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Guest Post by James Carnahan
A Concept Plan for Carolina North, the June 29 presentation by the Village project, will be re-broadcast Monday, August 1, 7 to 9pm on local cable channel 18 in Carrboro & Chapel Hill. This concept plan represents a year-long, unfunded effort by the local non-profit walkable community advocacy group to offer an alternative view of how UNC's Horace Williams property might be developed.
Not meant to be definitive, the presentation is primarily intended to answer the question, "what would Carolina North look like if citizen input were incorporated?" and to encourage the University to utilize a facilitated collaborative process to further develop its plans for the new campus. Key differences are a multi-modal transportation approach making possible greatly reduced parking and dependence on the automobile, 4 times the housing proposed in the Ayers/Saint/Gross plan, and a half-mile long reservoir for holding rainfall harvested from rooftops, that doubles as a outdoor recreation space.
James Carnahan is the Chair of The Village Project.
Perhaps I'm the first back from the packed house at Dock side so I'll get the ball rolling.
What impressed me most was the strong group of progressive activists assembled from Chatham County. These folks are committed to achieving the kind of sustainable land-use planning and economic development strategies that progressive orangepolitics would surely endorse.
Based on last year's election, we can see that real change is coming to Chatham. Allies in Orange should acknowledge their leadership on their own turf (as was the case tonight) and work in solidarity where possible.
Some tidbits:
Wasn't expecting Kevin Foy who apparently carpooled with Bill Strom, Cam Hill, and Mark Chilton. The way my brain works, I noted that they comprised a group of Town Council members elected in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2003 and a mayor to fill in the missing year of 2001 if you count Foy twice. I guess Alderman Chilton counts twice too.
Nearby was a table with Joe Capowski, Terri Buckner, Laurin Easthom, Alex Zaffron, and Mary Rabinowitz. Now there's a fivesome Roy might balk at coaching!
Help protect UNC-TV and WUNC from Bush Administration budget cuts and partisan appointees.
Community Forum on Defending Public Broadcasting.
Thursday, August 4th from 7 – 9:30 p.m.
The United Church of Chapel Hill
1321 Martin Luther King., Jr. Blvd.
(NC-86/Historic Airport Rd.)
*A screening of Bill Moyers' historic address on the threat posed to
public broadcasting by the Bush administration at the National
Conference for Media Reform
*A discussion panel featuring Congressman David Price and Jim Goodmon,
president and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting and national board member of
Common Cause
*Q+A, comments, calls to action.
Event sponsored by the Committee to Defend Public Broadcasting.
Co-sponsors: Common Cause North Carolina, the Independent Weekly,
Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, the People's Channel, Orange County
Democratic Party, Orange County Democratic Women, UNC Young Democrats
For more details or directions, contact Pete MacDowell @ 968-9184
Chapel Hill Herald, Saturday July 23, 2005
Last week, Internationalist Books give this year's Bob Sheldon Award for social justice to Orange County school board member Liz Brown.
I was surprised that Brown was even in the field of vision of the Ibooks volunteers.
After all, these are people known for their engagement with U.S. and international issues, whose concern is with globalization and war, not school budgets and the three Rs. I suspect Brown was not well-known around Ibooks before last week.
Consider the other nominees. Ibooks board member Michal Osterweil said of nominee Vinci Daro "one of the most amazing things about Vinci is that she participates in many of the most important protests internationally and serves as a tremendous resource and thinker for developing effective alternatives here, and yet she is so modest and effective, that often you don't even know how much a project has depended on her work and her inspirational energy."
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