Growth & Development
Orange County is about to complete Phase 1 of its Comprehensive Plan Update. At 7:00 pm on Tuesday, August 7 there will be a Public Information Meeting at New Hope Elementary School (click for Google Map) hosted by Orange County Planning staff. The meeting is intended to explain the purpose of and process for the Update, as well as receive feedback regarding the County's Draft Goals (PDF) that will be presented at a Public Hearing on August 27th. For the latest official information about the Orange County Comprehensive Plan Update you can visit the Orange County planning department.
The WITT (Walk in Tributary Theatre) is located in Carrboro's historic community pool, 'Sparrow's Pool.' For the past year, as part of a federation of projects at the Carrboro Greenspace, the WITT has served as a space to show informative movies, information exchange being essential to a healthy democracy. This last remaining greenspace in the heart of Carrboro is being prepared for sale and perhaps development. We are losing access to the property after August 5th. Please come and experience for the last time(!?) THE WITT and what the Carrboro Greenspace could be if we save it!..
Oops, almost forgot to remind y'all, the last community info session on Carolina North is at 4 pm today! Also, the plans reviewed by the BOT last week have been posted online.
Dear Friends and Neighbors:
Continuing our community sessions on Carolina North, we will meet on Tuesday, July 31 at 4:00 p.m. in room 2603 at the School of Government at the intersection of South and Country Club Roads, opposite the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Parking is available at either the NC 54 Visitors Lot or the Rams Head deck on Ridge Road. Parking may also be available at the parking meters along South Road. Information on transit service to the School of Government is below.
Earlier today, a draft concept plan was presented to the university's Board of Trustees. It showed both a possible 50-year development footprint as well as a possible scenario for the first 15 years. You can view the Power Point that was presented at http://research.unc.edu/cn/BOT_presentation.pdf. At the meeting on July 31, we will present this plan to the community for your comments and feedback.
Update: This meeting is not open to the public. Apologies for the error.
This afternoon, UNC is hosting an informational meeting about Carolina Commons at 3:30 pm. This is a development on Homestead Road with a number of housing units for UNC faculty. This proposed development will go through Carrboro's review process. I urge anyone interested in the Carolina North development to attend.
Carolina Commons is an attempt to provide housing close to the University so faculty won't have to drive so far. I'm encouraged that they're at least starting to address the widespread concern about future traffic and congestion problems. It's only a start though - there will be lots of University staff and workers at CN that won't live in this new development.
Meeting location – the Global Cup Cafe in the new Fed Ex Global Education Center. The Center is located on the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley St. in Chapel Hill. It is next door to the School of Social Work and behind the Pharmacy School. Directions below.
Chancellor James Moeser described some of UNC's vision in a Sept 2005 posting on UNC's Community pages:
Cam Hill asked me to post his guest column in the Herald today about Carolina North:
For several years UNC has been talking about developing
a research campus, Carolina North, which is slated to contain as many
as eight million square feet of buildings. UNC owns the Horace Williams
tract, some 900 acres that currently is the home of the Horace Williams
Airport, a couple of toxic dump sites and the old town of Chapel Hill
public works and transit facility locations. UNC wants to put Carolina
North there. Because the property is largely undeveloped (with the
above exceptions), surrounded by existing neighborhoods and not served
by any existing (or planned) transit or large-scale utility
infrastructure, and because this is Chapel Hill; there has been some
considerable discussion about this. Oh yeah, and the airport is still
open.
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