by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Town Planning
The “Chapel Hill Retirement Residences” will be built on Estes Drive adjacent to the Somerset and Huntington Drive neighborhood and next to Phillips Middle School. The apartments are intended for senior residents, although the company is selling out before...
by admin | Jan 21, 2018 | Town Planning
Pictured is the stream determination map of wooded tract selected for Municipal Services Center. The Town is planning to build new municipal buildings to serve as police headquarters, fire department administration, and parks and recreation offices, among other...
by admin | Dec 2, 2017 | Town Planning
Chapel Hill nearly lost the beautiful American Legion tract to a development full of high end apartments. It is a testament to Mayor Hemminger’s leadership that the Town was able to revisit the use of this property, whose use had seemed to be determined by closed...
by admin | Nov 1, 2017 | Town Planning
Another enormous, luxury apartment development is coming under the form based code; it is located along Fordham Boulevard (Highway 15-501) and the corner of Elliott Road. Who approves new projects in the Ephesus Fordham District? In 2014 the Town Council gave away...
by admin | Oct 30, 2017 | Town Planning
On Wednesday’s Council agenda the staff is bring back a floating zone. Read the agenda item here. What is a condition use zone? “Conditional zoning allows a parcel to be rezoned subject to certain conditions, mutually agreed to by the applicant and the...
by admin | Sep 16, 2017 | Town Planning
If you think that development in the Blue Hill District is not increasing the risk of flooding, think again. The tragic events in Houston are a worrisome wake up call to Chapel Hill – especially in the Blue Hill district which is already prone to flooding....
