CHAPEL HILL -- Teams of volunteers and Chapel Hill police officers will walk door-to-door in four neighborhoods near the UNC-Chapel Hill campus today in the sixth annual Good Neighbor Initiative.
The effort encourages students who live near campus to develop good relationships with their neighbors and to keep their neighborhoods clean and safe.
This year the visits will occur a few weeks later in the semester than usual to catch students when they are not busy moving in.
For the first time, teams will deliver booklets of community resources and local business coupons to permanent neighborhood residents as well. The neighborhoods on the route are Northside, Pine Knolls, North Columbia and Cameron-McCauley.
The booklets have information about garbage collection and recycling dates, noise ordinances and alcohol laws, voter registration, local maps, transit information and neighborhood histories.
The teams will meet at the Hargraves Community Center, 216 N. Roberson St., at3 p.m. and make their deliveries until about 7 p.m.
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