Chapel Hill has the potential to be someplace really special, if we could only articulate it. The town’s former planning director, Roger Waldon, who now makes his living guiding developers through the town’s rezoning and special use permit approval process, discovered that the articulation part is harder than it looks. In an editorial published last […]
All posts for the month July, 2014
Waldon’s world
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 28, 2014
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/28/waldons-world/
Real estate sales
Home sales in Chapel Hill and Carrboro during the first 2 weeks in July: Marcus L. Brown bought 124 Mallard Court from J. Patrick Hall and Laura Bennett for $190,000. Dennis Paul Pechinski bought 6413 Alexander Drive from Carl Wayne Marks for $93,500. Claus J. and Jeanne O. Jepsen bought 102 Forest Ridge Drive from […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 25, 2014
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/25/real-estate-sales/
Road noise
You don’t see this every day: Roger Perry ceding to “a small group of people who make noise about everything.” What his phrasing lacked in graciousness, his gesture made up for in integrity. Perry said he’d pay for the street that connects his proposed apartment complex to Elliott Road, a road that from the onset […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 21, 2014
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/21/road-noise/
Weekly’s end
On June 30, The Weekly announced that its June 26 issue had been its last. The news came totally by surprise — Shannon Publishing shows no sign of struggling financially, and readership was high. Still, the break-up had that sort of it’s-not-you-it’s-me feel to it, and I’m mourning the loss. There were times when writing […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 14, 2014
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/14/weeklys-end/
Money talks
Council sank to a new low Wednesday night in its decision to sell 523 E. Franklin St. to the UNC College of Arts & Sciences Foundation, not because of who council sold it to but why. The foundation’s bid was the lowest and the only one of the three bids that would keep the property […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 7, 2014
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/07/money-talks/