
{"id":1367,"date":"2007-11-29T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/11\/29\/news-brief-sight-distance-changes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T07:52:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:52:39","slug":"news-brief-sight-distance-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/11\/29\/news-brief-sight-distance-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Sight distance changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved changes to the town land use planning rules to allow for greater flexibility in sight distance requirements. The change was approved unanimously by the board at its meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Dodson, an engineer for Phil Post Associates, explained to the board that the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rules are more rigid than other municipalities and are difficult to satisfy in areas with greater topographic variation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be cutting out hills and filling in bottoms just to meet the ordinance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nAlderman Alex Zaffron agreed, saying the change would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153allow the infrastructure to run with the land.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved changes to the town land use planning rules to allow for greater flexibility in sight distance requirements. The change was approved unanimously by the board at its meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall. Ernest Dodson, an engineer for Phil Post Associates, explained to the board that the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rules&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","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=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}