by admin | May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Town’s proposed new housing types for family neighborhoods. The zoning proposal has been changed again, this time to provide two new types of housing that developers could build on residential lots in family neighborhoods (R-1, R-2, and R-3 zoning...
by admin | May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter to Mayor and Councilors, More duplex clusters might be coming to our single-family neighborhoods soon if the proposed elimination of single-family zoning protections is approved. Here is the small cluster of two duplexes on Hillsborough Street that I reported...
by admin | May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Letter to Mayor and Councilors, The last time Chapel Hill experimented with zoning we got Blue Hill. The outcome of proposed changes to single-family zoning might also be different than the one you intend. One idealized vision of what our community should look like...
by admin | May 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
This case demonstrates how developers can buy relatively expensive single family homes, tear them down, and build lucrative student rental duplexes. Developers could do even better by buying the many less expensive houses in family neighborhoods around town, and they...
by admin | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday night, April 26th, the Chapel Hill Town Council will discuss UNC Heath’s request for a permit to develop their property at Eastowne. This topic is the last on the Council agenda. The meeting materials are here. UNC Health is developing a new campus on...
by admin | Sep 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
CHALT has organized three webinars to address the housing crisis. In the first program we examined the national causes of the housing crisis with Peter Sabonis and the local causes with former Mayor Kevin Foy. In the second we discussed the implications of Chapel...
