CHAPEL HILL - Following on the heels of a $1.86 million annual contract for new coach Butch Davis, the North Carolina football program won approval of a $75 million expansion at Kenan Stadium.

On Monday night, the Chapel Hill Town Council approved changes to UNC's campus development plan, including a project that would add more than 8,800 seats to the 60,000-seat stadium.

New box seats and the final leg of a concourse on the eastern end of the stadium will displace the Spanish revival fieldhouse near the Rams Head Plaza. Kenan Stadium also will gain new restrooms, concession stands and a new pedestrian path to Rams Head.

The stadium will be under construction from November 2008 until September 2010.

The approved plans also include doubling the number of seats at Boshamer Stadium, where last year's national runner-up baseball team plays its home games.

The $14 million project would bring the seating at Boshamer to about 4,000 and create new concession stands and restrooms, a new batting tunnel, field, lighting and landscape improvements and a new maintenance building.

That project is scheduled for next summer and fall. The stadium should reopen in January 2008.