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Rogers Road petition to be presented

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Staff

By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer

At its quarterly meeting tonight (Thursday), the Orange County Assembly of Governments will receive a petition from residents of the Rogers-Eubanks roads community calling on the Chapel Hill Town Council to pass a resolution to provide water and sewer connections to all residences in the community. The Assembly of Governments is comprised of the county commissioners and the town boards of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.

“For over 35 years,” the petition reads, “Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) residents have awaited public services improvements and basic amenities (including, but not limited to regulated, public water and sanitary sewer service).”

The petition states that in 2002, the Chapel Hill Town Council adopted a resolution to develop a small area plan task force to explore the impacts of providing more comprehensive public services to the Rogers-Eubanks community, specifically to the Rogers and Purefoy roads area.

It further states that while previous requests to address the needs of the community had “largely come to naught,” with the establishment of the task force “hopes were high that this time” these needs would be addressed.

Rather, the petition states, “an all too familiar pattern has apparently set in,” with “no action by the Council or coordination with Carrboro, Orange County, and OWASA to develop and implement a timeline for providing OWASA water and sewer connections to all of those residences in the Rogers-Eubanks community presently without functioning connections.”

RENA, along with the Coalition to End Environmental Racism, also will present a recommended resolution by which the Chapel Hill Town Council would agree to develop such a timeline within 30 days of passing the resolution.

The Assembly of Governments meeting is at 7 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures, 200 S. Elliott Road in Chapel Hill.

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