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News briefs: 6/28/07

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Staff

Moratorium approved
The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted 4-1 to approve a four-month moratorium on residential development in the Joint Planning Transition Area portion of the Carrboro Northern Study Area.

In February, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved a six-month moratorium in the Northern Study Area, to begin April 26. However, because 2,800 of the 3,800 acres in the Northern Study Area are considered the Joint Planning Transition Area, the moratorium required the approval of the board of commissioners.

Commissioner Alice Gordon voted against the moratorium.

The commissioners voted to impose the moratorium for four months instead of six because the moratorium was initially anticipated to end October 26 and the Carrboro Northern Study Area groups have already started studying the area as planned.

Archaeological dig at justice facility
A kiln at the site of the county justice facility that may date as far back as 1768 is being carefully excavated, county officials announced last week.

The kiln is particularly important because it may be the only one of its kind in Orange County and dates to a particularly early period. Researchers plan to document the features of the site before the remains suffer any damage.

An archaeology research firm hired by the county began excavating a well and a kiln last week at the Orange County Justice Facility on Margaret Lane. Legacy Research Associates Inc. found part of a chimney and a building foundation there last year. The foundation may be the remains of a building referenced in a Hillsborough planning document dating from 1768.

The county plans to save the top bricks of the excavated well to reassemble them into an outdoor memorial at the facility.

Trust fund wins grant
The N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund awarded the Orange County Partnership for Young Children a two-year, $51,300 Fit Communities grant.

The partnership will use the funds to support the Growing Healthy Kids Project, which will develop community gardens in Carrboro at local public schools, a community park and a community church. Children and families will be involved in the design and development of the gardens.

In addition, the gardens will serve as outdoor education classrooms, where children can learn about the natural world and participate in the maintenance of the garden. Parents will be able to attend cooking classes to learn how to prepare healthy meals with produce from the gardens.

For more information about the Healthy Kids Campaign or the Growing Healthy Kids Project, contact Michele Rivest, the partnership’s executive director, or visit the partnership’s website at www.OrangeSmartStart.org.

McKenzie to retire
Kent McKenzie, Orange County’s deputy emergency services director for Emergency Medical Services, has announced that he will leave his position in July.

McKenzie has served as emergency services director since 1998. He leaves Orange County to serve as emergency management coordinator in Lake County, Ill.

McKenzie was instrumental in EMS’s assumption of ambulance transportation from the county’s volunteer rescue squads in 2003. In addition, he has served as the county’s interim emergency management director since November 2006.

According to County Manager Laura Blackmon, the department’s deputy directors Gwen Snowden and Mike Tapp will share emergency services director duties until a new director is appointed.

Rogers Road meeting
The Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task Force held a meeting Monday at the Homestead Community Center.

About 40 people attended, including Orange County commissioners Moses Carey, Barry Jacobs and Valerie Foushee. The task force was formed in April to develop recommendations for enhancing the quality of life in the community and for monitoring the plan’s progress.

The focus of Monday’s meeting was to discuss the definition of “Historic Rogers Road Community” – its physical boundaries, history and heritage. The discussion focused on concerns and priorities for community enhancements. These include finding another site for the transfer station, reducing odors from the landfill, providing traffic-calming bumps on Rogers Road and sidewalks on Homestead and bus service to Rogers Road.

This was the third meeting of the task force with board members present; a residents-only meeting was held on June 19.

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