by admin | Jun 19, 2022 | Town Planning
It was a late June evening in 2021 when council members addressed a gigantic council agenda in one of the last meetings before summer break. University Place and the developer RAM brought for the fifth time a massive permit request for extensive redevelopment of...
by admin | Jun 17, 2022 | Health, Town Planning
A Community Information Session on Chapel Hill’s Coal Ash, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, June 22 Concerned community members in partnership with ACT Against Coal Ash, Chapel Hill Organization for Clean Energy (CHOCE), Friends of Bolin Creek, the Blue Ridge Environmental...
by admin | Jun 14, 2022 | Green Space, Town Planning
This article was originally posted in our June 15, 2022 newsletter, Chapel Hill Matters, and was updated on June 19, 2022 with these changes: Corrected the amount of cemetery acreage that was sold by the town to DHIC for 8.5 acres. The price was not one dollar but...
by admin | May 28, 2022 | Town Planning
It is apparent that there is a majority on the Town Council ready to approve the Aura permit despite the big problems community members have identified. Estes Neighbors and so many like minded people in town believe what amounts to another high rent apartment complex...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Town Planning
Bob Stipe, a revered professor of planning and design professor at NC School of Design and professor of Law at UNC’s Institute of Government, would often take his classes for a walk down Franklin Street. He would ask students to identify elements what made the...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Affordable Housing, Health, Town Planning
Until now, CHALT has not formally taken a position on the redevelopment of 828 MLK, a known coal ash dump site. Here’s our take. We are concerned that this is an environmental justice issue in the making. Before the Town Council decided on March 23 to move...
