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Board discusses long-range plans

Posted on January 21, 2010January 21, 2010 by Staff

By Beth Mechum
Staff Writer

The Board of Aldermen met at Town Hall Tuesday night to further discuss a long-range water-supply plan and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2035 Long Range Transit Plan.

Both plans had been presented to the board last year and the aldermen had resolved to meet again to parse out some of the details.

For the OWASA draft long-range water-supply plan, the board had previously taken issue with a sentence that read, “It is more cost-effective to reduce the drawdown of OWASA’S reservoirs by purchasing available water than by implementing water use restrictions.”

Board members were opposed to this option because they thought it implied OWASA customers would not be notified of a crisis and therefore could not take possible conservation measures.

“The public is being fooled into thinking their water usage is sustainable when it is not,” Aldermen Randee Haven-O’Donnell said.

Carrboro representatives from OWASA were on hand to further clarify the matter.

Secretary of the OWASA executive board Braxton Foushee urged the aldermen to look back to the drought of 2007 when residents were kept apprised of water levels and ways to conserve. He said that will again be done if necessary.

“Our actions spoke volumes,” he said.

The issue, Foushee said, was in the particular language of the draft, and he said he’s receptive to the board of aldermen finding the wording that will hold OWASA to be as transparent as the aldermen want it to be.

The board also received updates to the 2035 Long Range Transit Plan. These updates include recommendations that the plan include language to evaluate the use of existing rail corridor for light rail, that a lane reduction be implemented on Martin Luther King Boulevard to convert the two outer lanes to bus-and-bike-only lanes and that the board of aldermen support a lighted bicycle and pedestrian commute route from the UNC main campus through Carrboro.

The board also received a presentation on criminalizing wage theft in Carrboro and referred the matter to town staff to learn more about the legalities of such an issue.

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