Today I am very happy to announce that we have a new member joining
the OrangePolitics Posse (a.k.a. editorial board)! Travis Crayton has
been a regular poster & commenter here on OP for almost 2 years. Travis first became interested in local issues when he served as
treasurer and an active volunteer for Lee Storrow's 2011 campaign. Since
then, he's become particularly interested in transit, economic
development, town-university relations, and all things downtown. He
graduates this Sunday from UNC with a degree in political science and public policy.
I think he's going to make an excellent addition the the posse, and he's jumping in by helping to live tweet the Chapel Hill Town Council Worksession tonight on @OrangePolitics!
Please join us at our next editorial meeting on June 2nd to welcome him in person.
Rosemary Street in downtown Chapel Hill has a lot of untapped potential and is already a vibrant intersection for students and permanent residents (including long-time residents of the historically African American Northside neighborhood). The Town of Chapel Hill Economic Development Office and the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership have teamed up to create a new process they are calling 'Rosemary Imagined,' which they are promoting as "an innovative community-led process to
refine our thinking of how Rosemary Street fits into the development and
growth of Downtown Chapel Hill."
On
Tuesday evening, the Board of County Commissioners will hold a public
hearing on recycling. There has been a change in the way the law is
being interpreted which makes the current fee system questionable.
Currently the county is divided into 3 sections. Some of the rural
community pays for 2 of the 3R fees (availability and convenience
centers) and the portion of the rural community that gets curbside
collection on recycling pays for those same 2 + an additional fee of $38
for collections. A new funding source is needed for the curbside
collections portion of the fee (a service that effects about 13,000
residents).
The
county is considering 3 options to get around this legal issue. 1) go
to a solid waste authority (like OWASA) that would be a separate
operational and financial unit, 2) create 3 solid waste tax districts,
or 3) eliminate curbside collection for neighborhoods outside of a city
limit.
As an alumn, I am pretty excited to have a woman chancellor at UNC. I also like that she's an environmental scientist. I'm always wary of folks without strong roots in the community, but Dr. Folt has a lot of potential.
What do y'all think?
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