Planning & Transportation
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
Read OP's live coverage of Tuesday's meeting of the county commissioners.
from the DCHC MPO website. The outline below does not state the date for the county commissioners vote, but it is expected to take place June 5. Approval of the bus and rail plan by the MPO is a prerequisite to holding the referencum
http://dchcmpo.com/
Last night, the County Commissioners did a pretty good job of displaying why it has been so easy, maybe even necessary, for the County Manager to be such a policy leader. Fortunately, I did see Barry Jacobs really step up and push the board forward on transit. I think he'll be even more effective when joined by 2 or 3 new allies after the general election.
Big items on the agenda included delaying property revaluation, reappointing the defunct Economic Development Commission, and approving a long-awaited transit plan. They managed to do all three, but not without some kicking and screaming. See my live tweetage and other responses on Storify and below.
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