Sidewalks

One of my urban interests is sidewalks - where they are, how to use them, who uses them, and how they are designed and constructed.

It struck me yesterday walking from Parking Lot #5 to Carrboro that the sidewalks of Chapel Hill are really quite nice for the most part along that route, but that there is one principal problem when one enters - more or less - Carrboro.

The sidewalks are too close to the road.

Just after I passed Crook's Corner, a bus passed me. Although I was in the center of the sidewalk, had I raised my arm, I could have touched the bus as it roared by.

Is there any Carrboro plan either to widen the sidewalks or to put in a buffer zone between the sdewalk and the curb?