Category: Placemaking
Using landfills to spur community and economic development
Lisa Stifler is a Research Associate with the Community & Economic Development Program. A number of rural counties throughout North Carolina have used local environmental problems and concerns to spur economic development. In response to closed landfills, escaping methane gas from the landfill … Read more
Thinking about Water and Sewer Impact Fees and Affordable Housing
Jeff Hughes is the Director of the School of Government’s Environmental Finance Center and a School of Government Faculty Member A newly created local chapter of the affordable housing organization Habitat for Humanity begins planning the construction of their first group of homes in a fast growing … Read more
Exploring Water Partnership Opportunities in Surry County
Rick Morse is a School of Government faculty member. Over the past several months Jeff Hughes and Andrew Westbrook of the Environmental Finance Center, along with my Public Intersection colleague Lydian Altman and I, have worked with Surry County public officials to explore water partnership opportu … Read more
Preserving working waterfronts
Lisa Stifler is a Research Associate with the Community & Economic Development Program. One area of community economic development in NC that is often overlooked is around the working waterfronts along the coast, sounds, and other waterways. NC’s coast has seen a rapid increase in development o … Read more
Taxation of Affordable Housing in Community Land Trusts
Imagine that you own a home, but not the land on which it sits. You’re a tenant on the land, subject to a 99-year ground lease. As a condition of the ground lease, you are permitted to sell your home only to a household earning less than the community’s median wage, and the ground lease sets a maxim … Read more
How do local governments create green jobs? Here’s one idea.
Tyler Mulligan is a School of Government faculty member. Have leaders in your community been using words like “green economy” and “green jobs?” What role can a local government play in enhancing the local green economy and creating some green jobs? This post explores one possible role: local governm … Read more
Student Corner: Yanceyville Prepares Downtown Revitalization Strategy – Caswell County
John Killeen is a City and Regional Planning graduate student working in Caswell County. To plan for best use of NC STEP resources, Yanceyville is generating action plans for the STEP priority categories. Siting and developing the Artisan Gallery is a strategy that is close to yielding results, with … Read more
Kelo Revisited: Eminent Domain for Economic Development in North Carolina
Tyler Mulligan is a School of Government faculty member. A New York Times article today covered Pfizer’s announcement that it will be leaving New London, Connecticut, the city at the center of the landmark eminent domain case, Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005). In Kelo, a 5‑4 m … Read more
Golden LEAF’s Community Assistance Initiative (CAI) in Lenior County: An Update
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and the Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. On Monday night, November 9, community leaders from across Lenoir County came together to hear feedback on project proposals that have been submitted to the … Read more
Student Corner: Water Policy for Caswell County
Kate Pearce is a graduate student assistant working in Caswell County. At the request of County Manager, Kevin Howard I drafted water use policy for Caswell County. The policy was drafted by surveying existing policies and procedures from counties of similar size to Caswell namely Montgomery County … Read more