Growth & Development
It is nice to be in a town that has a mayor who is willing to speak to the
zeitgeist. Feeling it also, a couple of months ago I created these
designs ...
The
last one has been printed on t-shirts if anyone is interested in
partaking in some t-shirt activism ... now to show your support for our mayor's courage.
Changing our town's name by October 24
could turn an April Fools joke into a symbolic gesture to be heard
throughout the world in a time when action on climate change is dangerously
overdue. Can the joke go to symbol and then to action?
Via e-mail from the Town Chapel Hill:
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CAROLINA NORTH
Public Input/Information Session
Advisory Board Review
7:00 – 9:00 pm, Wednesday, April 1 * Chapel Hill Town Hall * 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
A
Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held in the
Chapel Hill Town Council Chambers at 405 Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard. At the meeting, Town Advisory Boards will be presented
information about the University proposal as well as the regulatory
mechanism that has been endorsed by the Town Council and University
representatives as the preferred tool for guiding development at
Carolina North: establishment of a Development Agreement with a base
zoning district. Public Comment will be accepted.
Carolina
North is expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace
Williams Tract’s 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50
years, as proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive
adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Town and the
University are now engaged in the preparation of a new zoning district
and a Development Agreement for the initial phase of Carolina North,
expected to be 133 acres to be developed over approximately 20 years.
For more information, contact the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department at (919) 968-2728 or
carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org. Additional material is posted online at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Date:
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 3:00pm
Location:
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Lately I have read many articles on the success and development of small farms and agri-businesses across the country. Key to the success of these operations is on-site processing of the agricultural products to add value. For example, rather than simply raising goats, the farmer would collect the milk, process to cheese and potentially retail on site. Another example was a farmer growing hops and barley for an on-site microbrewery.
A nearby example would include grape growing and wine production in the Yadkin Valley.
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CAROLINA NORTH
Public Input/Information Session
3:00 - 7:00 pm, Wednesday, March 4 * Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road, Chapel Hill *
A Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held at Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road. Please note that in response to feedback from the public, the times have been modified and the session is now scheduled from 3 pm – 7 pm.
Carolina North is expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace Williams Tract’s 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50 years, as proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Town and the University are now engaged in the preparation of a new zoning district and a Development Agreement for the initial phase of Carolina North, expected to be 133 acres to be developed over approximately 20 years.
There is another Carolina North Public Input/Information Session tonight, February 19, 2009, at 7PM in the Town Council chamber. There is already a draft of new language for the Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO) to cover development on the Carolina North property as well as a draft of a development agreement which would be the basis for the Town of Chapel Hill's oversight of this massive project. Both of these drafts as well as a great deal of other information can be obtained at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.asp?NID=1821
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