The Chapel Hill Planning Commission voted 5–0 to recommend Town Council approve a conditional zoning for 101 Weaver Dairy Road Extension to permit a replacement fire station and 50–105 affordable housing units, subject to conditions and clarifications including AMI language and tree‑canopy requests.

Leaders said a data-center tax-break bill failed to gather enough votes out of Ways and Means after pressure from labor and industry; they flagged juvenile rehabilitation, public-defense funding and education funding formulas as unfinished items for the next session.

The ERB examined a special‑permit request from Science of the Soul to convert 11 acres into event parking (proposed capacity ~936 cars) and asked for wetland delineation, clean‑fill protocols, truck‑route and noise mitigation, floodplain compensation and limits on post‑construction use.