Historic Chapel Hill Site for Dense Housing

0:00Here's more Durham news for March 19th, a 1.24 acre site with four lots and five homes in Chapel Hill's Cameron McCauley Historic District just hit the market. Located on the 200 block of McCauley Street, it's a quick walk to UNC Chapel Hill campus and downtown. The properties include rentals built between 1907 and 1934, contributing to the area's national historic status. The owner, Bibletane, plans to use the sale money to support his Center for Understanding Slavery and Racism, which he started last year to preserve. Records, research history, and spark dialogue. He's owned the land around his Van Street home for the past 40 years. Realtor Tom Grasdy calls it a test for the town's new zoning rules, which aimed to add denser housing like duplexes and backyard cottages in. Single-family areas. Even experts worried demolition could disrupt the neighborhood's streetscape rhythm, but they note historic districts already include such. Editions without starting from scratch.

1:02Chapel Hill's R4 zoning allows up to 11 homes per acre, buildings up to 34 feet tall at the street and 60 feet in the middle, with lots of smallest 4,000 square feet. The town council pushed these changes since 2021 to tackle high-home prices where single-family median sales topped $650,000. Meanwhile, other North Carolina cities like Raleigh and Durham are seeing similar shifts with missing middle-housing policies, boosting permits for, smaller units amid the housing crunch, though affordability gains are slow and debates continue. This episode is supported by our sponsor. Head in, sound on, lights out. That is the routine, S-O-L-I, solelypillow.com.