Chapel Hill police were out in force yesterday along MLK Jr. Boulevard, raking in revenue by ticketing speeders. Though on most days cars roar by me going 50 mph at least, yesterday was a different story. As soon as drivers saw a police car, they braked immediately, making it that much more difficult for police […]
All posts for the month February, 2010
Don’t touch that dial
Posted by NancyDon on February 26, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/26/dont-touch-that-dial/
Can’t see the canopy for the trees
The town might have the oddest definition of “tree canopy” I’ve ever heard, if I understand the discussion that came out of the Town Council meeting Monday night about modifications to the tree protection ordinance. To my mind, tree canopy would be tall trees with lots of leaves forming, well, a canopy – an umbrella-like […]
Posted by NancyDon on February 25, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/25/cant-see-the-canopy-for-the-trees/
Distractive driving
The biggest roadblock to a townwide ban on motorists using cell phones while driving seems to be the issue of enforcement. The Town Council learned Monday night that any cell phone law it passed would be very difficult to enforce. It’s not just that an officer would have to see someone using a cell phone […]
Posted by NancyDon on February 24, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/24/distractive-driving/
A well-treed community
Chapel Hill’s reputation as a community of tree-huggers took a beating last night as citizens speaking against proposed changes to the tree protection ordinance far outnumbered those supporting a new law. A few Town Council members took credit for leading the charge for change after Jim Heavner took advantage of a loophole in the town […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on February 23, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/23/a-wel-treed-community/
Down the road
I guess you could call it the warning bell. On the Town Council’s Consent Agenda for tonight’s business meeting is commitment of town money toward the cost of putting sidewalks along the Weaver Dairy Road widening project. Yes, first efforts seem to have begun in the long-aborning state project, which would three-lane the 2.74-mile length […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 22, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/22/down-the-road/
The usual suspects
Some nitwit phoned in a bomb threat against the Greenbridge construction site on Thursday. Chapel Hill police responded to the report and work was suspended at the West Rosemary Street site. According to a news release from Greenbridge, the threat didn’t affect the project’s schedule – only caused a two-hour delay in starting the workday […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 19, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/19/the-usual-suspects/
A better class of deer
I hadn’t noticed the deer chowing down on what’s left of my yard in some weeks, and I wondered whether some calamity had befallen the herd. Of course, they’ve pretty much stripped my yard clean. All that’s left are a few nubs of plants, so there’s not much to beckon them to revisit. Still, even […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 18, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/18/a-better-class-of-deer/
Road work
There was a lot of concern about traffic corridors voiced Monday night at the Town Council hearing on the long-range transit plan – but not on the corridor you might have expected. The Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard/N.C. 86 corridor had received the most attention in recent years because it was to provide primary road […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 17, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/17/road-work/
Can we drive this magic bus?
One point that couldn’t be missed from last night’s Town Council public hearing on transit is that there are likely to be a whole lot more buses rumbling back and forth along Chapel Hill and Carrboro streets in our future. Planners expect that by 2035 there will be about 30 percent more people living in […]
Posted by Don Evans on February 16, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/16/can-we-drive-this-magic-bus/
Stonewall
Town manager Roger Stancil, town attorney Ralph Karpinos and town mayor Mark Kleinschmidt are giving government workers a bad name. A couple weeks ago, I sent an e-mail to the three asking what it would cost the town to walk away from the contract with RAM Development for the 140 West Franklin project. A few […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on February 15, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/15/stonewall/