Last week, the mayors of Chapel Hill and Carrboro held a press conference to wring their hands over the affordable housing crisis wrought by owner/investors of workforce apartment complexes no longer accepting Section 8 vouchers because those owner/investors realized they could install granite countertops and double the rent. While the mayors were pleading with those […]
Granite countertop city
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 11, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/08/11/granite-countertop-city/
Real estate sales 7/28/14-08/01/14
Edward B. and Loren G. Pease bought 606 Aberdeen Drive from Kenji C. and Amanda B. Brantley for $692,500. Matthew Miele and Nina Bellucci Butler bought 101 Garden Gate Drive from Christopher and Holly Rio for $503,000. Danai B. Adkisson and Kelsie A. Edwards bought 124 Friar Lane, Carrboro, from Ronnie L. and Maria Clara […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 8, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/08/08/real-estate-sales-72814-080114/
Real estate sales, 7/14/14-7/25/14
Elke Bachmann bought 106 Baywood Place from Jennifer Elizabeth Spratt for $210,000. Kevin and Jennifer Krueger bought 18 Balsam Court from Thomas H. and Carol H. Kawula for $400,000. Susan A. McGovern bought 112 Wolf’s Trail from Bertram Joseph and Melina M. Furey for $520,000. William Gustavo and Natalie Gott Vizuete bought 202 Oak Glen […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 8, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/08/08/real-estate-sales-71414-72514/
Escape hatch
When Jim Ward asked Roger Stancil why renovations to Town Hall toted up to $1.2 million dollars — recall this was work that began as repairing water damage after council chambers and the ground floor of Town Hall flooded last year during a torrential downpour — Stancil said it was to remake the ground floor […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 4, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/08/04/escape-hatch/
Waldon’s world
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 […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 28, 2014
https://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
https://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
https://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
https://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
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/07/07/money-talks/
A peek behind the curtain
You’d think with all the 5-hour-plus meetings Town Council has racked up lately, and the abstruse decisions that have come out of them, somewhere in there council members would have explained why they voted the way they did. Instead, we’ve watched council members pass over professionals with strong expertise for advisory board positions in favor […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 30, 2014
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2014/06/30/a-peek-behind-the-curtain/