August 2012
Nathan Huening of Sprocket House will lead this first Jane's Walk in Chapel Hill, focusing on 'Paving Our Pathways.' During this walk, we will tour the places in the Chapel Hill Downtown area where individuals are developing projects and businesses to reshape the downtown area, focusing on sites accessed through pedestrian pathways to explain the need for shorter block lengths to allow non-linear expansion of the Chapel Hill downtown area.
Date:
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
I
will lead this 2nd Jane’s Walk focused on ‘Inspiring Innovative
Spaces.’ During the walk we will tour the arts-related spaces in the downtown
area, drawing attention to the arts as a business driver in the Chapel Hill
Downtown Area to explain the importance of public space for the transmittance
of ideas and creativity.
Date:
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
This third Jane's Walk, Culinary Cultural
Richness, will be led by Jared Cates of the Carolina Farm Stewardship
Association. During
the walk, we will tour ethnic food restaurants and discuss the vibrant
residential communities surrounding the Chapel Hill Downtown Area to
demonstrate the benefits of a high density built environment as a place in
which people from different backgrounds frequently interact.
Date:
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
The
last Jane’s Walk, One-Stop Living, will be led by Crystal Fisher of the Community
Home Trust. During the walk, we will tour the array of businesses, residences,
shops and restaurants in the Chapel Hill Downtown Area, focusing on the
benefits of living, working and playing, all in the downtown area – a
possibility made real in mixed-use developments.
Date:
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
Nearly 80 participants leave for Bloomington a week from this Sunday. The discussions to be held during the visit should spark some interesting dialogue both during the event and once back in Orange County. The visit is split up into a series of Conversations with topics including: Community Branding, Economic Development, A Thriving Downtown, Student Housing, University-Community Partnerships,Innovations in Government, Community Colleges: Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development, and K-12 Education. There will also be time for one-on-one conversations with our counterparts. On the second day there will be field trips to a trail, theater, high school, museum, or art center (I hope to go visit the Bloomington Community Orchard).
The Twitter hashtag for the visit is #ICV2012. I plan to tweet during the visit (@mollsdemarco), and I imagine a number of others will as well.
I'm surprised no one has yet posted comments about the following article by Mark Schultz that appeared in Chapel Hill News. Chapel Hill Town Council has taken many principled positions on contentious national issues such as gay rights or gun control, to name two. Why not Palestine? Where does this community stand on the issue of free speech? Why is it OK to take positions on some issues, but not others? In this case the town itself is not actually taking a position, but allowing a local church to pay for ads that say the following: “Join with us. Build peace with justice and equality. End U.S. military aid to Israel.” It's a simple message quite in keeping with many of the values Chapel Hillians hold dear. Should the town censor this particular kind of speech on town buses?
Town leaders will discuss their policy for bus advertising after an ad calling for an end of U.S. military aid to Israel drew complaints.
By Geoff Green and Ruby Sinreich
With the the new Northside Elementary School, a.k.a. elementary #11, set to open next summer (as well as Frank Porter Graham Elementary School's transition to a dual-language magnet school), we'll be forced to go through another dreaded reassignment process to balance enrollment and capacity at our oft-crowded elementary schools. Superintendent Tom Forcella issued a memo on August 2 (PDF) about how this could go.
Forcella says he expects to reassign over 1,000 elementary school students. A redistricting team of 8 staff members has already been created. They are charged with creating three plans to be reviewed by a Redistricting Advisory Council, made up of staff and parent representatives from all the elementary schools and from Carrboro High School, which will recommend one to the School Board.
http://orangepolitics.org/tags/inter-city-visit
https://twitter.com/search/realtime/%23ICV2012
http://bloomington2012.com/
Date:
Sunday, September 9, 2012 - 8:00am to Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 8:00pm
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