Immobilier: l'Etat veut la densification urbaine, les Français non

How does this compare?

Habitat participatif : la copropriété solidaire en replay - 27 janvier 2014

Shouldn't this be on the table for Obey Creek?

Habitats Solidaires : UNISSON-Montreuil : Projet d’Habitat Participatif Mixte

Apparently there are hundreds of these all over France today. In North Carolina? Obey Creek  model?

Town Council Wary Of East Franklin Hotel Plan - Chapelboro.com

Hmm. Our amateur city planners at "work" again.

Le géant de la distribution Wal-Mart va supprimer 2.300 emplois

Impact on Obey Creek thinking?

Duel at the Old Fulton Fish Market - NYTimes.com

Lessons to be learned for Obey Creek.

Solar independent building in Paris

A new building has just opened in Paris in the 15th arrondisement that is self-sufficient in producing all of its electrical energy. I cannot find a story yet, but it was mentioned on Telematin this morning on France2.
Why not in Obey Creek?

The Daily Tar Heel :: Amazon.com to begin collecting sales tax

How will this affect Obey Creek viability?

Homes a Short Walk From Princeton Prove a Tough Sell - NYTimes.com

What do we learn from this?

Le Figaro - Actualités

A graphic in today's Le Figaro shows the Champs Elysee as a
park without any cars. Perhaps the drawing will show up as a graphic later.

Imagine, however, that 15-501 were to be turned into a park?
Radical idea with such a wonderful result for so many of us. Imagine a snow day
to have a sense of what it would be like. 

The Daily Tar Heel :: Town Council extends Obey Creek planning

The people who serve on the Chapel Hill Town Council simply are not qualified for the job, and if they for some reason are, they don't act it.

My comments to the Town Council

"I suspect that this message concerning the Obey Creek agenda item tonight probably will travel the greatest distance to reach you as I am sending it from France. Sometimes it is easier to see things back in Chapel Hill more clearly from a distance.

So it is with Obey Creek.

What Roger PERRY and the Obey Creek property owners want to build on the land may be its highest and best use in every sense of that term. I simply do not know, and I argue that you, the Town Council, do not know either.

Yet you see pre-determined to move down a path called “development agreement” that sounds nice to you and gives you some illusionary cover.

I think you need to stop right where you are in this process and do the work that you are obligated to engage for our benefit BEFORE making the developer happy.

That work consists of concretely and factually laying out the reasons WHY any change in current zoning of the Obey Creek property ought to be considered. What, specifically, are the expected benefits laid out in fine detail?

For reasons that can only be explained in terms of some kind of influence exercised in some way by the developer over the Council you have chosen to ignore this step.

Ultimately, which is not far away, a court may have to determine how appropriate your refusal to address this question may be. I hope it does not come to that.

In order to avoid the costs of a judicial proceeding, and, mostly, in order to do your jobs, you need to lay out for us why any change should be considered.

Only with that basis convincingly established, can any of us judge what the rules should be for the use of the Obey Creek land, more or less restrictive than they are today.

So, from here in France where my French community still believes in reasoned decision making, I implore you to do what you are obligated to do – lay out in detail the reasons for change – before moving ahead with the development agreement process.

You should stop the entire process, put those documented reasons together, and then start whatever process you like if you feel those reasons truly support further consideration of any change in current Obey Creek zoning.

Terry MAGUIRE"

Gun Control And Obey Creek Top CHTC Agenda - Chapelboro.com

It should be an interesting meeting.

Projet Ikéa à Nice: la contre-attaque vient du ciel | Nice | Nice-Matin

How about a drone's view of the roads around Obey Creek at various times of the day?

Jean-Paul Viguier Architecture . Projet . UGC Ciné Cité Paris 19

Why can't we do at least this well, this innovatively, in Chapel Hill and specifically in Obey Creek? Why not make Obey Creek a real "gate" to the city of the Chapel Hill with a grand introduction?

Town of Chapel Hill : News Releases : Solar Development Informational Seminar

Obey Creek?

Thinking Outside the (Big) Box - NYTimes.com

This has to matter.