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Ross Scroggs

Ross Scroggs was a Chapel Hill civic official in the 1960s. In March 1963 he chaired the town Planning Board when it reviewed a regional development plan and went on record favoring a large village over a small city. Running for the Board of Aldermen in 1969, he backed an 18-month moratorium on public housing projects, and he was sworn in as an alderman that May, at the meeting where Howard Lee became mayor.

Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1963

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  1. Chapel Hill Planning Board favors a large village in response to the Triangle commission's development plan Reviewing the Research Triangle Planning Commission staff's General Development Plan for Chapel Hill to 1980, the Planning Board went on record preferring that the town grow as a large village rather than a small city. The plan also addressed subdivision layout, a collector road system and a proposed lake on Bolin Creek north of town. People: Ross ScroggsDigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1963, page 1
  2. Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government Lee, Giduz and all seven candidates for the Board of Aldermen took questions at an open forum. Sharp exchanges came over a police review board, which Lee said he had never favored, and over whether the town should pay to cover the Mitchell Lane drain, on which Giduz cited county health tests and Steve Bernholz answered that 'the ditch stinks'. People: Howard N. Lee, Roland Giduz, Robert Varley, Ross ScroggsDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 2, 1969, page 1 (OCR text)
  3. Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall More than 140 people packed the second-floor room of Town Hall for the 7:30 p.m. meeting at which town clerk Roberts swore in Lee after outgoing mayor Sandy McClamroch reviewed his ten years in office. New aldermen Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George Coxhead and Ross Scroggs were sworn in, and Lee's first board elected David Ethridge mayor pro tem. People: Howard N. Lee, Sandy McClamroch, R. D. Smith, W. David Ethridge, Ross ScroggsDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 14, 1969, page 1 (OCR text)

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