The first Good Neighbor Plan Advisory Committee meeting for the development of a plan regarding the Inter-Faith Council’s new men’s homeless shelter held its first meeting on Monday, but a representative from A Better Site, a group of neighbors opposed to the project as sited, did not attend.
The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the development site, near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Homestead Road, earlier this year and asked the IFC and others to develop a Good Neighbor Plan for the project. According to A Better Site, the group did not send a representative to the committee meeting because the developer denied their requests to open the meetings to the public and neighbors and follow open meeting law, and because the developer stacked the committee with known project supporters.