
{"id":1230,"date":"2007-11-01T07:49:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/carrboro-mayoral-candidate-mark-h-chilton\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T07:49:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:49:32","slug":"carrboro-mayoral-candidate-mark-h-chilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/carrboro-mayoral-candidate-mark-h-chilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro mayoral candidate: Mark H. Chilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mark.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Age: <\/em>37<\/p>\n<p><em>Neighborhood:<\/em> Downtown Carrboro<\/p>\n<p><em>Family: <\/em>Married with two boys, ages 6 and 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>Profession\/Business: <\/em>Attorney and broker<\/p>\n<p><em>Education &amp; Experience: <\/em>Juris Doctor NCCU School of Law 1997; Bachelor of Arts, UNC-CH, Geography, 1993.\u00c2\u00a0 Chapel Hill Town Council, 1991-1997; Carrboro Board of Aldermen, 2003-2005; Mayor of Carrboro, 2005-present.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Endorsements: <\/em>The NC Sierra Club; The Hank Anderson Breakfast Club; The Independent Weekly; The Chapel Hill News; The Carrboro Police Officers Association<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you hope to accomplish if elected?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to help make Carrboro a more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community by addressing the issues listed in response to the next question.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are the top two or three critical issues facing Carrboro?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Diversify Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tax base through careful downtown re-development and revisions to the Northern Small Area Plan.<\/p>\n<p>2. Make Carrboro the most pedestrian and bicycle friendly town in North Carolina by completing bicycle and pedestrian improvements on Estes Drive Extension and Smith Level Road and creating a Bolin Creek Greenway and a Morgan Creek Greenway.<\/p>\n<p>3. Complete revisions to the Northern Small Area Plan with an emphasis on diverse housing, economic development, open space preservation, stream protection and farmland conservation.<\/p>\n<p><em>What have you learned about our town in the campaign?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is my third time running for office in Carrboro in the last four years. That means that I have walked along almost every street in Carrboro three times and I have knocked on thousands and thousands of doors. I have had the chance to speak with a huge number of residents and collectively they seem to agree on three points: 1) We need to limit Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property taxes. 2) We need to make Carrboro a more walkable community. And 3) we live in the greatest town in North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Age: 37 Neighborhood: Downtown Carrboro Family: Married with two boys, ages 6 and 8. Profession\/Business: Attorney and broker Education &amp; Experience: Juris Doctor NCCU School of Law 1997; Bachelor of Arts, UNC-CH, Geography, 1993.\u00c2\u00a0 Chapel Hill Town Council, 1991-1997; Carrboro Board of Aldermen, 2003-2005; Mayor of Carrboro, 2005-present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}