Rethinking the Traditional Retirement Community - NYTimes.com

What options does this present for Obey Creek?

Green roofs

Piece today on France3 at noon in France on toits verts in Paris. How many do we have set for Obey Creek?

Innovative mayors

With all of these mayors coming to Chapel Hill, including a tour of Obey Creek, I wonder what the rest of us might tell them about Chapel Hill Town innovation? Bringing the highest priced movie tickets perhaps in NC to Chapel Hill? Raising the property taxes to the highest or one o the highest in NC?

Sidewalk/trail use survey?

I wonder if the Town ever studies how much pedestrian traffic there is on sidewalks, trails, etc. The sidewalk/trail in front of East54 for example, or the sidewalk along 15-501 in front of Southern Village?

Southern Village Pharmacy

How do we get a better feel for how this pharmacy is doing?

Letter of intent?

If Target is still the elephant in the Obey Creek room, then shouldn't we insist on a letter of intent from them with respect to the property? If such a letter does not emerge, what is the basis on which we are expecting to them to come? If not Target, who? And if another store, then how about a letter? Surely, the letter can be written with caveats such that the store would lose nothing if the plans fall through, but I sure would like to hear them say that they want to do this as of now.

Welcome to Costco Wholesale

I wonder if there would be any more traffic at Obey Creek with a COSTCO than with what is currently "on the table"? Would COSTCO insist on a gas station as part of the package?

Ken Larsen's web site - Ephesus-Fordham Redevelopment Project

Nicely done!

Un tas de fumier sur les marches de la mairie de Tende | Menton | Nice-Matin

I wonder what an Obey Creek protest version of this might look like?

Big mixed-use projects must withstand economic cycles | StarNewsOnline.com

What can we learn from this?

Etats-Unis : un avertissement à la France en replay - 8 mai 2014

Oh dear.

Coversheet

I can only imagine the Obey Creek version of this.

Ephesus-Fordham: We Can Do Better - Chapelboro.com

Potentially very telling commentary. Perhaps we should all be looking to contact those mayors who plan to visit Chapel Hill this summer, if indeed they are coming.

Land Use law

Here is the source for last post.

Neighborhood Commercial

Current zoning.

2020 Comprehensive Plan

I see nothing here that provides a reason or rationale for changing current zoning on the Obey Creek land.

Briar Chapel | Chapel Hill | North Carolina | New Homes

Why is there no commercial services as a part of this? And none in the designated commercial areas along 15-501?

Chapel Hill North Shopping Center - Chapel Hill, North Carolina

For this and every other commercial shopping area of the Town of Chapel Hill, what is both the historical and current statement of costs and revenues to the Town (and the County) from this land and its occupants?

The relevance of tumult at Target?

Is Target still in the Town's dreams?

Council Readies For June Vote On Glen Lennox Plan - Chapelboro.com

What lessons to be learned?

Months after merging with OfficeMax, retailer closing 400 stores - chicagotribune.com

We should fully understand this in an Obey Creek context.

Grading The Ephesus-Fordham Plan - Chapelboro.com

And we learn.....

Opinion: Stand and Deliver - Chapel Hill Magazine

There is much to be learned from what she says here. I still don't have a very good feel for what projects already approved by the Council - and built and functioning - have done for the Town. For example, where is the comparison of the value added - in every respect, including value subtracted - from Timberlyne shopping center, from 140 West Franklin, from the "green" building that went bankrupt, from East54, from Meadowmont, from Southern Village, etc?

One NYC Indie Bookstore Survives By Being Small And Specialized : NPR

Opportunity?

Google Maps

This is the first time I've seen Obie Creek on a map. Not sure about the spelling.....