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
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
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 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
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
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
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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