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- **Posted:** 2025-02-24T16:23:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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The Chapel Hill Town Council recently reviewed a potential feasibility study for an everywhere-to-everywhere greenway network. As part of Chapel Hill’s Complete Communities Strategy, the connected greenways envision making bike and pedestrian travel throughout town possible.

The feasibility study, led by McAdams, aims to create an action plan for creating the network, said McAdams Principal-in-Charge Iona Thomas. 

“The town has done this amazing job of envisioning what the community wants to look like in the future, this connected community,” Thomas said at the Feb. 12 meeting. “This community that is safe, where you can make a trip without a car, separated from vehicle traffic to a daily destination, and you want that for your whole community.” 

Thomas described the two-year study as a way to bridge the planning and “cutting the ribbon” stages of a project. She said it will help identify where Chapel Hill is going for both bike and pedestrian travel and in terms of transit and land use, allowing for the development of connections consistent with the town’s vision. 

The feasibility plan would also help provide reliable cost estimates for the projects and well-position the team to apply for federal funding and grants to complete them – as well as ensure projects are both buildable and viable, Thomas explained. 

“The planning documents are like big, fat lines on the map, and sometimes when we draw those lines, they go over parcel boundaries and over streams and over across roads,” Thomas said. “And these barriers that if you’re just drawing a line, it’s easy and the consequences are low. But when it comes to getting a project on the ground, its consequences become very very real.”

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