2023 ELECTION

A Few Reasons Why Chapel Hill Needs New Leadership

September 5, 2023

  • Fiscal mismanagement resulting in unfunded town services and huge property tax increase that could have been avoided with responsible spending
  • Underpaying essential town workers while overpaying top 5% of workers
  • Overspending on private consultants when local expertise or town staff is/was available
  • Unintended consequences of poor policy decisions resulted in additional town spending.
  • Development policies that displace many of the towns small and unique businesses
  • Mortgaging the town hall to pay for Elliott Road Extension
  • Town is using bond funds (and land) for purposes other than those voted on
  • Running a traffic model with multiple flawed inputs, such as applying it during Spring Break and using cars much smaller than current SUVs
  • Developing a town-wide traffic model without applying it to town projects
  • Creating a housing policy that disincentivizes affordable for sale housing for all
  • Displacing essential worker from their Chapel Hill homes by replacing affordable apartments with luxury apartments
  • Failure to prioritize small local and non-profit developer projects
  • Creation of economically segregated ‘affordable’ housing instead of building mixed income housing
  • Misguided plans to cut down acres of trees to create a containment basin
  • Proposal to build affordable housing on a toxic coal ash site, next to RR tracks, on land that floods, and adjacent to I-40
  • Permitting clearcutting of old growth trees while not replacing them with canopy trees
  • Failure to plant canopy trees and safe sidewalks along major routes used by walkers and bus riders
  • Failure to support a town engineering department to provide oversight for complex projects such as the Estes Road project
  • Developing a connectivity plan that has not been implemented
  • Permitting five drive-ins at University Place — including one next to Binkley Baptists’ Day Care Center

2023 Election Posts

Old Council goes out with a bang…

This old Chapel Hill Council is going out with a bang.  On the agenda Wednesday November 15 is a resolution that would extend the town and urban services southward along 15-501. On the Monday night work session is a discussion on truncating  advisory board...

What’s Gone Wrong with Chapel Hill Development Decisions?

Here is what a new Council could do:     Enforce our tree ordinance and apply existing buffer regulations. Reinstate single family zoning because it does not create affordable housing in a college town. Start listening to individuals, petitions from hundreds of...

Will “Complete Communities” be another Blue Hill?

The Chapel Hill town council majority has embarked on yet another framework for development, this time termed Complete Communities, a concept advanced by a Canadian consultant at a cost of over $470,000. At the same time, town staff have removed all but two advisory...

CHALT Candidate Interviews 2023

CHALT interviewed all the candidates in the upcoming Chapel Hill election. Here are the six questions we asked them and the link to their video responses on YouTube. Click here to view all the Candidate Responses on our YouTube Channel. Instructions given to each...

Practical Policies to Address the Housing Crisis

CHALT sponsored three webinars this past year on how Chapel Hill can address the housing crisis. You can watch the video of each at the following U-tube links. The video links can be found here. Part I: Origins of the Housing Crisis: How We Got Here Part II: Part II:...

An Open Letter to Karen Stegman

Council member Karen Stegman attacked CHALT in a newsletter this week. https://karenstegman.substack.com/  CHALT was formed in 2015 to provide a counterweight to the development lobby in order to give neighborhoods a more effective voice and improve Council decisions....

WCHL Candidate Interviews

Listen to all the candidates for Mayor and Chapel Hill Council on these recorded candidate interviews by WCHL. https://chapelboro.com/news/election/2023-candidate-introductions-chapel-hill-municipal-races

Candidate Forums

Candidates for Chapel Hill Mayor and Town Council will be attending many community forums. We encourage you to participate in our democracy and become an informed voter.  Sept. 19th, 5-6:30pm: NEXT, CEF, and IFC Candidate Forum - Fellowship Hall, Binkley Baptist...

2023 Election Candidate Websites

The best voter is an informed voter. Here are all the candidates running for Mayor and Chapel Hill Town Council. Click on their names below to visit their campaign websites and learn more about their priorities and experience: Jess Anderson - Chapel Hill Mayor Adam...

Recent 2023 Election Posts


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