It is a story we have all heard before: sophomores come back to school, fatigued from a break filled with family drama, only to face a cramped dorm room.
Chapel Hill’s Planning Department will be putting together a new staff advisory board to brainstorm ideas for a revamped affordable housing strategy. Council members endorsed the idea at a Monday evening work session at the Chapel Hill Library.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro residents are stepping up to help their neighbors in need this holiday season. People Offering Relief for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Homes (PORCH) is a local charity organization that collects food donations from neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
The Board of Orange County Commissioners moved for an updated timetable for reviewing an ordinance that aims to compact six county land-use documents into a single cohesive one at Monday night’s meeting. Board Chairwoman Valerie Foushee said she believes that the time line for the Unified Development Ordinance originally outlined should be amended to give both commissioners and the Orange County Planning Board more time to review the ordinance. “We want to get this time line figured out by the end of the fiscal year,” Foushee said.
A resolution regarding opposition to war funding is back on the Orange County Board of Commissioners’ agenda tonight after being tabled in October. Chapel Hill resident Mark Marcoplos first proposed the resolution, entitled “Resolution To End the Expenditure of the Public’s Tax Dollars by the U.S. Congress for Excessive and Unaffordable Warfare Funding,” to commissioners at a Sept. 21 meeting through a public petition.
After losing its original venue, the Chapel Hill Fire Department has found a new site to host its fire safety programs. Located at 301 Meadowmont Village Circle, The Fire Place provides fire safety courses to residents with a special focus on educating children. “It’s important that we allow citizens to participate in safety programs,” Assistant Fire Marshal Doug Kelly said. “You don’t have to be a child to go out and participate.”
The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed future uses of the building that formerly housed the Chapel Hill Museum at its Monday night meeting.
Local officials honored restaurants that have helped feed the needy for a decade or more at an afternoon ceremony. Restaurants Sharing Ten Percent (RSVVP) committee members and Inter-Faith Council for Social Service officials kicked off this year’s campaign Monday as they recognized long-time participants at the Community House Shelter at 100 W. Rosemary St.
Carolina North’s flagship is likely never going to be built. Jack Evans, the executive director of Carolina North, said Wednesday that the University didn’t reach an agreement with the developers of the Innovation Center.
Triangle Transit, together with Orange, Wake and Durham counties, has identified three potential light-rail corridors within the region — the most promising connecting Durham to UNC Hospitals and the UNC campus.
