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Join us for the annual Coker Hills Fourth of July Kids' (and their grownups!) Parade
CHNA Neighborhood Events for 2025
We hope you’ll join your neighbors at these fun, family friendly events this year!
(Scroll down for pictures from these events in past years)
Spring Egg Hunt - Saturday, April 12, 2pm
Ice Cream Social - Saturday, June 7, 3pm
July 4th Bike Parade - Friday, July 4, 9am
Dogs, Tunes & Ice Cream - Sunday, Aug 24, 5pm
Oktoberfest! - Saturday, Sep 27, 2pm to 5pm
Halloween Pizza Party - Friday, Oct 31, 5pm
Recent events - the School's Out Ice Cream Social and the Spring Egg Hunt
There's no such thing as too many sprinkles!
The annual meeting of the Coker Hills Neighborhood Association was held January 26 at 1:00 pm at the Chapel Hill Public Library. Minutes of the meeting can be found here.
The Halloween pregame
pizza party was a success!
The Halloween pregame
pizza party was a success!
Dozens of kids and kids-at-heart shared pizza and drinks before going out to trick or treat in the neighborhood.
Thanks for joining us at our second annual Oktoberfest on October 13!
It was great fun to see so many folks converge on EC Leonard Park and Playground on a beautiful fall day, to catch up with familiar friends and to meet new people. A special thanks to all who helped out, offered and donated tables and chairs, and contributed to the potluck. Thanks as well for your generous donations to Western North Carolina disaster relief and to those in need closer to home through PORCH.
Neighbors who have paid Neighborhood Association dues received a souvenir Coker Hills pint glass. If you have paid your dues for this year and didn't pick up a glass please let us know!
Fourth of July Kids' Parade!
Music, Dogs, and Fun in the Park!
Neighbors enjoyed music, family and friends, and free hotdogs and fixin's on Saturdays in May and September.
National Register of Historic Places
The effort to add Coker Hills to the National Register of Historic Places, joining four other neighborhoods in Chapel Hill, has now received preliminary federal approval. The next step in this federal designation process is photographing the exterior of homes in the neighborhood.
Phillip Lyons, of Preservation Chapel Hill, the organization that is shepherding the process, said at a neighborhood information session on February 18, 2024 that the designation could be in place within eighteen months. This federal designation showcases the unique architectural nature of Coker Hills and allows a 15% tax credit on many home renovations. It should be noted that this distinction is quite different from similarly named locally designated "historic districts" in that it places no limits whatsoever on homeowners' ability to modify their property. Background information and online contacts can be found here. You can read the recent neighborhood mailing from Preservation Chapel Hill here.
The board of the Coker Hills Neighborhood Association supports this recognition of our special neighborhood.
Coker Hills Neighborhood Association membership approves changes to the Board of the organization.
The annual meeting of the Coker Hills Neighborhood Association membership was held on Sunday, January 7, 2024. Click here to see meeting notes.
Board of Adjustment Rules against challenge to Turkish Center Scholars' House Expansion
In a hearing on January 11, 2024, the Chapel Hill Town Board of Adjustment ruled against the Coker Hills Neighborhood Association Board and some neighbors who had appealed an expansion of the Sancar Turkish Center's Scholars' House on Velma Road. The Board ruled that the CHNA did not have standing to oppose the change. The CHNA Board's action was prompted by the Town's approval of a building plan that is considerably larger than originally presented to the neighborhood in 2016.
Follow this link for details on the CHNA Board decision to appeal.
Thanks to all who joined us for the Halloween Pizza Party and the Concert in the Park with the fabulous Drowning Lovers!
Congratulations and thanks to all the neighbors who embraced the spooky for Halloween!
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