Carolina North
Created by the central west steering committee and adopted in November of last year by the town council, the plan deals with the MLK-Estes intersection and surrounding areas in anticipation of upcoming changes, including the eventual development of Carolina North and the potential end of the airport hazard zone. Having attended some of the meetings and being connected to the area I appreciate the work that was done by the steering committee on this project.
As of now the plan can be seen on the town website in the 2020 section.
A public information meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, to receive comments and feedback on the 2013 Carolina North Development Agreement Annual Report to the Town of Chapel Hill.
The Town meeting will be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of ongoing renovations to Town Council Chamber. The meeting will be held in the Magnolia Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive. Free parking is available, and Chapel Hill Transit serves the building via the NU route.
The report is posted at http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/, which also is where the public can access the Carolina North conservation areas baseline and initial monitoring reports done by a third-party monitor, the Triangle Land Conservancy.
Carolina North is envisioned as a mixed-use academic campus on university-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two miles north of the main campus. University and Town representatives signed a development agreement in 2009 that covers the first 20 years of development on the site. The agreement 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.
The annual report lets the Town and public know what development activities have occurred on the Carolina North site in the past year and the ways in which the University is complying with the terms of the development agreement. The report is part of the structure established by the agreement for providing continued town-gown communication. The report will also be posted online at http://www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Town Manager Roger Stancil will review the report and the public input before reporting on Oct. 28 to the Town Council on his review of the development agreement and its requirements.
Public input is welcome. Send comments about the annual report or other issues related to Carolina North at any time to carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org or write Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department, Carolina North, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
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:
Monday, September 16, 2013 - 5:30pm
Location:
Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building, 103 Airport Drive
From UNC Press Release:
Staff members at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill will update local residents, faculty,
staff and students on activities at Carolina North at a public
information meeting June 27.
The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Magnolia
Conference Room of the Giles F. Horney Building at 103 Airport Drive.
Free parking is available, and Chapel Hill Transit serves the building
via the NU route.
Carolina North is being developed as a mixed-use academic campus on
University-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, two
miles north of the main campus. Most of the planned construction for
Carolina North will take place on or near the site of the Horace
Williams Airport.
Topics for the June 27 meeting will include updates on the
construction of a utilities ductbank, installation of a landfill gas
pipeline and generator, and
designs of a greenway, the Collaborative Science Building and related
infrastructure.
UNC staff will also discuss an upcoming remediation study, to be
done with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, of
the former municipal landfill on the site. The study, the landfill
remediation and a change in the route for the greenway will require
additional minor tree cutting on the site, which will also be discussed.
Another topic will be the approved modified conservation areas, the
survey and marking of their boundaries and the search for a third-party
monitor to ensure adherence to the conservation areas' restrictive
covenants.
Staff members will also review the recently completed periodic
assessment of the Carolina North Development Agreement, the July 2009
contract between the University and the Town of Chapel
Hill that covers the first 20 years of development of Carolina North.
Town and University staff prepared this first assessment, and it is
available at www.townofchapelhill.org/carolinanorth.
Website: http://carolinanorth.unc.edu/
News Services contact: Susan Hudson, (919) 962-8415, susan_hudson@unc.edu
Date:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Magnolia Conference Room, Giles F. Horney Building,103 Airport Drive
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
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4729/68/
Date:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 5:15pm
Wonder if anyone who has had an opinion about the CH library expansion saw the Signe Wilkinson cartoon (from the Phila. Daily News) in today's (11/21) ink-and-paper N&O. [I can't provide a link because the N&O isn't allowed to reproduce it on their website and, apparently, the Phila. Daily News hasn't yet uploaded it.] Here is link: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/Signe_on_the_economy.html?index=8#photo
It shows buildings labeled "A.I.G." "Banks," "Car Companies," and "Cities" failing over like dominoes, and all about to pile up on a library - a dialogue balloon over it saying "Do you have a book about the impact of the economic crisis?"
Before I elaborate on my mea culpa, let me assure the gentile reader I have not wavered one iota in my opposition to this ill conceived airport idea. In fact I am more dedicated than ever :)
I had the opportunity to exchange emails with House Speaker Hackney on the subject of my claim that S1925 bypasses county zoning ordinances. Speaker Hackney asserted that S1925 did not circumvent zoning and that he had put specific language into the bill that prevented Orange county zoning from being bypassed. I told him was not a lawyer, but I still had concerns.
Speaker Hackney pointed to this specific language in S1925:
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