Speaker of the NC House of Representatives Joe Hackney appointed Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton to the legislature’s Joint Study Committee on Housing this past week . . .

Mayor Chilton advocates for smart growth and water conservation in today’s Herald Sun.

Two minutes of footage from a Town Council meeting when Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton persuaded the Chapel Hill Town Council to work with Carrboro in getting bicycle accomodations on Estes Drive.

Some folks in Carrboro have recently discovered their passion for Rogers Road, but they aren’t willing to acknowledge the fuller story of the Rogers Road community. I want to set the record straight.

The Board of Elections met yesterday about the proposed elimination of the on-campus early voting site (because Morehead Planetarium is not available this fall). UNC Vice Provost Steve Allred was there to speak on this matter, as were the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, and representative of Vote Carolina and I. All of us uniformly agreed that the Franklin Street Post Office would be a reasonable compromise (given that the Planetarium was out of the picture).

Here is the open letter I sent to the Board of County Commissioners earlier this year regarding the proposed Solid Waste Transfer Station on Eubanks Road.

For my New Year’s Resolution for 2007, I decided to take tangible steps to reduce my carbon footprint. I was already doing something by riding my bicycle more and driving less, but I wanted to go a step further. But, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money doing it . . .

The N&O reports: “Community members, led by Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton, and university representatives, led by Carolina North Executive Director Jack Evans, agreed that the proposed research campus should not exacerbate the affordable housing problem in Chapel Hill and Carrboro . . .”

The university envisions its proposed Carolina North research campus as a beacon of learning and research, , but the university’s thinking on the subject sometimes fails to appreciate how important quality-of-life issues will be in drawing good people to Carolina North . . .

Hillsborough leaders reaching out
BY EMILY COAKLEY : The Herald-Sun
Oct 14, 2006 : 8:23 pm ET
HILLSBOROUGH — Last month’s local 102-person delegation to Madison, Wis., included two representatives from the county seat.
Mayor Tom Stevens and Eric Hallman, a Town Board member, took another step in reaching out to the county’s other towns. While [...]