Chapel Hill Taking ‘First Step’ Toward Redeveloping Coal Ash Site

Chapel Hill Taking ‘First Step’ Toward Redeveloping Coal Ash Site

The Chapel Hill Town Council voted last week to enter a brownfields agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for the redevelopment of 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the former police station that sits atop a mound of toxic coal ash.Brownfields agreements are usually meant to limit the liability of a developer that’s building on a contaminated site. The 64-page agreement approved by the council requires t…