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Mark Chilton

Chilton was elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1991 at the age of 21, later served as a Carrboro alderman, and was mayor of Carrboro until 2013. In 2014 he won the Democratic primary for Orange County register of deeds after pledging to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Mark Chilton is elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council at 21 Chilton, then a UNC undergraduate, won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1991 at the age of 21 and served until 1997. He took a geography degree from UNC in 1993 and a law degree from North Carolina Central University in 1997.Search the index · INDY Week: Mark H. Chilton
  2. Assembly of Governments agrees compensation items for neighbors of the landfill Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro met as an Assembly of Governments in 1997 to take up benefits for people living near the Orange Regional Landfill and agreed a set of compensation items. In 2007 Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton wrote that not all of them had been carried out. People: Mark ChiltonOrangePolitics: Commissioners discuss waste transfer station tonight
  3. Mark Chilton serves on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen Chilton moved to Carrboro and sat on the Board of Aldermen from 2003 to 2005, the seat from which he ran for mayor. He was working as an attorney and a broker and living in downtown Carrboro.Search the index · INDY Week: Mark H. Chilton
  4. Mark Chilton serves four terms as mayor of Carrboro Chilton was mayor of Carrboro from 2005 to 2013. Supporters held a roast in October 2013 to mark the end of his fourth term and about twenty years in local office.Search the index · INDY Week: Mark H. Chilton
  5. Mike Nelson presides over his last meeting as mayor of Carrboro At the December 6, 2005 meeting the Board of Aldermen approved the November 8 election results, in which Mark Chilton defeated Alex Zaffron for mayor, 1,337 to 776, and outgoing Mayor Michael Nelson gave his parting comments. People: Mark Chilton, Diana McDuffee, Alex ZaffronSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 6, 2005
  6. Carrboro annexed subdivisions on the west side of Rogers Road Carrboro annexed six subdivisions north of Homestead Road, including Fox Meadow and Highlands, bringing part of the Rogers Road area inside town limits. In September 2004 the aldermen had voted 6 to 1 to go ahead even though the historic neighborhood had asked the two towns to move their annexation boundary so the community would not be split. People: Mark ChiltonINDY Week: Carrboro residents, still smarting from annexation, protest new development
  7. Joal Hall Broun serves as Carrboro's mayor pro tem Town budget documents for fiscal years 2006-07 and 2007-08 list Alderman Joal Hall Broun as mayor pro tempore, serving under Mayor Mark Chilton. People: Mark Chilton, Joal Hall BrounTown of Carrboro: Recommended Budget, Fiscal Year 2006-07
  8. Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Resolution No. 123/2005-06, making it police policy not to arrest or take into custody anyone solely because they have or may have committed a civil immigration violation. The board had asked the town attorney to research the question on April 18, 2006. People: Mark Chilton, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Joal Hall Broun, Alex ZaffronTown of Carrboro (Mount Holyoke IDA repository copy): Board of Aldermen minutes, May 16, 2006
  9. Carrboro adopts an anti-lingering ordinance at the Jones Ferry and Davie roads day-labor corner After neighbors complained about conditions at the corner where day laborers, many of them Latino, waited for contractors, the Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance barring waiting at the intersection of Jones Ferry and Davie roads from 11 a.m. to 5 a.m. In September 2007 the board had also approved an action plan and a motion to create a designated space for day laborers. People: Mark ChiltonThe Carrboro Citizen: Carrboro to revisit anti-lingering (June 30, 2011)
  10. Lydia Lavelle is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen In her first run for office Lavelle led the field of aldermen candidates with 1,656 votes, about 25 percent, ahead of two-term incumbent Joal Hall Broun and Dan Coleman. She lived in the northern part of town Carrboro had recently annexed, and Mayor Mark Chilton read her first-place finish as a sign that voters were ready to move past the annexation fight. People: Joal Hall Broun, Mark ChiltonSearch the index · The Carrboro Citizen: Lavelle wins a seat; Broun, Coleman, Chilton returned to board
  11. Commissioners reject closing the Carrboro and Cedar Grove branch libraries Facing recession cuts while opening the new Hillsborough main library, the county manager proposed closing the Carrboro branch at McDougle School and the Cedar Grove branch and moving their staff to the new building. After opposition from Commissioner Mike Nelson, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and residents, commissioners rejected the closures and used reserve funds to staff the new library in the budget adopted in June 2009. People: Mike Nelson, Mark Chilton, Lucinda MungerThe Carrboro Citizen, "Carrboro library cuts on the table" (May 14, 2009)
  12. Carrboro aldermen approve criteria for siting a freestanding library The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to approve criteria, recommended to the Orange County commissioners, for siting a freestanding southwest Orange County library in Carrboro, whose county branch was then housed in McDougle School. Aldermen ranked transit, walking and cycling access first, while Nerys Levy of the Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library asked for ample parking for older patrons and stressed access to computers and information. People: Mark Chilton, Lydia LavelleThe Carrboro Citizen: Carrboro OKs library siting criteria (Susan Dickson, March 8, 2012)
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  1. Mark Chilton compiles a land grant atlas of old Orange County Chilton wrote The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County, Volume 2: The Saxapahaw Old Fields, tracing title to about a thousand parcels between 1728 and 1818 in western Orange and eastern Alamance counties. He found that roughly 95 percent of the county's deed records for 1752 to 1781 were lost after a Tory official buried the deed books and they rotted.Search the index · INDY Week: Mark H. Chilton
  2. Mark Chilton wins the register of deeds primary on a same-sex marriage pledge Chilton took just over 42 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, beating the incumbent register of deeds, Deborah Brooks, and a second challenger. He had campaigned on a promise to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the state ban, and because no Republican filed, the primary settled the office.Search the index · Facing South: Meet North Carolina's revolutionary register of deeds

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Background on Orange County landfill campaign

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Rogers Road

Pearce, Emily Eidenier · 2009

Emily Eidenier Pearce's history of Rogers Road, the historically African American neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and of what happened to it after Orange County opened its landfill next door in 1972. Drawing on interviews with residents, the book records the neighborhood's origins, family life, churches and customs, and then the environmental and social burdens of decades beside the landfill. Privately issued in 2009, 298 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

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Report on socioeconomic and demographic data for the Orange regional landfill and the four alternative landfill sites that are being considered for a new landfill

Town of Chapel Hill Planning Dept · 1996

A June 19, 1996, report by the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department presenting 1990 census data on the areas around the Orange regional landfill and four alternative sites under consideration for a new landfill, prepared under North Carolina General Statutes 160A-325 and 153A-136(c), which call for such review before a landfill is sited.

UNC

Regeneration of a wasteland : design alternatives for the reuse of the Orange County, NC landfill

Buck, Kathleen King · 2001

Kathleen King Buck's master of landscape architecture project at North Carolina State University, proposing design alternatives for reusing the Orange County landfill site. Completed in 2001 in 63 leaves with illustrations, plans and maps, several of them in color. Topics include earthwork fills in the county along with the design, construction and environmental aspects of waste disposal sites.

NC State

Out of sight, out of mind : a contingent valuation analysis of the siting of sanitary landfills

Woo, Lillian G. · 1996

Lillian G. Woo applied contingent valuation, the method economists use to price goods that are not traded, to the siting of sanitary landfills, with Orange County among the North Carolina cases. Environmental policy, public goods valuation and landfill location are the subjects. A 26 page landfill survey sits in a pocket at the end, and the bibliography runs from leaf 249 to 259. Dated 1996.

UNC

Report of preliminary engineering evaluations : Orange regional landfill site search

1995 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Joyce Engineering of Greensboro prepared this February 1995 report on preliminary engineering evaluations for the Orange regional landfill site search, examining candidate sites for a new landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a loose leaf binder. Topics include sanitary landfills, sanitary engineering and engineering geology in Orange County.

UNC

Economic cost analysis in MSW landfill siting : the Orange County case study

Henrikson, Brett · 1994

Brett Henrikson's 1994 honors paper at Duke University works through the economics of siting a municipal solid waste landfill, using Orange County as its case study. Topics include the location and the costs of sanitary landfills, both in the county and in the United States generally. A typescript of 41 numbered leaves followed by 74 more that are unnumbered.

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Supplemental information packet : Orange County landfill site search

1994 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

A supplemental packet of information for the Orange County landfill site search, dated 26 September 1994 and prepared by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, four further pages of maps inserted. It belongs to the run of consultant reports produced while the county looked for a regional landfill site.

UNC

Mass political participation in the local context : a case study

Peek, Leigh A. · 1992

Leigh A. Peek's case study of the Coalition to Remove Site OC-5, the group that organized against a proposed municipal solid waste landfill in Orange County. The paper uses the fight as an example of mass political participation at the local level, concerning land use, political participation and sanitary landfills in the county. Dated 1992, bibliography on leaves 29 to 30.

UNC

Report of additional services to the landfill site search : Orange regional landfill

1991 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Dated 11 November 1991, a report of additional services carried out by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro in the search for a site for the Orange regional landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a spiral binding. Topics include the location of sanitary landfills and engineering geology in Orange County.

UNC

Survey of solid waste management activities, Region J, North Carolina

Triangle J Council of Governments; North Carolina. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development · 1980 · Triangle J Council of Governments

Triangle J Council of Governments surveyed solid waste activities across Region J in 1980, taking in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake counties. Refuse collection, disposal practice and sanitary landfills are treated county by county. Preparation was financed in part by a state planning assistance grant.

UNC

Michael R. Nelson papers, circa 1890-2012

Nelson, Michael R., 1963- · 1890

Roughly 2,000 items in 6.5 linear feet kept as the papers of Michael R. Nelson, born 1963, dated from about 1890 to 2012, collection 70140 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include politics and government in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County, campaign paraphernalia, and gay activists and politicians in North Carolina, naming Joseph A. Herzenberg, 1941 to 2007.

UNC

Orange County Landfill (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Orange County's landfill, followed through newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, promotional materials, reports and maps. Undated folder in box 32 of the Carrboro and Orange County series, Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

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  • Start here · NC 333.16 CHILTON The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County Chilton, Mark · 2012

    Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.

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