Carolina North Public Information Meeting

From UNC Press Release:

Staff members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will update local residents, faculty, staff and students on activities at Carolina North at a public information meeting June 27.

The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. 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.

Carolina North is being developed as a mixed-use academic campus on University-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two miles north of the main campus. Most of the planned construction for Carolina North will take place on or near the site of the Horace Williams Airport.

Topics for the June 27 meeting will include updates on the construction of a utilities ductbank, installation of a landfill gas pipeline and generator, and designs of a greenway, the Collaborative Science Building and related infrastructure.

UNC staff will also discuss an upcoming remediation study, to be done with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, of the former municipal landfill on the site. The study, the landfill remediation and a change in the route for the greenway will require additional minor tree cutting on the site, which will also be discussed.

Another topic will be the approved modified conservation areas, the survey and marking of their boundaries and the search for a third-party monitor to ensure adherence to the conservation areas' restrictive covenants.

Staff members will also review the recently completed periodic assessment of the Carolina North Development Agreement, the July 2009 contract between the University and the Town of Chapel Hill that covers the first 20 years of development of Carolina North. Town and University staff prepared this first assessment, and it is available at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth

Website: http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/ 

News Services contact: Susan Hudson, (919) 962-8415, susan_hudson@unc.edu

 

Date: 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building,103 Airport Drive

Anti-Racism workshop

Date: 

Friday, July 6, 2012 - 8:30am to Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 5:15pm

Location: 

United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Chapel Hill 2020 Public Information Session

A public information meeting to discuss the Chapel Hill 2020 Draft Comprehensive Plan will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The Planning Board will meet directly following the Chapel Hill 2020 meeting.

The purpose of the public information session is to share information about how the draft plan is being revised to reflect community comment and the Planning Board's recommended revisions (http://bit.ly/MIuTDc).

The visioning plan will be considered for possible adoption by the Town Council on June 25. For those unable to attend Tuesday's meeting, it will be aired on Chapel Hill TV-18 and provided later on streaming video at www.townofchapelhill.org/councilvideo.

The 2020 plan will be an overall policy document, balancing the many voices and ideas about our community's future. Previous drafts of the plan are available at www.2020buzz.org. This document, the vision and framework for the Town's future, will be followed by implementation - making the vision into reality.

Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and the Town Council have thanked all dedicated participants for their ideas, work and involvement in the CH 2020 Plan. View the documentary video of the process - http://vimeo.com/43250910 

The Chapel Hill 2020 process began with brainstorming and visioning. The first community meeting was held in September 2011 at East Chapel Hill High School and drew 475 people, people who wanted to have a stake in the future of Chapel Hill. Eventually, the community identified six theme groups, and the stakeholders got to work. The theme groups are Good Place and New Spaces, Town and Gown, Getting Around, Community Prosperity and Engagement, A Place for Everyone and Nurturing Our Community.

Chapel Hill 2020 has about 20 dedicated theme group co-chairs, who have attended countless community meetings, provided thoughtful input, and moderated energetic group discussions. They are Dave Godschalk, Paige Zinn, Rick Igou, Chris Derby, Brian Russell, Roger Waldon, Anita Badrock, Brian Curran, Maria Palmer, Jan Bolick, Marlene Rifkin, Gary Saleeby, Fred Black, Nathan Huening, Eleanor Murray, Delores Bailey, Kristen Hiemstra and Jonathan Howes. Read more about them: http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1825 

Throughout the process, the Chapel Hill 2020 outreach team visited with all segments of the community and bringing their ideas, comments, needs and inspirations back to the ongoing process. These community comments were folded into the process to create the plan.

For more information about Chapel Hill 2020, visit www.chapelhill2020.org or www.2020buzz.org or contact compplan@townofchapelhill.org

Date: 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Go Chapel Hill - Carrboro Annual Spring Roll Cruiser Ride

Go Chapel Hill - Carrboro presents the Annual Spring Roll Cruiser Ride. Cyclists are invited to meet at the Wallace Deck, 150 E. Rosemary St., at 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 18, for the annual cruiser ride. This no cost event is open to families (2 miles) as well as cruisers (8 miles) to enjoy the spring weather and help promote riding a bike for work, errands and play. There is no registration fee. William Dawson's Band will kick off the evening along with contests, fun and food! Bring your bike, dress it up for the Most Outrageous Bike Contest and wear your most fun cycling clothes!!!

Come and learn how to load your bike onto transit buses from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 19, at the Farmer's Market at University Mall, 120 S. Estes Drive. Enjoy this no cost workshop, get your name in the hat for a drawing and enjoy a quick tour of a Chapel Hill Transit Bus! If you can't bring a bike, come by anyway. a bike will be provided to show you the technique.

For more information on these events call 919-969-5065.

Date: 

Friday, May 18, 2012 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Wallace Deck, 150 E. Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill

Public Information Meeting - Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan

There will be a Public Information Meeting on the Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan starting at noon, Monday, May 14th, in the Council Chamber of Chapel Hill Town Hall.

Chapel Hill 2020: Our Town, Our Vision.

The community and the Council have asked for a new Comprehensive Plan to reexamine the vision for Chapel Hill and to plan together for our community's future. The new planning and visioning document will create a framework for the community to guide the Town Council in managing Chapel Hill's future over the next 20 years.

Chapel Hill 2020 is a plan that involves Chapel Hill, every community, every race, every age, every culture, every corner. What is in Chapel Hill 2020 will directly affect you -- your values, your ambitions, your family, your future. You have made Chapel Hill your town, and we want to hear from you.

Help create a new Comprehensive Plan at www.townofchapelhill.org/2020.

Questions: compplan@townofchapelhill.org or 919-968-2728

Date: 

Monday, May 14, 2012 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall

Public Information Meeting on Carolina North Development Agreement

A public information meeting on the Carolina North Development Agreement will be held at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, in the Council Chambers of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

A development agreement for UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina North Campus was approved in June 2009. It 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. Planning for the first project, the Collaborative Science Building is under way. The early development at Carolina North will be accessed from Estes Drive Extension and a re-aligned Airport Drive.

The agreement also contains guidelines for the rest of the property that will not be developed in the near future.

The development agreement requires that the Town and University do a periodic assessment of the overall effectiveness of the development agreement. This first assessment must be completed within three years of the agreement, which is June 30, 2012. Town and University staff have prepared the assessment, and it is available at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth

Town Manager Roger L. Stancil will review the assessment and public input before reporting to the Town Council on his review of the development agreement and its requirements.

Public input is welcome. Comments also may be made at the May 22 meeting or emailed to carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org. 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 info@townofchapelhill.org.

Date: 

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall

Voices of Action Event at Chapel Hill Public Library

A free and public event exploring civic engagement and social justice issues is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Chapel Hill Public Library's Program Space in University Mall across from Alfredo's Pizza. Please share the EVENT FLIER.

"Voices of Action: Translating Words into a Movement" is organized by the Chapel Hill Public Library and the Town of Chapel Hill Justice in Action Committee. The public is invited to attend and participate in an interactive workshop and discussion to consider questions such as "What makes you want to act?" "How do you engage?" and "How can your voice be powerful?" The purpose of this event is to encourage creative expression of opinion and support participants as they recognize the power of words and find their individual voices.

The event will be facilitated by the Sacrificial Poets (http://sacrificialpoets.com), North Carolina's premier youth poetry organization. You don't have to be a poet or even write poetry to attend. If you appreciate spoken word, want to learn more, or you just have something to say about social justice, LGBT rights, Occupy, racism, fracking, environmentalism, immigration reform, or a host of other issues, this program is for you.

"We are excited to be involved because librarians are advocates of intellectual freedom," said Maggie Hite, head of circulation services. "And our library is a trusted, safe space for civic engagement."

Many residents are more comfortable expressing divergent ideas at libraries because they are neutral places that advance knowledge through freedom of expression and critical inquiry, Hite said. The Chapel Hill Public Library supports the idea that civic reflection builds community connections.

Formed by the Town Council, the role of the Justice in Action Committee is to give voice to issues and concerns regarding race and power in Chapel Hill and the surrounding community; and to educate the Chapel Hill community through workshops and seminars on issues of racism, diversity and inclusiveness. The committee meets at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of most months at Chapel Hill Town Hall. For more information, contact samathryn@gmail.com. For more information about Sunday's program, see www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org or contact mhite@townofchapelhill.org.

Date: 

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Chapel Hill Public Library's Program Space, University Mall

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