"Chapel Hill 2020 meeting sees turnout of 200 to discuss drafting plan" - The Daily Tar Heel

I worry that only activists or people with a lot of extra time on their hands will make important decisions on this. How to get more people involved in ways that don't require as much touchy-feely time? The fact that some of us don't especially like that sort of approach, how does technology allow us to offer our views? It sounds like a lot of decisions are getting made by a few unelected people who just showed up.

"Portland, Me., Casts Off a Sculpture Spurned by Many" - NYTimes.com

Anything for Chapelboroham to learn here?

"Going Round In Circles Over Traffic Fix" - NPR

We ought to have them everywhere.

New York Writes Itself

Why not something like this for Chapelboroham?

"Chapel Hill’s 'The Edge' development could bring national retailers"- The Daily Tar Heel

Where are the opportunities for local businesses? Is anybody interested as business person or customer? And what about how this design fits for walkers and bikers and people taking a bus? Where is that plan? Who are the people really behind this? Even this provides none of those answers.

"Taking the car out of Carrboro and Chapel Hill" - The Daily Tar Heel

The problem is so much more fundamental than this. The community simply was not designed and had not grown up to be the right scale and organization for people walking or biking; it is, like most, a community designed for cars. Unless we address that flaw, we'll never solve a lot of problems.

"Lund, a Swedish College Town With Some Viking Mayhem in Its Past" - NYTimes.com

Imagine life here with so few cars! It's nice to imagine, but so very frustrating to come back to reality.