Howard and Lillian Lee Honored at Transit Center Naming Ceremony
On Monday, June 20, the Town of Chapel Hill named the transit facility on Millhouse Road in honor of Howard and Lillian Lee.
Read MoreOn Monday, June 20, the Town of Chapel Hill named the transit facility on Millhouse Road in honor of Howard and Lillian Lee.
Read MoreInitial consideration of money and who gets it made up the majority of discussion at the Chapel Hill Town Council’s work session Wednesday.
Chapel Hill’s elected officials Wednesday evening discussed parts of town less often in the limelight including the contributions of local African American leaders and the plight of local mobile home park residents.
Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a memorandum of understanding regarding the development of a land parcel that houses a police headquarters and contains coal ash.
Chapel Hill’s Booker Creek Working Group met Monday, March 13 to discuss “tentative recommendations” for ongoing water management issues.
Issues around housing and development in Chapel Hill were the focal points of the March 9 Town Council meeting.
The Chapel Hill Town Council heard more information regarding the next steps for redeveloping a coal ash site during a single-issue work session Wednesday evening.
In a session addressing some leftover business from 2021, the Chapel Hill Town Council Wednesday evening talked about money and the type of housing downtown does not need.
The emotional core of Wednesday evening’s Town Council session saw elected officials dissect issues regarding multiple pedestrian and bicyclist safety incidents.
The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed potential improvements to Franklin Street and reviewed community feedback regarding incoming federal funds during a work session Wednesday evening.
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority voted Thursday to allow staff to engage in discussions with neighboring jurisdictions on a long-range water infrastructure agreement.
At the Jan. 26 Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, the development team of Belmont Sayre presented options for redeveloping the coal ash dump where the police station sits.
Council members met Wednesday evening to give feedback on a proposed housing project to be built on undeveloped land in southern Chapel Hill, across 15-501 from Southern Village.
In its first working session of 2022, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed projected housing needs and excess funds from the 2021 fiscal year.
The board of directors for the Orange Water and Sewer Authority took aim at a long-range planning project Wednesday evening that has been decades in the making.
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted Wednesday evening to approve a building some elected officials are calling one of the most important development projects in decades.
In one of its last meetings of 2021, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved several measures Wednesday evening.
The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed two options for increasing affordable housing in its session Wednesday, along with approving a conditional zoning application for a mixed-use development along Erwin Road.
Building height and doing construction projects right were two main topics of discussion for the Chapel Hill Town Council at its Wednesday Oct. 27 meeting.
While there were officially three items of discussion on the docket for Wednesday’s Town Council meeting, the only real issue at hand was water….
Between a police station and plenty of coal ash is the predicament the Chapel Hill Town Council found themselves in on Wednesday evening. An updated report found that an over 50-year-old coal ash dump poses no threat to public health in its current state.
Two of Chapel Hill’s community advisory boards met this week to discuss major redevelopment projects currently making their way through the Town’s review process….
With topics ranging from policing, the Town’s purse and road safety, Wednesday’s town council work session offered Chapel Hill’s elected officials updates from task forces and options for how to spend federal funding….
Wednesday evening’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting featured more discussion than action as council members heard updates regarding local initiatives to adapt to climate change…
The most important issue facing local government administrations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County during the past year and in the months ahead is certainly the Covid-19 pandemic…
Mayor Lydia Lavelle will host the eighth annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’ essay, “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro.” The community reading will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 4….
Within a week of one another, two local elected officials announced their departure from office. Lydia Lavelle, Carrboro’s mayor since 2013, said on May 26 she would not seek re-election….
Chapel Hill residents are voicing concern over the late-night meeting times of recent public hearings, some of which have lasted until midnight and beyond.
Opinion: On March 10, Chapel Hill Town Council Member Hongbin Gu petitioned the council to consider a zoning change that would restrict the use of certain land, including the mobile home park on 1200 MLK Jr. Blvd…
Chapel Hill Town Council approved the rezoning application for 1200 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. at its March 10 meeting by a 5-3 vote. The vote tally held the same as at council’s Feb. 24 meeting.
At the March 5 meeting of the Council Committee on Economic Sustainability, town staff presented Town Council with a proposal for a pilot program to regulate short-term rentals conducted through sites like Airbnb and VRBO in Chapel Hill.
Stackhouse Properties told the town of Chapel Hill that if they do not get zoning approval to erect a four-story self-storage facility on the property they own at 1200 and 1204 MLK Jr. Blvd., they will sell the property and have already received an offer from a buyer who likely will evict the 70+ families who live in the Tar Heel Mobile Home Park (MBH) that currently occupies the site.