There were two articles in the CHH today on the services and improvements that the historic Rogers Road neighborhood has long been lacking.
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/
For the Historic Rogers Road neighborhood it appears that the neighborhood's role as the garbage receptacle for Orange County may be coming to an end. However vigilance is still required because it ain't quite over yet.
The long sought after services and neighborhood improvements are not anywhere in sight. Over the decades there has been no lack of talk, task forces, official pronouncements of support, planning committees, lists etc... Almost nothing concrete has ever come of all this.
The neighborhood is split into multiple jurisdictions complicating any chance of real progress and offering ready made excuses to all the jurisdictions for failure to act. As with most other things it also boils down to money and with the current economic environment it gets even more difficult.
Why can't the Carrboro BOA just de-annex their portion of Rogers Road ending Carrboro's taxation of residents for which they offer no services other than garbage pickup which they then gets dumped right back into the neighborhood?
What will it take for real progress to be made or will this blog entry be applicable a decade from now?
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