CH2020
Agenda includes discussion of:
- Draft Stormwater Language
- Draft Street Character Language and Matrix
- Draft Vision Language
- Draft Recommendations
This should be a great opportunity to see the
vocal minority in action.
Date:
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Training Room at the Transit Building, 6900 Millhouse Road, Chapel Hill
Via e-mail:
Join the Central West Steering Committee and your fellow community members at the upcoming Central West Community Session!
The Central West Community Session will be held on Tuesday, September 10th from 6:30-8:30pm in the Fellowship Hall at Amity United Methodist Church located at 825 N. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill.
The drop-in session will provide community members the opportunity to review the Steering Committee’s work to date (including the principles, objectives, and concepts) and to offer their thoughts and feedback.
Help spread the word about the Community Session to your friends, neighbors, and colleagues! Attached to this email are flyers that can be distributed about the session.
For more information about the Central West Focus Area process, please visit www.townofchapelhill.org/centralwest
Hope to see you there!
Megan
Date:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location:
Amity United Methodist Church, 825 N. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill
Yesterday at noon, Chapel Hill's Economic Development Officer
Dwight Bassett provided a brief, one-hour presentation outlining some
key facts and developments concerning retail, housing, and office space
in Chapel Hill. The full presentation can be viewed here.
I attended and live-tweeted the meeting. You can see the play-by-play below.
During their April 29, 2013 work session, Chapel Hill Town Council continued to discuss and refine a process plan and schedule for Obey Creek and S15-501.
The process consists of two phases – an Exploratory phase during which a team of consultants will facilitate a planning process and, if the resulting project plan is deemed appropriate for a Development Agreement, a Negotiation and Implementation phase will follow.
Focus during the council work session was on a fleshed out plan for the Exploratory Phase which is the product of a collaborative effort between town staff, East West Partners and two community members.
The new plan calls for a six to nine month public engagement process that includes many opportunities for public engagement. However, the plan provides no formalized mechanism for citizen inclusion in decision-making or process leadership.
Central West Focus Area Community Drop-By Session
Share your thoughts about the draft Central West Planning Principles!
All are welcome to attend, and please invite your friends and neighbors!
The Central West Steering Committee has developed draft planning principles that define the important elements to
be considered in Central West Focus Area small area plan. We invite the community to provide their thoughts and
feedback about the principles during this drop-by session!
Community Drop-By Session Details
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013 from 5:30-7:00pm
Where: Meeting Room B, Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill
What: An opportunity for community members to review the draft planning principles, speak with
Steering Committee members, and provide feedback
For more information about the Central West Focus Area process, please visit
www.townofchapelhill.org/centralwest
Have questions? Contact Megan Wooley at 919-969-5059 or [email protected]
Date:
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Meeting Room B, Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill
I attended the "Special Topic: Making Transportation Decisions at a Local Level" presentation a smaller section of the larger "Sketching Chapel Hill" Series, and I thought that I'd share some details that were discussed by Martin/Alexiou/Bryson Consulting. The firm presented a 50 minute PowerPoint concerning both the CTP for the greater area, the Long Range Plan and the shorter 7 Year Transportation Plans for the area, followed by Q&A. Also, on the consulting firm's website, there are some interesting bike lane sharing plans for NCSU that are pretty cool to check out.
In the most likely scenario that Charterwood will be approved tonight, Chapel Hill citizens may choose to make some conclusions about the future of citizen input into how OUR town grows.
Despite significant environmental impact (not only to Eastwood Lake and Lake Ellen but to the Booker Creek headwater streams and the old growth trees), the disregard for neighborhood protection, the bastardization of process, the economic shakiness of the proposed plan, the reversal of affordable housing goals, the widespread public objections, the applicant’s frequent “misstatements,” and the precedent setting nature of the approval, Charterwood is virtually assured of passage.
What does this presage for the 2020 Future Focus Areas? Will citizens, once again, be involved in busy work? Will their work, like the work of citizens involved in the original Southern Small Area Plan, the Northern Area Task Force, and 2020 be ignored?
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