- 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
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...
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