{"id":230,"date":"2007-05-04T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/05\/04\/town-charter\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:03:44","slug":"town-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/05\/town-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an extra in this week&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/\"><em>The Carrboro Citizen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We published the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/charter-of-the-town-of-carrboro\/\">Charter of the Town of Carrboro<\/a>. Well, most of it.  We wanted to celebrate our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrboro.com\/carrboroday\/\">Carrboro Day<\/a> as a newspaper in a special way. So, we got down to basics.<\/p>\n<p>The two-and-a-half pages in the paper detail the changes, modifications and additions to the town Charter since the last extensive re-write in 1987. You&#8217;ll find how the town organization and elections, it&#8217;s authority to regulate business, levy taxes, fees and a lot of specifics.<\/p>\n<p>What we left out of the paper \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the full text of section 2.1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is pretty interesting as well. It&#8217;s the physical description of the town with language like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>running thence southwestward along the center line of Smith Level Road 750 feet to the center line of Morgan Creek, then along the eastern right-of-way of Smith Level Road 2,550 feet to the northern right-of-way line of Culbreth Road; running thence along the northern right-of-way line of Culbreth Road South 76\u00c2\u00b0 24\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 East a distance of 357.24 feet, thence to the center line of the Culbreth Road right-of-way South 13\u00c2\u00b0 36\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 West a distance of 30 feet, thence South 48\u00c2\u00b0 West 189.88 feet along the eastern property line of . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s on the Web version.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/charter-of-the-town-of-carrboro\/\">Charter of the Town of Carrboro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an extra in this week&#8217;s edition of The Carrboro Citizen We published the Charter of the Town of Carrboro. Well, most of it. We wanted to celebrate our first Carrboro Day as a newspaper in a special way. So, we got down to basics. The two-and-a-half pages in the paper detail the changes, modifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}