Planning & Transportation
This arrived in the last hour from Triangle Transit staff. Interesting timing for the Commissioners' meeting!
The Regional Transportation Alliance is out with its spring 2012 survey of potential voters in Orange and Wake counties on transit improvements.
In a nutshell:
Nearly 60% of Orange County voters support a sales tax for transit; this year the number of respondents in Orange opposing the measure fell to its lowest level ever
In Wake, numbers remain above 50%; support has dropped slightly since 2010; 70% of those questioned say they believe they would benefit from improved transit whether or not they use it.
A link to the news release and all crosstabs from this year and past polling periods can be found here:
http://www.letsgetmoving.org/priorities/transit#poll/
The 2012 news release is here:
Item 7c on the Orange Couny Commissioners agrenda for Tuesday 5/14 7 pm (Southern Human Services Center):
c.
Orange County Transit Plan and Related
Agreements
The Board
will consider adoption of the Orange County Transit Plan and consider approval
of the Durham/Orange Cost Share Agreement, the Orange County/Triangle Transit
Implementing Agreement and the Do Not Levy Agreement and authorize the Chair to
sign if approved.
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/1205157c.pdf
42 pages of detail for you to peruse. If approved, then a public hearing and vote June 5 on the actual referendum call for November
Go Chapel Hill - Carrboro presents the Annual Spring Roll Cruiser Ride.
Cyclists are invited to meet at the Wallace Deck, 150 E. Rosemary St.,
at 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 18, for the annual cruiser ride. This no cost
event is open to families (2 miles) as well as cruisers (8 miles) to
enjoy the spring weather and help promote riding a bike for work,
errands and play. There is no registration fee. William Dawson's Band
will kick off the evening along with contests, fun and food! Bring your
bike, dress it up for the Most Outrageous Bike Contest and wear your
most fun cycling clothes!!!
Come and learn how to load your bike onto transit buses from 8:30
a.m. to noon Saturday, May 19, at the Farmer's Market at University
Mall, 120 S. Estes Drive. Enjoy this no cost workshop, get
your name in the hat for a drawing and enjoy a quick tour of a Chapel
Hill Transit Bus! If you can't bring a bike, come by anyway. a bike will
be provided to show you the technique.
For more information on these events call 919-969-5065.
Date:
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
Wallace Deck, 150 E. Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill
There will be a Public Information Meeting on the Chapel Hill 2020
Comprehensive Plan starting at noon, Monday, May 14th, in the Council
Chamber of Chapel Hill Town Hall.
Chapel Hill 2020: Our Town, Our Vision.
The community and the Council have asked for a new Comprehensive
Plan to reexamine the vision for Chapel Hill and to plan together for
our community's future. The new planning and visioning document will
create a framework for the community to guide the Town Council in
managing Chapel Hill's future over the next 20 years.
Chapel Hill 2020 is a plan that involves Chapel Hill, every
community, every race, every age, every culture, every corner. What is
in Chapel Hill 2020 will
directly affect you -- your values, your ambitions, your family, your
future. You have made Chapel Hill your town, and we want to hear from
you.
Help create a new Comprehensive Plan at www.townofchapelhill.org/2020.
Questions: compplan@townofchapelhill.org or 919-968-2728
Date:
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall
A public information meeting on the Carolina North Development Agreement will be held at 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday, May 22, in the Council Chambers of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
A development agreement for UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina North Campus
was approved in June 2009. It contains guidelines and standards for the
development of the first 3 million square feet of a mixed-use research
and academic campus on 133 acres. Planning for the first project, the
Collaborative Science Building is under way. The early development at
Carolina North will be accessed from Estes Drive Extension and a
re-aligned Airport Drive.
The agreement also contains guidelines for the rest of the property that will not be developed in the near future.
The development agreement requires that the Town and University do a
periodic assessment of the overall effectiveness of the development
agreement. This first assessment must be completed
within three years of the agreement, which is June 30, 2012. Town and
University staff have prepared the assessment, and it is available at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Town Manager Roger L. Stancil will review the assessment and public
input before reporting to the Town Council on his review of the
development agreement and its requirements.
Public input is welcome. Comments also may be made at the May 22 meeting or emailed to carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org. Detailed information is available online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=900 and http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/. To be added to a mailing list to receive regular updates about the Carolina North development agreement, please contact info@townofchapelhill.org.
Date:
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall
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