Is suburban car culture killing our children's autonomy as well as their bodies? - NYTimes.com

Designing Healthy Communities — Improving our nation’s public health by re-designing and restoring our built environment

Meadowmont Village :: 116 West Barbee Street, NC, 27517 :: 919.367.8158

Personal Finance | Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill | Community Bank | Harrington

I sure wish Harrington Bank - supposedly in the business of protecting assets - would cease putting door hangers on front doors in Southern Village. Their cause seems ot be laudable, but hanging a flyer on the doorknob of a house where no one may be home is a threat to their security, and any bank should know better - if, indeed, they protect assets.

No formal application for Chatham County Walmart yet - Chatham County - NewsObserver.com

Recycling

How are we doing in Southern Village?

OWASA | Orange Water and Sewer Authority

I just called OWASA to ask what the average water consumption is for their residential cusotmers. The answer is 2,000 gals/month, a figure that has remained quite steady. How do cusotmers in Southern Village measure up against that?

"Streetscapes — The Pedestrian Loses the Way" - NYTimes.com

We should head back to this time.

"Sheep Lawn Mowers, and Other Go-Getters" - NYTimes.com

Imagine the advantages of having sheep "mow" all of the grass everywhere in Southern Village!

"Most City Parks Earn Solid Marks, With Some Lagging" - NYTimes.com

Something to be learned for Southern Community Park? Is it really a park or an athletic and dog-pooping facility with a nice kids' playground? What makes a park a park?

Trail

This from the Chapel Hill Town Council meeitng notes:
"Morgan Creek Trail Improvements: The Council accepted $750,000 in Direct Allocation funds through the Metropolitan Planning Organization's Surface Transportation Program, for phase 2 of the Morgan Creek Trail project. Preliminary estimates indicate that the total project will cost about $2.8 million. The entire Morgan Creek Trail/Fan Branch Trail system is envisioned to be a 10-foot wide trail that will allow pedestrian and bicycle traffic to travel from the southern tip of Southern Community Park to University Lake in Carrboro, with a side trail to Merritt's Pasture.

Phase 2 of the project will connect the existing Fan Branch Trail with the existing section of Morgan Creek Trail. It will involve the construction of about 1,200 linear feet of trail with 2 bridges and an underpass of Culbreth Road. In addition it would directly connect the existing Phase 1 project to the existing 1.6 mile Fan Branch Trail to create a 2.7 mile paved trail that would link Southern Community Park, Southern Village, Scroggs Elementary School, and various neighborhoods south of NC 54."

"Hitting the Road to Get to Work, and Back" - NYTimes.com

I'd love to see a lot more parents undertake "active commutes" in picking up or dropping off their kids at Scroggs, and perhaps other schools. It's embarrassing to imagine what a short distance so many of them likely drive their behemoth automobiles and trucks to and from the school.

"On Facebook, Recalling Neighborhoods as They Once Were" - NYTimes.com

Are we making highest and best use of Facebook for Southern Village?

"The Modern Day HOA" - WUNC

I missed this when aired earlier.

"Help Wanted - Busybodies with Cameras" - NYTimes.com

Something like this might cut down on a lot of the ignored-stop-sign-driving around Southern Village!

Welcome to Southern Village Market Street!

I guess the blog in the last post is connected to this site, but not sure how or where. Odd.

Southern Village Marketplace

I frankly had not seen this blog until just now. It's curious as there is no indication at all of who is responsible for it.

HOME

I hope they'll have a report here on what happened this year. Of special interest is knowing which groups received the profits of the event? Or is this a commercial enterprise?

"Chapel Hill may cut WISE funding for energy improvements" - Daily Tar Heel

Note Rainer DAMMERS mention here. He lives in Southern Vilage at last check and I think is on the HOA board. He is responsible fo this, but it seems like it became a bit of a dead-end effort. Perhaps he will add more details there of all the money he has gotten from various governments for his home improvement projects.

"Turning a Blighted Area in Central Suffolk Into a Hub" - NYTimes.com

Good luck, no? How close did we wind up with Southern Village?