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, […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill, Economic development
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 […]
Posted inChapel Hill Town Council, Development review, Downtown, Housing, Small business
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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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 […]
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A recap of a not-so-merry conversation held on Christmas Day in the little town of Chapel Hill
Yo tax nerds: We recently published a piece about how much a bunch of new apartment buildings pay in taxes in Chapel Hill. (Spoiler: A lot.) The piece itself was quite focused, though we did link to Matt Bailey’s piece examining town expenditures and later published this piece by David Anderson further looking at town […]