June 2012
Date:
Sunday, June 17, 2012 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Tonight, the Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from the developers of what once was the Colony Apartments and will now be called The Park at Chapel Hill (a mixed use development). Colony Apartments was one of the only locations of affordable rentals in Chapel Hill, but with this redevelopment that is no longer likely to be the case. With the redevelopment of Glen Lennox in Chapel Hill and the recent purchase of the majority of the units at Abbey Court (now to be called Collins Crossing), affordable rentals may become extinct in Southern Orange County.
This is an issue that Orange County Justice United has been focused on and Tish Galu, Strategy Team Chair for Justice United, made the following statement at the council meeting:
The United Church of Chapel Hill, in partnership with Fisher Memorial Church in Durham and the Racial Equity Institute in Greensboro, is holding a 2-day Anti-Racism Workshop on July 6th and 7th at the United Church of Chapel Hill (1321 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC) from 8:30 am to 5:15 pm each day.
More information can be found on the new website: Organizing Against Racism under 'Upcoming'.
This website provides more information about the workshops and our People of Color and White Anti-Racism Caucuses.
Date:
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 8:30am to Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 5:15pm
Location:
United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC
Date:
Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Bread & Butter, 503 W. Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, N.C.
From UNC Press Release:
Staff members at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill will update local residents, faculty,
staff and students on activities at Carolina North at a public
information meeting June 27.
The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Magnolia
Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive.
Free parking is available, and Chapel Hill Transit serves the building
via the NU route.
Carolina North is being developed as a mixed-use academic campus on
University-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two
miles north of the main campus. Most of the planned construction for
Carolina North will take place on or near the site of the Horace
Williams Airport.
Topics for the June 27 meeting will include updates on the
construction of a utilities ductbank, installation of a landfill gas
pipeline and generator, and
designs of a greenway, the Collaborative Science Building and related
infrastructure.
UNC staff will also discuss an upcoming remediation study, to be
done with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, of
the former municipal landfill on the site. The study, the landfill
remediation and a change in the route for the greenway will require
additional minor tree cutting on the site, which will also be discussed.
Another topic will be the approved modified conservation areas, the
survey and marking of their boundaries and the search for a third-party
monitor to ensure adherence to the conservation areas' restrictive
covenants.
Staff members will also review the recently completed periodic
assessment of the Carolina North Development Agreement, the July 2009
contract between the University and the Town of Chapel
Hill that covers the first 20 years of development of Carolina North.
Town and University staff prepared this first assessment, and it is
available at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Website: http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/
News Services contact: Susan Hudson, (919) 962-8415, susan_hudson@unc.edu
Date:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building,103 Airport Drive
Do you want to seel real change in the word and in the way we live on this planet? Are you tired of hearing about species going extinct everyday, methane plumes in the Antarctic, dead zones in the ocean? Would you like to meet more people like yourself, and create a reinvigorated movement. If so, then you're in luck, because there are two events coming up this week in Chapel Hill for you!
Thursday June 21st, free screening of the documentary film Just Do It! A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws 7 p.m. 405 W. Franklin St.@ Internationalist Books
Saturday June 23rd, a presentation by the Deep Green Resistance Roadshow from Wisconsin 7 p.m. @ Internationalist Books 405 W. Franklin St.
Descriptions below:
Because of the injunction awarded to George King, owner of George's Towing, on the cell phone ban and towing ordinance, tow truck companies are now free to charge whatever they want to tow cars in town. My son was towed from the Panera lot yesterday. He was wrong to park there but George's towing charged him $150 to get his car back!!! The Chapel Hill police said we were lucky to only be charged $150 as some companies are now charging $200!! Is there anything that can be done to bring back the town's regulation of charges?
The Independent Weekly has a new reporter on the Orange County beat, Billy Ball. He has some enormous shoes to fill since Chapel Hill native Joe Schwartz left the paper and the country. Ball is doing pretty well so far and asking good questions. I can't help but notice a few gaps in his knowledge of local issues, but that can be rectified with time.
In this week's article "City or Town?" Ball takes a look at Chapel Hill 2020 in advance of the draft comprehensive plan coming before the Town Council for inevitable approval on Monday. Although he doesn't ask the questions I'm most interested in now, such as how will the Town answer the many outstanding questions and gaps in the plan, I do appreciate him pointing out that "Some of its harshest criticism has come from within the committees that molded Chapel Hill 2020."
I'm excited to announce that OrangePolitics is a partner in the effort by the Raleigh Public Record to create an accessible statewide database of campaign finance information. Please read more about it and comment on the Knight News Challenge site.
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