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Since Orange County passed our transit plan in 2013, Chapel Hill Transit has been able to add more service and significantly address the need to replace existing buses. GoTriangle and Orange Public Transportation have also been able to add service and vehicles, but we are focusing on CHT here.
To highlight the new service we just got this past August 2018:
- CW Route extension of it's peak evening service
- D Route extension of it's peak evening service
- All routes with existing Saturday service had that service extended from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm
Service
The table below summarizes the increased service since 2013. This represents around 10,585 new annual hours of service.*
Here are your Orange County sample ballots for the November 6, 2018 General Election
- G001 is Chapel Hill town limits except for Patterson Precinct.
- G002 is mostly Carrboro but parts of other precincts mostly south of Chapel Hill.
- G003 is Chapel Hill town limits in Patterson Precinct (about 1,500 voters).
- G004 is remainder of the county.
The complete list of ballots by precinct is available on the Orange County Board of Elections website.
Sounds like it is time for new folks to hear old stories of Hurricane Fran (1996) and get ready for Hurricane Florence (2018). (We were 3 blocks from Franklin St without electricity for 6 days with a 6 month old baby. We used a lot of our backpacking gear. The neighbors, student rental, had 4 cars crushed by trees. We escaped any damage except our landlord spent the next 6 months cutting up for fire wood the oak that fell in our back yard.) The latest headline now says "potentially catastrophic category 4!" I'll put in a plug for the NC Standard Course of Study which includes the high school course of Earth and Environmental Science which I taught (along with biology, chemistry etc.) at the soon to be remodelled Chapel Hill High School. I always warned students when they live on their own to figure out if their rental is in the flood plain. We also talked about hurricane preparedness and the dangers of crossing flooded roads and bridges. I hope the hype for this storm is wrong but....
We've compiled issues of interest coming before or at play in each of our municipalities and the county this Fall, which we’ll be following. Here goes:
Carrboro
The Carrboro Board of Alderpersons gets back to regular work with a meeting on September 4, 2018. Here’s a snapshot of what’s on their horizon:
- Public hearing on Weaver Street Market renovations
- Report on NC 54 West Corridor Study
- Update on the 203 South Greensboro project (Southern Branch Library)
- Public hearing on Lloyd Property conditional rezoning (it’s back!)
- Update on the Old 86 commercial development concept
Chapel Hill
The Chapel Hill Town Council re-convenes on September 5, 2018. Here’s what we and they have to look forward to this fall:
As we’ve covered before, there are many mobile home parks in Orange County and they are some of the most affordable types of housing we have. Many, however, are situated on land that is valuable and ripe for re-development (we are keeping an eye on the mobile home park on MLK and Taylor called the Tar Heel Mobile Court as the gas station in front of it has recently closed).
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