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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 Defense...
A New Park for Chapel Hill? Continued
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...
Change with Equity, Reparative Justice, and Fair Development
By Linda Brown We believe that having more people live closer to where they work is environmentally essential to help combat global warming, and we believe that major employers–not developers–must create workforce housing. We want to see more people provided with a...
Get Outside! Enjoy Our Wildlife
Photos by Mary Sonis One of the best ways we've found to maintain good humor and balance during this stressful time is...
A New Park for Chapel Hill?
On Wednesday, June 1st, Chapel Hill Town Council conducted a Council work session on the future of the Legion tract, a piece of land purchased so that north-east Chapel Hill could have a Town park. The purchase of the land was an accomplishment that required much work...
What’s the problem with Aura?
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...
Are We Creating Canyons in Downtown Chapel Hill?
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 street...
First Results: January 2022 Subscriber Survey
In January 2022, we asked subscribers to the Chapel Hill Matters newsletter to answer a 5-minute, confidential feedback survey. We wanted to know - what's important to readers, and how are we doing? (Please note that newsletter subscribers ≠ CHALT members.) While only...
Why Don’t We Own Our Cities?
This talk, given by Peter Sabonis of Partners for Dignity and Rights, underscores the global nature of the housing crisis and its local impact. Given as part...
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