Who we want to be

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Posted by Nancy Oates on April 13, 2015

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  1. Deborah Fulghieri

     /  April 13, 2015

    For Ephesus-Fordham, I think it’s concerning that the town of Chapel Hill is failing to have the Light-Rail Transit project serve the town. Rather than have fixed transit run along 15-501, with its many apartment complexes and commercial districts (and hundreds more apartments going up right now), the line extends an extra 2 miles through Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) land serving as reserves for Jordan Lake (at $100 million per mile~ estimated), when the ACE has forbidden construction on its lands.

    What is apparent is that there is no plan, and town leadership is not lobbying to have any fixed-rail (or other) transit in the areas they are planning to redevelop to be far more dense. That means unrelieved traffic. And then? Still no plan.

    By the way, I noticed that the Planning Department, which had changed its name to Development Services, has been renamed Planning and Sustainability. I liked the candor of “Development Services” even though builders have difficulty accessing those services.