about complete communities. At the previous meeting in August, she discussed her solution to Chapel Hill’s problems—greenways!—and suggested that she was interested in crowdsourcing where Chapel Hill might expand its greenway network. Of course, this is Chapel Hill, which means […]
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Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing, Planning Board: Chapel Hill
Thirteen harder truths about Chapel Hill
Last month, planner Jennifer Keesmaat presented the Chapel Hill Town Council with three “hard truths.” (To summarize, the truths were 1) Chapel Hill is exclusive; 2) Our planning processes are bad; 3) Our “urban form” is also bad.) Keesmaat promised that there are more hard truths to come out during the complete communities planning process, […]
Posted inOrange County Board of County Commissioners, Carrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
A look at the week ahead: June 20, 2022
The local governing bodies are winding down their work before the summer recess, but there are still a few key items taking place this week, June 20-24, 2022. Two annual budgets are on track to be approved, and the Chapel Hill Town Council is getting an update about one of its many ongoing planning projects. […]
Posted inOrange County, Volunteer
Call for Volunteers: Orange County Property Tax Appeals
As we detailed in our previous post, Orange County has sent out property revaluation notices with significant increases. In 2021, when the last revaluation was completed, residents in Chapel Hill’s historically black Northside neighborhood successfully challenged significant property tax inequities. Northside homeowners saw much higher increased in property values than nearby affluent areas with typically […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Climate
We’re liveblogblogging the hearing on UNC’s plans to burn PFAS-containing pellets
Hello! We’re at Town Hall where people are streaming in for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ) public hearing tomorrow at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 6pm to consider UNC’s request to modify its air quality permit to allow it to also burn engineered pellets in its boilers at […]
Posted in828 MLK, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council
Public hearing on coal ash: Let’s stick to the facts
Many of the organizations opposed to housing and greenways in Chapel Hill and Carrboro look organic and unique but, as we’ve pointed out in the past, share key characteristics indicating that they’re run by the same small group of people. For instance, Friends of Bolin Creek and CHALT share a PO Box and an IP […]