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UID:meeting-1608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Planning Commission
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Planning Commission\n\nChapel Hill's Planning Commission took up a site plan for seven new for-sale cottage-style homes on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard\, replacing a single-family house on a two-thirds-acre lot\, and continued a broader discussion comparing how peer towns define a "complete community."\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/9/2295_A_Planning_Commission_25-09-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1608
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2295&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's town council opened legislative hearings on three conditional zoning applications: a mixed-use project of up to 575 apartments and 135 townhomes at 860 Weaver Dairy Road\, a 170-unit project at 115 Chapel Point Road\, and a 76-unit townhome development at 5640 Old Chapel Hill Road. The council heard extensive public comment and staff and applicant presentations on each\, then continued all three hearings to later meetings rather than voting on them that night. The council also adopted a resolution authorizing the town to enter opioid settlement agreements and called a hearing on an omnibus set of land use ordinance changes covering housing\, permitting\, signs and parking.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/9/2302_A_Town_Council_25-09-24_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1610
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2302&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's town council takes up a modification to the conditional zoning for the Hillmont development at 146 Stancell Drive that would cut required affordable housing units from 43 to 20 in exchange for a $1.15 million contribution to the town's Affordable Housing Fund\, along with a special use permit modification for a 195-foot telecommunications monopole at 1721 E. Franklin Street and a concept plan review for improvements to the UNC Faculty Club at 1 Alice Ingram Drive.\n\nOn consent\, the council considers a franchise agreement with Public Service Company of North Carolina for natural gas service\, FY2026 Percent for Art funding\, and its 2026 meeting schedule. The agenda also includes a public hearing on housing and community development needs for the Community Development Block Grant program\, a review of applications for a council vacancy\, funding for a Glen Lennox stream restoration project\, and appointments to the Community Design Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/11/2306_A_Town_Council_25-11-12_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1621
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2306&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1623@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's Nov. 19 council meeting opens with proclamations for OWASA's Care to Share Day\, Small Business Saturday\, and Native American Heritage Month\, followed by public comment. On consent\, council enacts a franchise agreement letting PSNC Energy provide natural gas service in town\, and separately discusses applications to fill a current council vacancy.\n\nThe bulk of the meeting covers land-use business: a public hearing on a conditional zoning modification for 146 Stancell Drive\, and an extensive\, multi-motion debate over a wide-ranging package of amendments to the town's Land Use Management Ordinance and Town Code (covering site plan review\, concept plan review\, floor area and parking limits for two-family dwellings\, and stormwater definitions). Council also enters closed session under General Statute 143-318.11(5)\, during which it authorizes extending the town's option to repurchase the Wallace Deck parking facility. Several council members and a resident add last-minute discussion items on ICE activity in the community\, SNAP funding\, tree protection\, and a program encouraging residents to leave fallen leaves in place.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/11/2307_A_Town_Council_25-11-19_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1623
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2307&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1636@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260131
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:INFORMATION ITEMS ONLY
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThis is an information packet\, not an action agenda: Chapel Hill's council is not voting on anything. The single item is a staff update on the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan\, covering community engagement done through 2025.\n\nStaff ran nearly 9\,000 points of contact with residents through focus groups\, in-person and digital surveys\, and multilingual outreach\, including sessions for Mandarin-speaking residents at the Seymour Center. A consultant\, Berry Dunn\, will bring a detailed analysis and recommendations for the final plan to council this summer. Council is asked only to receive the report.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/1/2339_A_Town_Council_26-01-30_Information_Packet.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1636
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2339&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1646@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThis March 25 council meeting handled two proclamations\, a light consent agenda\, and two bigger discussion items. On consent\, the council approved FY 2026 Arts and Culture Awards recipients\, approved multifamily housing revenue bonds for Vitus to acquire and rehabilitate the Elliott Woods and Chase Park Apartments communities (preserving affordable units)\, approved February and March meeting minutes\, and added a late item designating a voting delegate to the NC League of Municipalities board election.\n\nOn the discussion side\, the council appropriated $3 million in FY 2025 General Fund excess fund balance under budget ordinance O-1\, and approved the town's Public Housing Program Annual Plan and Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP)\, which sets eligibility and occupancy rules for the town's public housing. The council then entered closed session under the state's economic-development exemption to discuss a prospective business matter referred to as "Project Periodic\," and adjourned around 8:35 p.m.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/3/2347_A_Town_Council_26-03-25_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1646
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2347&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1652@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's council closed a public hearing on shrinking the town council and extending the mayor's term to four years without taking any action\, and staff confirmed that absent further direction no ordinance would be drafted and the proposal would not return to a future agenda.\n\nEight members of the public spoke\, and none supported the proposals as presented. Several said a smaller council would cut representation for Black residents and other groups who had fought for a voice in town government\, and that the process was moving too fast. Several council members said they would rather put any change to a referendum than adopt it by ordinance.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/4/2349_A_Town_Council_26-04-29_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1652
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2349&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1666@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's Town Council advanced its Homestead Gardens affordable housing development June 17\, authorizing development contracts and ground leases with both Community Home Trust (for townhomes) and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County (for duplexes). The council also enacted a nondiscrimination ordinance amendment prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation and in employment\, awarded a $2\,363\,978.32 construction contract to Lanier Construction for the Fordham Boulevard Sidepath between Cleland and Willow drives\, and approved the recommended funding plan for the town's Human Services Funding Program. A left-turn restriction from North Street into the Rosemary parking deck was also enacted.\n\nOn discussion items\, the council received and filed both a campaign contribution limitations discussion and a Complete Community implementation update without further action\, then voted to continue its Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO) discussion to June 22 rather than take it up that night. The council filled seats on the Board of Adjustment\, Historic District Commission\, and Planning Commission\, and closed for a personnel and property matter before authorizing\, in open session afterward\, an option extension agreement for the Wallace Deck. All recorded votes passed\, several unanimously\; the record does not specify roll-call splits beyond that.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/6/2353_A_Town_Council_26-06-17_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1666
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2353&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3131@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:Library\, Meeting Room B
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's council spent Tuesday evening on two planning presentations and took no votes. The first was the Everywhere to Everywhere Greenways feasibility study\, which staff brought back with a community engagement summary after updates in February and June. The second was the draft rewrite of the Land Use Management Ordinance\, with a staff memo\, a reference guide and maps of greenways and of arterial and collector streets.\n\nStaff asked for guidance on the greenways study and comment on the draft ordinance. Neither item carried a recommendation to adopt anything.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/9/2337_A_Town_Council_26-09-16_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3131
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2337&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3128@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:INFORMATION ITEMS ONLY
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's 30 September information packet carries three reports for the town council. It is not a meeting\, and nothing in it is up for discussion or a vote. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority asks for comment on draft principles for dealing with PFAS\, the "forever chemicals" it finds in the Cane Creek Reservoir\, in wastewater and in biosolids. OWASA held community chats on 1 and 6 October and will take the feedback to its board in late fall.\n\nThe town's housing department reports 72 affordable homes developed and 252 preserved in fiscal 2026\, with $6.3 million spent through partners. That puts the town at 27% of its five-year development goal and 76% of its preservation goal. The packet also carries a progress update on the J Branch Rail Trail study. The study is looking at the 10.8-mile Norfolk Southern spur that serves UNC's power plant as a possible trail\, and it is due in May 2027.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/9/2342_A_Town_Council_26-09-30_Information_Packet.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3128
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2342&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4686@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002513Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:Library\, Meeting Room B
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\n10 agenda items posted.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/10/2338_A_Town_Council_26-10-14_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4686
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2338&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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