Congratulations to Susan Romaine for winning a seat on the Carrboro Town Council. Susan is well known for her community good works, and we are thrilled she will bring her organizational and personal skills to becoming an effective member of the Council.<\/p>\n
Additional congratulations to incumbents Damon Seils and Sammy Slade, who won second and third place, respectively. Damon has served two terms and holds an important position as Chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that will help develop regional transit solutions.\u00a0 Sammy has served on Carrboro’s Board of Alderman for a decade, and is known for his enthusiasm and commitment to addressing climate change.<\/p>\n
Carrboro is still a small community and incumbents have a huge advantage with name recognition among its residents. Even so, “Carrboro Steve” ran an impressive campaign, maybe the best ever for a challenger in Carrboro.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Board of Aldermen voted to approve a new Bike Plan.\u00a0 We congratulate the Board for conducting an inclusive and comprehensive process to make this new plan.\u00a0 It is remarkable when a public process goes so well.<\/p>\n
It must be noted that the highly controversial plan to put a 12 foot paved path next to the creek did not achieve priority status in the Bike Plan. But the issue is not dead.\u00a0 Previously the Board had indicated an interest in revisiting the issue.\u00a0 Alderman Sammy Slade felt impelled to remind the Board of a 10 year old resolution to reopen debate. The Board agreed to attach a reference to the 2009 Consultant’s Plan which contains a number of options.<\/p>\n
The good news is that the Town has completed a successful process to determine bicycle priorities. The bad news is that the Town has committed to spending more time to discussing a controversial issue that did not even make the list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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