Schools Want Veto Over Housing
By Staff Editor | Jan. 22, 2001Local school boards might get an innovative tool to fight classroom overcrowding -- the power to approve or deny the construction of new housing developments.The developments are bringing new students to Orange County's already overcrowded classrooms. After two years of planning, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education joined with the Orange County Board of Education and approved the Schools' Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance at a meeting Wednesday. The ordinance gives the school boards the power to refuse building permits for new housing developments in Orange County.
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