Development continues to reshape communities across Orange County, bringing new housing, expanding local services and creating opportunities for residents. Recent projects include the expansion of senior retirement communities, new restaurant openings and nonprofit-led efforts to increase access to housing and strengthen neighborhoods.
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CARRBORO—-For Carrboro to achieve its affordable housing goals for the next 15 years it would need to add more than 6,000 housing units, a consultant told the town council this week.
CHAPEL HILL —On the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 22, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a conditional zoning application for 5640 Chapel Hill Road, which will allow for construction of the East Lakeview Townhomes – a development of 34 to 68 for-sale residential units on the east side of town near the Orange-Durham County line.
CARRBORO–Would allowing more accessory dwelling units (ADU), AKA “mother-in-law apartments”, in Carrboro create added affordable housing or added short-term rentals that change the nature of the town’s older neighborhoods?
CHAPEL HILL–Earlier in October, the Chapel Hill Council discussed the fiscal year 2025 affordable housing report. Town staff, including Affordable Housing and Community Connections Director Sarah Vinas and Affordable Housing Manager Emily Holt, highlighted progress towards developing 900 units of affordable housing throughout Chapel Hill, while also preserving 400 units of affordable housing over the next five years.
CARRBORO –Carrboro wants future development to have greater density and include affordable housing, and also be environmentally friendly — but it’s unlikely they can achieve all three on every future project.
CARRBORO–It’s been six years since the Carrboro Town Council approved a development permit for 40 acres on Old Fayetteville Road and some residents are wondering if Harris Teeter will ever develop it.
During the Wednesday, September 24, meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council, the municipal board spent the majority of the meeting listening to public speakers discuss three different development projects being proposed around town.
CHAPEL HILL –The Guardians of the Hill will open the doors of their brand new Police Headquarters on Monday, September 29.
CHAPEL HILL-At its September 10 meeting, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a series of changes to the solid waste collection services provided by the town.
On the evening of Wednesday, September 10, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed two zoning applications that will likely come up to a vote this fall.
On the evening of August 19, the Chapel Hill Planning Commission undertook a significant task, considering three proposed residential projects that will likely shape the city’s future and come before the City Council in the months to come.
MEBANE–If all goes smoothly, a 72,000-square-foot Buc-ee’s gas station and convenience store will open at 1425 Trollingwood Hawfields Road in Mebane in a little over a year.
A local townhome development at the intersection of East Lakeview Drive and Old Chapel Hill Road in Durham County that has come and gone before local officials multiple times over the past couple of years appears to still be on the radar for Chapel Hill.
If everything goes smoothly, by 2028 Carrboro Town Hall will be more energy efficient, more accessible to people with disabilities, and won’t need to have some staffers using the corridors for offices.
After more than a century of burials, Carrboro is renovating and expanding Westwood Cemetery before it runs out of space to hold the dead.
A local townhome development at the intersection of East Lakeview Drive and Old Chapel Hill Road in Durham County that has come and gone before local officials multiple times over the past couple of years appears to still be on the radar for Chapel Hill.
Can downtown Carrboro be a dynamic, fun, desirable place to live and do business without gentrification squeezing long-time residents out?
Being aware of everything taking place around the Chapel Hill, Pittsboro, and Orange County region, one fact stands out: the area’s significant growth.
Residents of Elliott Woods Apartments in Chapel Hill—some of whom have lived there for more than 30 years—gathered last week to voice concerns about the future of their homes.
In late June, the Town of Chapel Hill held a public information meeting for a proposed rezoning of a 1.8 acre site at 1165 Weaver Dairy Road from OI-3 (office institutional) to NC (neighborhood commercial) for a development proposed by Omaha, Nebraska-based Comprop LLC, that would be called The Lightbridge Project.
One of the primary missions of the current leadership of the Town of Chapel Hill is its collective focus on affordable housing.
On the evening of June 18, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a rezoning request from Orlando, Florida-based Zom Living to construct up to 400 units in a multi-family residential complex along White Oak Drive.
At the Wednesday, June 11 session of the Chapel Hill Town Council, the municipal board discussed the feasibility and financial implications of coal ash remediation projects at 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd..
Duke Energy and a subcontractor installed a temporary meter for the PEACH Apartments on Monday.
On Thursday, June 12, Habitat for Humanity of Orange County broke ground on its next community in Hillsborough, Auman Village.
On the evening of June 11, the Chapel Hill Council received an update and discussed the progress of the North-South Bus Rapid Transit (NSBRT) project.
Orange County’s Planning Department has issued a Final Determination Letter on Union Grove Farm’s request for various Agritourism uses.
Back in April, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved the town’s public housing program, annual plan and five-year plan.
Carrboro doesn’t need to provide more public parking downtown, city staff told the Town Council recently.
On the evening of Wednesday, May 21, the Chapel Hill Town Council considered a rezoning proposal for 380 to 400 apartment units along Old Chapel Hill Road.
The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved a conditional rezoning proposal from Taft Mills Group and Community Home Trust to construct 190 affordable housing units.