Looks like Hillsborough will be getting a Weaver Street Market, but not a light industrial area. This seems like a step in the right direction.
Plans for a Gateway Center with a branch of the market can move forward after Judge Howard Manning approved a settlement between the town and the center's developer Tuesday.
Mayor Tom Stevens said he thought some of the settlement's conditions addressed concerns raised by Board of Adjustment members who had voted against the plan for a market.
- heraldsun.com: Weaver Street Market coming to Hillsborough
And:
A plan to bring light industry to the north side of town suffered a setback Tuesday night.
The town's Planning Board unanimously recommended that the Town Board deny a request to rezone 38.58 acres off N.C. 57 for a light industrial use.
- heraldsun.com: Panel's advice: Deny light industrial rezone
Anyone from north of I-40 care to share their thoughts?
The Sierra Club is kicking off this spring's County Commissioner
forum season on Wednesday night from 7-8:30 at Carrboro Town Hall. You
can also tune in and watch it on channel 18. We'll try to get it
reshown throughout the campaign on the People's Channel as well.
Each candidate will have a two minute introduction and conclusion
and there will be about 20 minutes for audience questions (in addition
to 40 minutes of prewritten questions submitted by Executive and
Political Committee members.) If you'd like to submit one you can do it
right here and I'll put it in the stack (they should be strictly
focused on environmental issues.)
The forum along with candidate interviews and their prior record on
environmental issues will be used to evaluate the candidates for the
Sierra Club endorsement, which will be announced in early April.
Hope to see a lot of you out there on Wednesday night!
Sometime around noon an SUV drove into the Pit on the campus of UNC. It's being reported by WRAL that one five students were hit and taken away on a stretcher. Many people on campus were alerted to this event by the sound of helicopters flying overhead. Some live video is being shown of the area on WRAL's Sky 5 video.
In today's N&O, Matt Dees reports the breaking news that developers think Chapel Hill is too tough on them. I think that having higher standards is what makes Chapel Hill such a nice place, which is what makes people want to build here and make money on our prosperous community.
For example, how do you think Roger Perry's East-West Partners is doing on Meadowmont, The Cedars, Downing Creek, Cobble Ridge, and Westwood Terrace? In fact, look how they brag about the sidewalks in Medowmont in their web site. The "neotraditional" or "new urbanist" style of that development was first suggested by a small area plan for the NC 54 entranceway in which the Town established the goals for the site.
Roger Perry says the mere words "Chapel Hill" are enough to turn off most developers.
Guest post by Steve Sherman
This week UNC and Internationalist Books play host to Bill Talen and Savitri Durkee, better known as Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. Bill and Savitri hail from NYC, where their pentacostal anti-capitalism started with preaching against sweatshops in the Times Square Disney Store.
Since then, the Reverend has performed enough Starbucks exorcisms to get himself permanently banned, held services inside Wal-marts, and spread the gospel of community, justice and anti-capitalism through revivals across the country. He's been profiled in the New York Times Magazine (and the London Observer Magazine) and has a book, "What Should I Do if Reverend Billy Is in My Store?" just released by the New Press.
The Reverend will be giving talks about his work Tuesday at Ibooks and Wednesday on campus, and will lead a revival service Thursday night. For more information, visit www.revbilly.com
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