Dear Mr Huynh,
It was a genuine pleasure to meet you on the CHALT call on Monday. My husband and I are new to CHALT and local affairs in general, but clearly you are well versed in the recent
workings and directions of the Town.
I returned to Chapel Hill 3.5 years ago after 22 years in Manhattan. The Town of Chapel Hill I returned to was mystifying and growing increasingly ugly. In my work, I visit
university towns and cities regularly, and Chapel Hill is beginning to stand out—but not for positive reasons.
The aesthetics the university embodied and codified have been abandoned to apartments best described as Soviet-inspired. The Town appears to be going in an increasingly cheapened
direction.
From an aesthetic viewpoint, AURA is hardly different from the Blue Hill District—but perhaps AURA is less ugly than the proposed SHEETZ convenience/food store with gasoline and self-storage building less than .5 mile from
AURA, the proposed high-end development.
Chapel Hill is at a crossroads and I hope you can see this and know that you are part of the Town leadership responsible for the long-term outcomes of your actions.
Regards,
Rita M May and Stephen H Fleck
