by admin | Jun 28, 2023 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Bolin Forest
The Carrboro Council instructed the staff to conduct an “engagement process” to determine preferences for a new bikeway based on the 2009 Greenways Conceptual Plan which lacks one important route option. Friends of Bolin Creek in December 2009 presented...
by admin | Jan 27, 2018 | Bolin Creek paving controversy
Daily Tarheel BY Sophia Wilhelm Resting in the neck of the woods of Carrboro is the Carolina North Forest, the last untouched forested land of the town — but possibly not for long. A plan to put a 10-foot wide pavement trail along the 1.7 mile stretch of the forest’s...
by admin | May 3, 2016 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed
Many knew about Carrboro’s 1B Multi-Use route (from Claremont to Homestead Road and then east to Chapel Hill High School. What almost no on knew until a few weeks ago was that the route would intersect with the High School’s Cross Country Course three...
by admin | Mar 24, 2013 | Bolin Creek paving controversy
Here is a laudatory article in the Chapel Hill News about the new greenway to alleviate the hazards of biking on Greensboro St – a project which we supported. However, there are also some discomfiting quotes from Carrboro planner Jeff Brubecker about another...
by admin | Nov 11, 2011 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Riparian buffers
This article by John N. Morris was published in the Carrboro Citizen on November 2, 2011. ♦ Well, it’s enough to restore your faith in reasoned discussion and democracy! After a healthy debate for more than a year about whether the OWASA easement along Bolin Creek in...
