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Comment on Chapel Hill 2020 Participants: Take this Survey! by Calvin

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Comment on Community Forum for Chapel Hill Bike Plan set for May 9 by Sarah McIntee

Sarah McIntee — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:38:38 +0000

As a new member of the Bike and Ped Advisory Board I am very happy to see biking interests in Chapel Hill. I think it is great to have a bike plan to identify the roads which have the most bike potential. However, the reality is, until we can make the roads safe for women and children to ride bikes to school, this is not a “bike-able” community. The only folks riding bicycles here, on the roads, are high risk-taking experienced (mostly male) adults who don’t mind contending with drivers who drive at speeds exceeding 25 mph. Having the speed posted at 35 mph on the main roads in town, making drivers feel entitled to drive up to 40 mph, makes bike riding in Chapel Hill very unsafe. It only takes a car going 30 mph to kill someone. The “safest speed” for any road is when the difference in speed between the slower vehicles and faster vehicles is minimized, where the difference in speed is not greater than 10 mph. Any road where the common, effective, speed is over 25 mph can’t be legitimately marked as “bike-able.” I am concerned about liability issues here: if someone is hurt or killed on a marked “bike-able road” is the town, or state, liable for damages? Please petition the state and town for all in-town surface road speeds to not be posted higher than 20 mph (which drivers commonly interpret as 25 mph). Until then, we had better put a disclaimer on every bike map and plan a “Sharing the road with cars, any where the speed is posted over 20 mph, and where the motor vehicles travel 25 mph, or more, is not safe for bike riding. Most Chapel Hill roads are posted over that. Bike in Chapel Hill at your own risk.”

Comment on Applications accepted for the Central West Focus Area Steering Committee by pgsha.ru

pgsha.ru — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:26:49 +0000

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Comment on DESIGN 2020 Presents LaUNCH Chapel Hill by Julie McClintock

Julie McClintock — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:30:50 +0000

Was this event rescheduled?

Comment on The Buzz by Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:46:54 +0000

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Comment on Special Topics: Health Care and Planning for Sustainability by Ahir Vora

Ahir Vora — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:58:59 +0000

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Comment on The Buzz by Wendy Smith

Wendy Smith — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:26:34 +0000

The February 18 Council Agenda calls to
Continue Public Hearing: Land Use Management Ordinance Text Amendment – Resource Conservation District Stream Buffer Regulations. (R-1). There will be a motion to adopt a resolution to recess the Public Hearing to May 20, 2013.

Comment on Public Information Meeting about Stream Buffers by Stream Buffer Discussion | Friends of Bolin Creek

Stream Buffer Discussion | Friends of Bolin Creek — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:40:18 +0000

[...] Town of Chapel Hill will hold a public information meeting and discussion about stream buffers from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Council Chamber of [...]

Comment on Public Information Meeting about Stream Buffers by Sarah McIntee

Sarah McIntee — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:47:32 +0000

That reminds me that I need to contact public works? NC DOT? about Bolin Creek is starting to undermine Estes Drive in the segment between Camelot Condos (built in 1967 on a floodplain) and the CH Community center. It is right where the sidewalk makes a kink to avoid the meander’s steep bank. It will only take one more big storm to have Estes Drive collapsing from being undermined. This segment of Estes Drive needs to be a bridge. Actually, considering a future of larger rainstorms as made by climate change, there should be planning for much of the lower part of Estes Drive to be a bridge over a renaturalized wetland. In this area, a wetland would serve as a sponge and would allow breathing room for Bolin creek’s natural meanders. Meandering also helps keep Bolin creek from cutting too deep into the ground. No doubt, when Univeristy Mall was built, there was much fill put in for the massive parking lot that game goers now enjoy for park and ride. It is a good idea to give creeks room as the meanders shift. It is a real problem when it comes to undoing landscape mistakes, like building in a flood plain. Ultimately, unless much of that parking lot becomes more permeable, it, too, will eventually be undermined by water activity. Camelot condos will be doomed to sufffer more flooding unless there are rebuilt up high with parking underneath, like beach houses. If we are smart, we will require all future upland parking areas to be permeable block, or paving strips with intermittent grass seams to allow water to penetrate.

Comment on The Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan by Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:34:04 +0000

Sustainability defined…..
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