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Council Adopts Housing Text Amendments 6 – 3
The Town Council adopted the so-called "text amendments," which radically rezone single-family neighborhoods by permitting developers to build duplex apartment buildings of up to 3,000 square feet on single-family lots, was approved by a vote of 6 to 3 at the Town...
Letter Opposing NC Department of Transportation Design Plans for Eastowne Intersection
Sign the letter to the NC DOT objecting to the intersection design plans. The DOT plans propose a “North Quadrant Road” over I-40 that would connect New Hope Commons shopping center and Walmart with Eastowne and that would ruin the 20 acre site that is a North...
Chapel Hill Pride Parade – June 3
Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture Dept. is excited to announce the return of the Chapel Hill Pride Promenade. Join us as we march down Franklin Street to enjoy music, art, and more at 140 West Plaza. What: Second annual Pride Promenade marking the beginning...
Social Implications of Rezoning in Chapel Hill
What might we expect from the planned rezoning of single-family neighborhoods in our town? More housing, we are told, and a wider range of housing types. These latter are meant to answer a demand for so-called “missing middle” housing – although this designation, as...
The Town’s proposed new housing types for family neighborhoods
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 districts). ...
Developers Have Duplex Designs Ready To Go
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...
The Last Time Chapel Hill Experimented with Zoning We Got Blue Hill
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...
The Economics of Duplexes: A Chapel Hill Case Study
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...
Is Davie Circle Doomed to be a Duplex Complex?
Letter to Mayor and Councilors, Davie Circle was formed long ago as a family neighborhood located just off Franklin Street near the UNC campus. But now the neighborhood might face a much different future. Here are houses you see today in the Davie Circle neighborhood....
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