Planning & Transportation
The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership is ramping up YOUR involvement in the Chapel Hill downtown with the "Dream Up Downtown Walks." These walks are moving conversations to explore and engage in our downtown. The walks are on the first Thursday of September, October, November and December, beginning at 6 pm at the University Baptist Church Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin Street and Columbia Street.
On Wednesday, September 19th, the community will be gathering to
discuss the Steering Committee structure, purpose, and application
process for the MLK/Estes Drive Focus Area (recommended name: Central
West Focus Area). This meeting will be held from 5:00-6:30pm in the HR
Training Room, second floor, Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd., Chapel Hill.
In order to prepare for Wednesday’s meeting, a survey has been
developed with the purpose of collecting information in advance of the
meeting. Please complete this survey and provide us with your thoughts!
The survey can be found at the following link: Steering Committee Survey
The information from this survey will be compiled and will be a part
of the discussion during the Wednesday, September 19th Recommendation
Meeting #2.
Please complete the survey by noon on Wednesday, September 19th. The
responses from the survey will be published on this blog by Friday,
September 21st.
For more information about this process, please visit www.townofchapelhill.org/estesdrive
Date:
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
HR Training Room, second floor, Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill
The Town of Chapel Hill invites the community to participate in information sessions about zoning opportunities
for the Ephesus Church Road-Fordham Boulevard area.
To reach as many residents as possible, meetings with identical
presentations will be held on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. in
the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and
from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Family, 200 Hayes Road.
Current community discussions about the Ephesus Church Road-Fordham
Boulevard area are being initiated by the Town of Chapel Hill as part of
its work to implement the Chapel Hill 2020 comprehensive plan. In a
collaborative community process, residents and Town staff will identify
appropriate form and zoning regulations in and near Ephesus Church Road
and Fordham Boulevard. Technical assistance with the focus area
initiative will be provided through a $20,000 grant to the Town from the
Mayors Innovation Project.
At the Sept. 20 meeting, the Mayors Innovation Project consultant
team, comprising Scott Bernstein of the Center for Neighborhood
Technology and Hazel Boyrs of PlaceMakers, will present information
about zoning opportunities for the area. All community members are
invited to participate in the process and share their ideas. It is
anticipated that the consultant team will return to Chapel Hill to
present their initial recommendations for community consideration.
The 123-acre area surrounding the intersection of Ephesus Church
Road and Fordham Boulevard was the subject of an earlier study adopted
by the Town Council on Feb. 28, 2011. The Ephesus Church Road-Fordham
Boulevard Small Area Plan, led by the Town's Economic Development
Division, defines land future land uses and offers solutions to the
transportation network to encourage reinvestment.
The focus area is located near the intersection of Ephesus Church
Road and Fordham Boulevard and extends from South Elliott Road to north
of Ram's Plaza. It was one of six areas included in Future Focus
community discussions that took place in spring 2012 during the
development of the Chapel Hill 2020 comprehensive plan. The plan focused
on areas most likely to change in the future due to vacant land,
underdeveloped sites, and their location along transportation and
transit corridors.
Questions and ideas are welcome. For those unable to attend the
information session, there will be opportunities for future involvement.
To be added to the email distribution list for the Ephesus Church
Road-Fordham Boulevard Focus Area, contact compplan@townofchapelhill.org or 919-968-2728. To find more information, visit www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1656
Date:
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Church of the Holy Family, 200 Hayes Road
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