This series of posts will be made weekly on Chapelboro to help inform our community about local government meetings. All meeting days, locations and times may be subject to change. Check town, county, and school district websites for additional information.
This week is an especially busy one for Orange County Commissioners, who actually meet three times: a regular meeting on Tuesday to discuss a possible moratorium on AI data centers; a joint meeting with Mebane officials on Thursday to consider ways to accommodate population growth; and a retreat on Saturday to discuss housing needs. They may be the busiest elected officials this week – but it’s a busy week all around, with budget discussions in Chapel Hill and Durham (as well as the local schools) and a grand summit of town, county, and state-level elected officials in Chatham County.
Here’s a rundown of local government meetings this week in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.
Orange County
Orange County Commissioners meet not once, but three times this week. Their regular meeting is Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center, with an agenda that includes a discussion of whether to impose a moratorium on the approval of new AI data centers and data mining facilities in Orange County, given concerns about their long-term environmental and infrastructural impacts. (Chatham County Commissioners approved a 12-month moratorium last month.) Commissioners then meet jointly with the Mebane City Council Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the Whitted Building; that agenda includes discussions around land use, water & sewer capacity, and the possibility of future new schools to serve Mebane’s growing population. Finally, the board is also slated to hold a housing retreat on Saturday, March 21. Get links to all the agendas here…