News of a new development application for Estes Drive
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…
New Schedule for Estes Drive Improvements
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.
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
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
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
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 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!
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…
Town review meetings for AURA coming up
THIS WEEK: The Planning Commission will meet at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 20th to hear public comment and make a recommendation to the Town Council. If you want to attend or "have…
Transportation and Connectivity Board unanimously denies AURA 5 – 0
On April 5th the Transportation and Connectivity Board unanimously denied the Aura project. Aura proposes a very car centric project of 90% rental housing with a total of 650…