Northside Neighborhood Articles

Here are websites to some of the articles I have gathered – some of them are print only so I can’t reproduce them here (Note, some of the links need to be pasted into the browser because I had to cut them to fit here)

1. Firstly, the Town of Chapel Hill’s website on the Northside Neighborhood as a Conservation District:
http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/index.asp?NID=809


2. Letter to the editor to the Daily Tar Heel complaining about crimes in the area:
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/
news/2007/12/05/LettersToTheEditor/Crime.In.The.Northside
.Neighborhood.Is.Common-3132294.shtml
Although this is just one example of the Daily Tar Heel’s letters to the editor, there is a clear dichotomy set up between the University’s students/outsiders to the community – and the community itself, which has had numerous parties (some from UNC were not looked upon favorably) in the past attempt to revive/revamp the area.

3. Blogs about making the community safer:
http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2007/08/northside-night-out.html


4. Here’s a DTH article about “locals” taking action themselves.
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/
news/2001/02/05/UndefinedSection/Locals.Act.To.Clean.Up
.Northside-1341551.shtml
5. This article is about fear that a new development of condos would take away from the community’s established atmosphere and would destroy the traditionally black neighborhood’s historical significance – Some of the Print articles I have describe in a more detailed way some of the racial issues surrounding both the preservation and attempts at renovation to the area.
http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/546772.html

6. This article about UNC’s own expansion. As the University’s presence grows some community residents, especially from Northside have reservations about how the expansion will affect them:
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15384

7. According to this article, the Northside Neighborhood is considered to be the birthplace of Chapel Hill’s civil rights movement. The article is about one particular resident of Northside who has been active in bringing forward issues of concern of Northside residents to Chapel Hill’s mayor’s office.
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20569

9. At this link we have minutes from some planning meetings regarding the neighborhood that may be of interest to us:
http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/planning/HCD/
Neighborhood%20Initiatives/Northside,%20Sykes%
20Street%20Neighborhood/Upcoming%20Events.htm

Given all of these articles and more that I have in print with me, our group realized that we don’t want to start a project from scratch to contribute to the numerous unfulfilled promises/projects to the Northside Neighborhood by UNC students and others. Instead we would like to plug ourselves into existing projects that we hope will affect the Northside community as well as other areas of our surroundings.