At Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Club forum for Chapel Hill mayoral and town council hopefuls, candidates discussed issues ranging from economic development to the quarter-cent sales tax. Candidates also talked about the intersection between the environment and the local economy — a question that met with mixed responses.
Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council come from many walks of life. The council includes a dentist, a caterer, and a businessman, among others.
At a Tuesday night meeting, the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved steps to enhance public safety laws pertaining to the use of hunting dogs during deer season. The approval authorized the distribution of informational brochures and public awareness flyers throughout northern Orange County — the designated deer-hunting area for the county. The decision also authorizes the N.C.
At a meeting Monday night, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed rezoning recommendations developed by the Glen Lennox Area Neighborhood Conservation District Committee. The proposal would create Neighborhood Conservation Districts for the single-family sections of the Glen Lennox neighborhood.
Economic development was on everyone’s mind Thursday night when the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Mebane City Council met in Hillsborough. Commissioners and council members celebrated the expansion of AKG of America, Inc., into Orange County and within Mebane city limits. The company, which manufactures brazed aluminum heat exchangers, created 40 new jobs and has expanded the area’s tax base, officials said.
Bernadette Pelissier, Board of Orange County Commissioners Chair, explains in a column why she thinks voters should support the quarter-cent sales tax Nov. 8.
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen discussed the revision of an anti-lingering ordinance Tuesday night that bans people from loitering at the corner of Jones Ferry Road and Davie Road.
Northside residents took time off from planning for the future to try to improve the present at Tuesday’s Good Neighborhood Initiative Block Party, an effort to build the relationship between student and non-student residents in Northside.
Taking steps to distance itself from the N.C. General Assembly, the Chapel Hill Town Council passed a resolution in opposition of the Defense of Marriage bill at its first meeting of the Fall term Monday Night.
At the Thursday night Orange County Board of Commissioner’s meeting, the board discussed the benefits a proposed quarter-cent sales tax could offer. Orange County’s planning and economic development staff presented an overview of the types of infrastructure and development that could happen with the help of increased revenue the proposed tax could provide.
The quarter-cent sales tax will reappear on Orange County’s Nov. 8 ballot after failing to pass last year. The tax would affect some retail goods and could bring in an estimated revenue of $2.3 million that would be split evenly between education funding and economic development. Read the responses to the proposed tax from our man-on-the-street interviews.
New state rules that will increase regulation of local stormwater programs and perhaps force Carrboro to pay for missing water quality standards formed the focus of Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.
The Town of Carrboro adopted an amendment allowing agricultural support enterprises in its rural buffer at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.
The Carrboro Board of Alderman met on Tuesday evening, and discussed the following issues:...
