Construction could start in the next few years on a plan to add up to 710 apartments and for-sale townhomes to 45 acres along Interstate 40 in northern Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill Town Council heard from about a dozen neighbors of the 860 Weaver Dairy project site on Wednesday and had a robust discussion about stormwater and the town’s housing needs before approving the project 8-1 .
It’s hard to fix “problems that were created by the generations of sprawl,” council member Melissa McCullough said, but the developer is taking steps to address stormwater and add much-needed housing and dense construction that does more with less land…