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"Personally I'm really tired of municipal problems being solved by
putting them in rural areas," he said. "I would encourage Mayor Chilton
to come back with a site in Carrboro." ~ BOCC Member Barry Jacobs, quoted in the News & Observer February 23, 2012
Now I admit to coming late to the party although I have been paying attention to this issue for several years (yeah, years if you can believe it). But it seems to me that Mr. Jacobs, for whom I have great respect for his years of service, missed a crucial point that could alter his perception on this issue.
Last night, the Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to set June 30, 2013, as the closing date of the county’s municipal waste landfill, and to pursue a costly interlocal agreement to ship our trash to Durham’s waste transfer station.
Subject to expected State approval, the Orange County Board of Elections has published the locations and dates/hours for early voting for the May 8 primary.
Recently the Orange County Democratic Party signed a lease
for office space located at 209 Lloyd Street (Suite 310 – back of the building)
in Carrboro. The office is very amenable to what the Party’s work will be in
2012 and hopefully beyond into the future.
Currently, we’re allowing the Coalition to Protect N.C.
Families, OCDP is a coalition partner, to use our office space for the purposes
of turning out the vote against Amendment 1. This is just part of the strategy we've adopted in promoting Democratic values in Orange County and statewide, especially since Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough all offer same-sex partner benefits that will be unconstitutional under this amendment.
This year will be a tough one, but will be one where we will
fight night and day until November 8th to play our part in taking
back the General Assembly and defeating Pat McCrory. We also will be pushing
forward in promoting our candidates in Orange County in the general election.
On Wednesday
and Thursday of this week, the town of Chapel Hill conducted charrette-style Future
Focus sessions designed to understand how town residents would like to see
Chapel Hill grow from the urban design perspective. The overall event was split into three sessions, one on Wednesday evening and two identical sessions on Thursday. The first session included several presentations on town growth and an urban design exercise where participants were asked to rate 50 different images on their favorableness for fitting in downtown. The second and third sessions were map mark-ups for five study areas along key transportation corridors (i.e. MLK, 15-501 and 54).
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