Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ newest elementary school is taking its first major steps toward becoming a reality. Elementary School 11 will be located in the Northside neighborhood and has been planned to help reduce district overcrowding.

Developers in Chapel Hill recognize that students are a profitable market. But the Chapel Hill community is not, and has never been, limited to students.

Charlie Umstead said he loves the location of his Northside apartment, but strict parking restrictions could make it harder for the UNC junior to live in the area next year.

Students who live in Northside and Pine Knolls will face increased restrictions on parking if a plan that targets those communities passes unchanged.

Local officials hope a new downtown Chapel Hill development might fill a void in affordable rental housing.

Northside and Pine Knolls residents might soon have to limit the number of cars parked at their houses. If Chapel Hill Town Council approves a plan that is currently in its early stages for the neighborhoods, each residence would face a four-car parking limit.

Glen Lennox moved closer to becoming a Neighborhood Conservation District Monday when the Chapel Hill Town Council agreed to approve final plans for phase one of its rezoning Oct.

Residents who demanded a halt on development in the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods earlier this year are discussing a long-term policy regarding student housing.

When junior Kaylon Kirk couldn’t find her backpack in her room, she thought she may have left it in her car.

But when she saw books scattered across the floor and noticed a camera and Xbox were missing, she knew the possessions had been stolen.

Chapel Hill police say Kirk, who lives in the Northside neighborhood, isn’t alone.

Chapel Hill police records show a 42 percent increase in Northside-area break-ins from last year during the same January-to-August period.

Controversy surrounding Greenbridge Developments continued Saturday evening when about 15 area residents stood in nonviolent protest against the condominiums.

For residents of a Chapel Hill neighborhood, a decade-long struggle over residential development met overwhelming support at tonight’s meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council.

Sunday morning at 101 N. Merritt Mill Road, and hymns and amens ring from the red brick sanctuary at the street corner.

St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal is the oldest predominantly black church in Chapel Hill. Confronted with size limitations and a changing congregation, the building that has been a community center for the last 145 years opted for something radical.

Velma Perry has lived at 308 Lindsay Street for 88 years.

From the parlor window of the white and green bungalow house that her grandfather built in 1921, Perry has watched the historically black neighborhood of Northside change from a tight-knit community of single-family homes to a rental neighborhood for students.