Town offers tips on Halloween
Come Sunday evening, if you want to visit a business in Carrboro or get to your home in downtown Chapel Hill, be prepared to talk with a law-enforcement officer or a parking monitor.
Both towns have plans to reduce Halloween-related parking and traffic downtown. Chapel Hill will barricade downtown neighborhoods and only allow residents and guests with a specific destination through.
Carrboro will have officers patrolling downtown to redirect traffic away from residential neighborhoods. Both towns plan to tow illegally parked vehicles and Chapel Hill will tow vehicles on downtown streets slated to be closed at 6 p.m. Traffic into downtown will be reduced, with lane closures starting at 7 p.m., and sections of Franklin, Columbia, Raleigh and Henderson streets will be closed from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Chapel Hill is also imposing a 1 a.m. rule for drinking establishments, with no new patrons allowed into bars after that time. Carrboro has not made the rule mandatory, but has asked that places serving alcohol comply voluntarily.
Carrboro businesses owners with questions about Halloween are asked to call 918-7410 prior to Oct. 31.
Downtown residents of Chapel Hill and anyone curious as to the rules and street closings for Halloween this year should visit ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/index.aspx?page=512
To allow public works crews to aid in cleanup, Chapel Hill trash collection normally scheduled for Monday will be picked up Wednesday.
A survey of Halloween events can be found on page 5 of this week’s copy of MILL.