Carolina North
A public information meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, to receive comments and feedback on the 2013 Carolina North Development Agreement Annual Report to the Town of Chapel Hill.
The Town meeting will be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of ongoing renovations to Town Council Chamber. The meeting will be held in the Magnolia Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive. Free parking is available, and Chapel Hill Transit serves the building via the NU route.
The report is posted at http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/, which also is where the public can access the Carolina North conservation areas baseline and initial monitoring reports done by a third-party monitor, the Triangle Land Conservancy.
Carolina North is envisioned as a mixed-use academic campus on university-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two miles north of the main campus. University and Town representatives signed a development agreement in 2009 that covers the first 20 years of development on the site. The agreement contains guidelines and standards for the development of the first 3 million square feet of a mixed-use research and academic campus on 133 acres.
The annual report lets the Town and public know what development activities have occurred on the Carolina North site in the past year and the ways in which the University is complying with the terms of the development agreement. The report is part of the structure established by the agreement for providing continued town-gown communication. The report will also be posted online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Town Manager Roger Stancil will review the report and the public input before reporting on Oct. 28 to the Town Council on his review of the development agreement and its requirements.
Public input is welcome. Send comments about the annual report or other issues related to Carolina North at any time to [email protected] or write Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department, Carolina North, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Detailed information is available online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=900 and http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/. To be added to a mailing list to receive regular updates about the Carolina North development agreement, please contact [email protected]
Date:
Monday, September 16, 2013 - 5:30pm
Location:
Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building, 103 Airport Drive
Central West Focus Area Community Drop-By Session
Share your thoughts about the draft Central West Planning Principles!
All are welcome to attend, and please invite your friends and neighbors!
The Central West Steering Committee has developed draft planning principles that define the important elements to
be considered in Central West Focus Area small area plan. We invite the community to provide their thoughts and
feedback about the principles during this drop-by session!
Community Drop-By Session Details
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013 from 5:30-7:00pm
Where: Meeting Room B, Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill
What: An opportunity for community members to review the draft planning principles, speak with
Steering Committee members, and provide feedback
For more information about the Central West Focus Area process, please visit
www.townofchapelhill.org/centralwest
Have questions? Contact Megan Wooley at 919-969-5059 or [email protected]
Date:
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Meeting Room B, Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill
A public information meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10,
to receive comments and feedback on the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina North
Annual Report to the Town of Chapel Hill. The meeting will be held in
the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Carolina North is envisioned as a mixed-use academic campus on
university-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two
miles north of the main campus. University and Town representatives
signed a development agreement in 2009 that covers the first 20 years of
development on the site. The agreement contains guidelines and
standards for the development of the first 3 million square feet of a
mixed-use research and
academic campus on 133 acres.
The annual report lets the Town and public know what development
activities have occurred on the Carolina North site in the past year and
the ways in which the University is complying with the terms of the
development agreement. The report is part of the structure established
by the agreement for providing continued town-gown communication. The
report will be posted online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth
Town Manager Roger Stancil will review the report and the public
input before reporting on Sept. 24 to the Town Council on his review of
the development agreement and its requirements.
Public input is welcome. Send comments about the annual report or other issues related to Carolina North at any time to
[email protected] or write Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department, Carolina North, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Detailed information is available online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=900 and http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/. To be added to a mailing list to receive regular updates about the Carolina North development agreement, please contact [email protected].
Town of Chapel Hill
contact: Catherine Lazorko, 919-969-5055 or [email protected] or UNC-Chapel Hill contact: Susan Hudson, 919-962-8415, [email protected]
Date:
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall
The Downtown Partnership and Chamber of Commerce were invited last fall to submit their goals for Chapel Hill’s Comprehensive Plan for publication on the Town’s official Chapel Hill 2020 blog. Although we were not personally invited, the editors of OrangePolitics decided to compose our own list of goals and priorities, which we have submitted this morning for publication on the Town website. What's YOUR vision for Chapel Hill's future?
The comprehensive plan is Chapel Hill’s guiding vision. In the past it has been used to guide land use policies and other programs, and in the future it is expected to also directly influence the Town’s budget. It has never been more important to articulate a clear vision of a Chapel Hill in which we all hope to live. As much as we love Chapel Hill, and look back fondly on the days we first came to know this wonderful community, we also accept the fact that more people fall in love with this town every day and growth is an inescapable part of our future. The choice before us now is not whether to grow, but how.
Many general principles are broadly held by most residents in and around Chapel Hill. It’s good to protect the environment, to have a diverse community, to teach our children well. But where we don’t all agree is how best to make these things happen. The Comprehensive Plan needs to address these difficult issues if it is to be of any use in guiding future decisions. The hard discussions about these areas of difference have been notably absent from the 2020 process, but we are ready to have them. To that end, we offer the following suggestions as starting points for real conversations about our future.
In the context of concern about development of neighborhoods proximate to Carolina North, about last night's (3/20) session:
A threat? There's much to be wary of, not the least the strong implication that unless we accept fairly sweeping increases in commercial use and density in the very near future along MLK, Estes, 15-501 and 54, we will bring down the wrath of economic gods on us -- making property values plummet and real estate taxes skyrocket. Of course, the consultants do not use such threatening terminology, and words like "modest" obscure the true extent of alterations in critical neighborhoods.
Lining the corridors? The dice are heavily loaded in favor of thinking first in terms of transportation corridors to serve commercial interests and on that basis planning neighborhood changes to best serve those corridors. This is being framed as if it's the rest of the town saying "leave us alone and just develop along 'major corridors." A politically savvy spin, pitting potential NIMBYs against each other, but there's more going on than that.
Does anyone remember how all those charts and graphs of Carolina North never showed much about what lies outside the campus -- i.e., the rest of the town and county? I remember thinking, "hey, the world doesn't end along the MLK/Airport Rd. median strip!" Town planners seemed much exercised about the general town-wide impact of CN, but there seemed to be a general shrug about the impact on proximate neighborhoods except from the point of view of bus and bicycle lanes.
Yesterday I received a call from a woman who lives in a tent she assembled in the woods east of the railroad tracks near land that Chapel Hill purchased from the estate of Leo Merritt. I have known her for several years and she has been a part of the downtown Carrboro community for a long time. I had mixed emotions about what she had to say. She is moving next month to be with another member of her family in a nearby state. On the one hand, I am happy for her that she will (presumably) have more formal housing arrangements, but on the other hand I will miss seeing her around Carrboro.
On Chapelboro.com:
Posted: Saturday, 14 January 2012 11:05AM
Carolina North Meeting To Provide Development Updates Thursday
CHAPEL HILL - UNC is inviting members of the public to attend a meeting this week to learn about the latest updates on the development of Carolina North.
The event will include the discussion of topics of construction of the utilities duct bank, inclusion of a methane gas pipeline and the design of a greenway. The design of a research building, which will be the first to be built at the site, will also be a focus of the meeting.
UNC staff members will also discuss a proposed modification of conservation areas near the development area.
The meeting will be held on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Magnolia Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive.
Free parking will be available outside the building and the Chapel Hill Transit NU route will provide transportation to and from the site.
Date:
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 5:30pm
Location:
Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive, Chapel Hill
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4729/68/
Date:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 5:15pm
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