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Council Approves Another Residential Project on Estes Drive

By admin October 21, 2022Toen Homes

Chapel Hill approves workforce housing near busy development corridor https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article267566907.html A developer got the green light Wednesday to build 107 for-sale townhomes and condos near two schools, neighborhoods and a…

News of a new development application for Estes Drive

By admin August 19, 2022Development, Traffic

The wooded lot on Somerset (address: 710 N. Estes) is the subject of a conditional zoning application, and a proposal to develop it into 92 dwelling units. We learned from…

Estes Neighbors’ Safety Proposals Adopted

By admin February 23, 2022Traffic

At the February 9th Town Council meeting, Town Transportation Planner Bergan Waterson presented the status of various pedestrian and cyclist safety measures and programs. Watch the video of her presentation…

New Schedule for Estes Drive Improvements

By admin November 10, 2021Development

Neighbors from Coker Hills, Coker Hills West, Estes Hills and Huntington-Sommerset met today November 10th with Chapel Hill's planning director, Colleen Willger, and transportation planners Josh Mayo and Bergen Watterson.…

Five reasons Aura does not measure up to the kind of development Chapel Hill needs.

By admin July 1, 2021Development

Aura speeds climate change: (1) increases carbon emissions by allowing 650 parking spaces for vehicles; (2) uses massive amounts of concrete and pavement that will raise temperatures via heat island effect; (3)…

Town Council Votes Second Time JUNE 28th on AURA Rezoning

By admin June 28, 2021Development1 Comment

On June 16, the Town Council voted 5 - 3 in favor of the Aura permit. For a rezoning, the law requires a super majority or two votes with a…

May 26th and June 16th Public Hearings

By admin June 22, 2021Development1 Comment

May 26th public hearing. Estes Neighbors made a comprehensive presentation of the housing, stormwater, buffer and flooding issues. They had requested that the public hearing remain open to take in…

Bad News for Estes Drive From NC DOT

By admin June 10, 2021Development2 Comments

Estes Neighbors has shared the results of the Aura developer's traffic impact analysis that establishes that despite Town turning lane improvements at Estes/MLK, most traffic after Aura will indeed still be worse…

Traffic Model Not Ready for Prime Time

By admin May 10, 2021Development

By the Town traffic engineer’s own admission, when the Town-Wide Traffic Model was run on the Aura project on May 3rd, much work remained to be done. The engineer was…

Traffic will be worse with Aura!

By admin May 9, 2021Development

What is the Town planning for improvements to Estes Drive? Estes Drive cannot be widened according to the DOT. Chapel Hill voted for some changes to the MLK/Estes intersection when…