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Six facts the latest CHALT blog post gets wrong
This piece was written by Melody Kramer, Caroline Dwyer, Martin Johnson and John Rees. We hadn’t intended to spend so much time pointing out misinformation circulating in Chapel Hill, but we feel it’s important that our community have high-quality and accurate information on what’s happening with local civic affairs. And so we head back to […]
Posted inChapel Hill, CHALT, Chapel Hill Town Council, Parks and Rec
Facts about the American Legion site: A response to CHALT’s ‘A New Park…’ Blog Post
This piece was written by Melody Kramer with input from Geoff Green, Caroline Dwyer, John Rees, Stephen Whitlow, and Martin Johnson. Update – June 16, 2022 On June 5, CHALT published an anonymous blog post (“A New Park…) containing serious accusations of misconduct against several Town of Chapel Hill council members without any supporting evidence. Our […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing
How do we respond to change? (A Twitter thread)
We woke up to find many responses to our Twitter thread from yesterday on plans to 1) build a park and 2) add much-needed missing middle housing to our town. Let’s examine some of the responses, shall we? First, we should say that anyone can write to the mayor and town council — and everyone […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Parks and Rec
Paying for a park at the American Legion site
The nice thing about signing a petition is it allows you to feel virtuous without the need to contemplate any hard choices or competing priorities. And what’s more virtuous than advocating for a community good when you don’t have to figure out how to pay for it? That’s no doubt the reason behind the relative […]
Posted inChapel Hill, Chapel Hill Town Council, Housing, Parks and Rec
A Tale of Two (or maybe Four) Petitions: Determining the Future of the American Legion Property
tl;dr – A CHALT petition circulating calls for park on the American Legion site. The petition is misleading: The plan has ALWAYS been to build a park on the American Legion site. Five members of Town Council announced plans to build a “world class park” on the site last week, in addition to some retail […]