
{"id":24987,"date":"2012-04-12T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:18:10","slug":"letter-grow-but-maintain-small-town-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/12\/letter-grow-but-maintain-small-town-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Grow, but maintain small-town charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad to read Dave Sidor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good piece (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Issues with Chapel Hill 2020,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <em>The <\/em><em>Carrboro Citizen<\/em>, 4\/5\/12) about flaws in the 2020 discussions now taking place in Chapel Hill-Carrboro about land-use and development. We do have to grow. The problem as I see it is how to keep the charm and small-town atmosphere that made us love the place.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of what I have in mind, Boulder, Colo., began building high-rise buildings in the 1960s and soon discovered their height threatened the character of the town. In 1972 they passed a law limiting the height of all new buildings to 46 feet, or about four stories. Many of us who live in or near the historic district would like to see similar limits on the height of Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new buildings.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also like to see more awareness from developers of the need to protect our water sources as well as historic neighborhoods and longtime residents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 peace of mind. As you say, we need more public discussion of the assumptions being used to decide how much and what kind of growth is good.<br \/>\nLet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope we can get some good discussion going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Tilly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad to read Dave Sidor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good piece (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Issues with Chapel Hill 2020,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Carrboro Citizen, 4\/5\/12) about flaws in the 2020 discussions now taking place in Chapel Hill-Carrboro about land-use and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987","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=24987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}