Consider the irony: At the same time town staff are making considerable efforts to encourage more people to get involved in the town decision-making process by applying to advisory boards and commissions, the Council Committee on Boards and Commissions has proposed limiting the number of people who will actually be considered for appointment. And, after […]
All posts for the month September, 2019
Exclusive boards
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 30, 2019
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/09/30/exclusive-boards/
Too much information?
Candidates for Town Council need a common app. You know, like prospective students applying to colleges fill out. I haven’t counted up all the questionnaires I’ve completed — someone asserted 19, but I haven’t had time to go back and check. All sorts of special interest groups want to know what candidates think about issues […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 23, 2019
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/09/23/too-much-information/
Feel-good decisions
As I interact with people when I do errands, I often ask them whether they live in Chapel Hill and why. I ask those who live in town what they would like Town Council to know. Usually, I hear the Big Three Issues: affordability, flooding and traffic. Not long ago, I heard a new one: […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 16, 2019
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/09/16/feel-good-decisions/
Right on red
One theory has it that if we just make traffic bad enough, people will take the bus. Perhaps that was the rationale behind an item on the Town Council consent agenda coming up this week that would have prohibited turning right at red lights in 16 high-traffic intersections. A former council member proposed the right-turn-on-red […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 9, 2019
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/09/09/right-turn-on-red/
Traffic
Last week I arrived at a meeting after it had started because I had seriously underestimated how long it would take me to drive there. Now that students and professors are back and families have returned from vacations in time for the start of school, some 20,000 to 40,000 additional cars are on the street […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on September 2, 2019
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2019/09/02/traffic/