Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:42:56 -0500 From: Kim Ringeisen Subject: In_response_to_private_property_owners_rights? A_few_questions? as I read the post about “forcing” private property owners to bow to [insert your cause] from the 18 February Chatlist, I find it a bit comical to state that no one can tell us what toContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:17:43 -0500 From: Taylor Kish Subject: Lynch mobs pull together, too Property owner, Gil McNeil, opines when a group with enough support pulls together they might win. Here is my real question. . . What is Chatham Park proposing that existing laws, rules, and ordinancesContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:57:09 -0800 (PST) From: stephanie talbott Subject: Utopian-NOT-planned communities Re. Leela Ellis’s post about the “Utopian” Columbia, a planned community in Maryland; I grew up in a beautiful area North of Baltimore City. Columbia was the “be all, end all” in planned communities. Years later,Continue Reading
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:39:50 -0500 From: Pittsboro Matters Subject: Pittsboro Matters Won’t Be Wearing Colors This last week people who both support and oppose the current Chatham Park Master Plan suggested in the Chatlist that people should wear green Monday night at the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners meeting.Continue Reading
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:50:51 -0500 From: chathammatters Subject: Sustainable Development Sustainable Development – we’ve heard much from Pittsboro Matters/Chatham Coalition about how Chatham Park needs to implement Sustainable Development, but what exactly is Sustainable Development? Where did Sustainable Development originate? The term Sustainable Development was first introduced toContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:00:28 -0500 From: “Tom Glendinning” Subject: Kish post “This is how it takes hold in Chatham County” Some notes on property rights, in Chatham County In the 1970’s, I rented farmland up the road. The owner wished to properly post the land. We walked theContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:15:42 -0500 From: leela ellis Subject: Columbia When I was in my twenties, my sister and her new husband moved to an incredible new planned community in Maryland. It was called Columbia Maryland. It was written up in forward-thinking papers and magazines all across theContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:34:49 -0500 From: Taylor Kish Subject: This is how it takes hold in Chatham County People don’t know so they ask the Chatlist, “Will Chatham Park be clear cut all at once or parcel-by-parcel?” There are so many biases and assumptions in that simple question. Continue Reading
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:27:26 -0500 From: Gene Galin Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Bulletin Board Topics 1. Mega site website (Read 3016 times) at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,30603.0.html 2. Jan Nichols, Coalition Tactics Again (Read 2170 times) at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,29635.0.html 3. Clay Aiken for Congress (Read 1899 times) at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,30666.0.html 4. Chatham ChatlistContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:53:04 -0500 From: Amanda Robertson Subject: Support Our Local Businesses… and Our Way of Life When we moved here three years ago, my husband and I quite purposefully decided to support our local businesses as much as possible. We had Valentine’s Dinner at the RoadhouseContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:21:55 -0500 From: “Frans C Verhagen, PhD” Subject: What is to happen to Chatham Park in 2014? Chatham Chatlist #4877What is to happen to Chatham Park in 2014? I moved last year to Chatham County from New York City where I worked as a sustainabilityContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:34:52 -0700 From: “Bella Donna Italian Restaurant” Subject: Calling all concerned citizens On February 24 there will be very interesting things going on at the Pittsboro Town Commissioners meetings. On the 24th at the Historical Courthouse starting at 7:00 p.m., the Lawrence Group, which wasContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:47:01 -0500 From: Kira Dirlik Subject: Lyle’s post Lyle wrote: > I didn’t see anything on the Chatlist about how the Research > Triangle Park is now expanding, and adding a residential component > to the mix. It made me think that that perhaps ChathamContinue Reading
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:08:20 +0000 From: Tom West Subject: Is Jane Forbes the smartest person in Chatham County? Former Chatham Coalition Commissioner George Lucier better watch out. Looks like someone is looking to replace him as the “smartest person in Chatham County.” Found this proclamation by PittsboroMatters’ memberContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:58:38 -0500 From: “Tom Glendinning” Subject: To Maryphyllis Maryphyllis, You express yourself well. However, I find that you have eaten of the fruit of the last damn Yankee tree, and you wish to shut the door so no more may intrude. The fine people whoContinue Reading