Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:49:30 -0500 From: “Michael Kirkman” Subject: Property Rights Chatham Chatlist #4881 This is big issue with many of us. If you do not live in Pittsboro (or Siler City or other) but within two miles of city limit, you are subject to Pboro zoning rules. Continue 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 16:20:46 -0500 From: amy Subject: Google Fiber and Chatham Google Fiber has just announced that is has 34 cities/locals on deck for installation of Google Fiber Service. Raleigh/Durham/ChapelHill/Carborro is under consideration and google has asked the locals to contribute data such as accurate maps withContinue 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 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: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:21:03 -0500 (EST) From: mphorn22 Subject: Bella Donna Re: Chatham Chatlist #4880 Hi Donna! I read all your green money reasons and a few lower carbon imprint reasons for your wanting Chatham Park to go in as is planned right now. I find it puzzlingContinue 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: 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
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 11:46:36 -0500 From: Allen Matlins Subject: Development and Prosperity in Chatham County Here’s a paragraph from a Special Report in The Economist titled Biodiversity. The bottom line is that wealthier regions sometimes do a better job of protecting and sustaining biodiversity. “that is thanks toContinue Reading
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 01:58:47 -0500 From: “John R Dykers” Subject: Chatham Park and many other Chatham concerns May we judiciously recognize that none of us can speak for “the interests of the citizens of Chatham County and Pittsboro.” Those interests are too varied, a little different for eachContinue Reading