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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 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.
Chapel Hill's Second Annual Earth Action Day Celebration, presented on location at UNC's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.A free event for the whole family, Earth Action Day will provide a fun-filled afternoon of
learning more about our planet and the human relationship with the environment through demonstrations,
performances, and activities by and for all ages.
For more information see our Earth Action Day pages.
Date:
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
UNC's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
From the County:
The 11th Annual Orange County Agricultural Summit will be held on Monday, February 9, 2009 starting at 8:30 a.m. until lunch. The summit will be held at the old Orange Enterprise building, 500 Valley Forge Road in Hillsborough.
This year the featured speaker will be Steve Troxler, the Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of North Carolina. In addition, topics of discussion will include, youth in agriculture, farm diversification, government programs that assist farmers in energy conservation and how to enhance farm income with hunting leases.
Lunch will be served using locally grown agricultural products as part of the $5 registration fee. Seating is limited, please respond no later than February 5, 2009.
To register and for additional information contact the North Carolina Cooperative Extension - Orange County Center at (919) 245-2050.
Date:
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 3:30am
Location:
Orange Enterprise building, 500 Valley Forge Road, Hillsborough
Over on the
Carrboro bike/ped thread I
inadvertently hijacked it by bringing up a topic that was loosely related. (Sorry Rickie!) So lets move it over here.
To prevent global disaster we need to look in own our backyards for change. One good way to do this is by examining how we use and generate electricity. Should the University of North Carolina continue to generate electricity by burning coal? Is a "cleaner" solution to electricity generation doing enough? Can we really have a Al Gore hater running a power plant in Chapel Hill? (That last one was a joke folks. Ok I thought it was funny. Sheesh.)
Sadly global climate change is no joke.
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