Chapel Hill
Final Presentation of CH2020: Joint Meeting of the Planning Board & Sustainability Committee
Event Submitted by Jeff Miles on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 9:33pm.Chapel Hill 2020 Crosses The Finish Line
Blog entry Submitted by Jeff Miles on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 10:49am.- The information meeting for the town advisory boards on Chapel Hill 2020 on May 10 at 6 p.m. in the Town Council Chamber
- A “public information meeting” on May 14 at noon in the Town Council Chamber
- A public hearing when the Town Council receives the plan as part of its regular meeting on May 21 at 7 p.m. in Town Council Chamber
Budgetopolis: Chapel Hill 2020 Meets Priority Budgeting
Blog entry Submitted by Erin Crouse on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:56pm.Chapel Hill's forthcoming comprehensive plan is supposed to accomplish many things, one of which is to guide Town staff as the transition to from an incremental budgeting system to one that is priority-driven. Since the Town is beginning to use priority budgeting this year, I have been unsure as to how this will work. Last week, as part of Chapel Hill 2020, the Town hosted a budget simulation exercise called Budgetopolis to learn more about value-based budgeting. This exercise, facilitated by staff from the UNC School of Government, was held at the NC Botanical Gardens. Because of my role as an advisory board chair, I was invited to participate.
Are the County and Towns Tracking Our Cell Phones?
Blog entry Submitted by Damon Seils on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 10:09pm.In August 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina Foundation filed public records requests with all 100 North Carolina counties and all police departments in municipalities with populations larger than 30,000. The requests were part of a nationwide effort coordinated by the ACLU to determine under what circumstances law enforcement agencies are tracking cell phones. Both the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Chapel Hill Police Department received the requests, and here's what the ACLU found.
Town Council scheduled to receive 2020 Plan on May 21
Blurt Submitted by Jeff Miles on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:55am.Chapel Hill 2020 Process Changes Directions
Blog entry Submitted by Jeff Miles on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 11:53pm.
Chapel Hill/Carrboro CROP Hunger Walk - March 25
Event Submitted by rexmercer on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 6:08pm.Future Focus Report Out Frustrates Participants
Blog entry Submitted by Jeff Miles on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:27pm.Earlier this evening town staff briefed the public on the results from the Future Focus sessions held last week. The meeting followed a pretty basic format. During the first and last 30 minutes, participants were free to roam around five different rooms, one or each of the special study areas that town previously identified. In the hour between, Mary Jane Nirdlinger, the town’s assistant planning director, gave a presentation synthesizing the results while taking questions from the audience.
Future Focus Sessions Fall Flat
Blog entry Submitted by Jeff Miles on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 2:31pm.On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the town of Chapel Hill conducted charrette-style Future Focus sessions designed to understand how town residents would like to see Chapel Hill grow from the urban design perspective. The overall event was split into three sessions, one on Wednesday evening and two identical sessions on Thursday. The first session included several presentations on town growth and an urban design exercise where participants were asked to rate 50 different images on their favorableness for fitting in downtown. The second and third sessions were map mark-ups for five study areas along key transportation corridors (i.e. MLK, 15-501 and 54).
Merritt Crossing Redux
Blog entry Submitted by Mark Chilton on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:45am.Yesterday I received a call from a woman who lives in a tent she assembled in the woods east of the railroad tracks near land that Chapel Hill purchased from the estate of Leo Merritt. I have known her for several years and she has been a part of the downtown Carrboro community for a long time. I had mixed emotions about what she had to say. She is moving next month to be with another member of her family in a nearby state. On the one hand, I am happy for her that she will (presumably) have more formal housing arrangements, but on the other hand I will miss seeing her around Carrboro.
