This Wednesday, the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear, and possibly vote, on the Housing Choices for Complete Communities text amendment. As we enthusiastically wrote back last September, this proposal will make it easier to build small- and medium-sized housing in our community, which will give all of us more housing options. Having more housing […]
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The five-year-long struggle to build Elliott Woods
Where we left off: With the election of Howard Lee and two political allies, the Chapel Hill Town Council finally voted to approve the rezoning necessary to build Elliott Woods. Part 6: For more than a year, the Inter-Church Council had patiently waited for the stars to align so they could start building Elliott Woods. […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: Christian Matthaeus
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is Christian Matthaeus, my family and I live in a single-family home in Lake Forest, Chapel Hill. We have three young children, two of whom are life-long Chapel Hill residents. Our family has depended on […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: John Wallace
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. My name is John Wallace, I work in the School of Public Health at UNC, and am fortunate to be able to afford to live in Chapel Hill. As a public health researcher supporting community health improvement […]
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Why I support the housing choices proposal: Carolyn Klamm
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. I am in support of this policy. We must remove restrictions on our housing if we are to build a sustainable future. Sustainability, to me, means a future where we do not pollute our air with car […]
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Why I support housing choices: Abby Parcell
We are publishing statements made during the May 24, 2023 public hearing on the Town’s housing choices proposal. As a longtime Chapel Hill resident who has worked for the university and in the nonprofit sector, but who hasn’t been able to afford homeownership here, I’m grateful for gentle density. For nearly a decade, I have […]