A Third Webinar on How to Address the Housing Crisis

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...

Chapel Hill Begins New Planning Effort

 David Adams, resident of Colony Woods, sent this letter  the Mayor and Council, Dear Mayor Hemminger and Chapel Hill Town Council members, Mayor Hemminger, Council Members, and Consultant Keesmaat: I attended the Town Council work session on June 21st in which you...

Chapel Hill Drops the Ball at University Place

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...

At What Cost? Event on Coal Ash

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...