
{"id":1646,"date":"2008-01-10T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/01\/10\/calvander-at-the-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:32:15","slug":"calvander-at-the-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/01\/10\/calvander-at-the-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvander at the crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/calvander1resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/calvander1resized.jpg\" alt=\"How to shape development along the east and west sides of Old N.C. 86 became a subject of debate among a town committee studying plans for the area. Photo by Kirk Ross.\" align=\"left\" height=\"120\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><em><strong>By Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new school is several frenzied months of construction away from opening day, as are new homes in developments recently approved nearby, but the intersection of Homestead Road and Old N.C. 86 at Calvander is already a busy place.<br \/>\nSteady development has made it much more of a crossroads than ever before and now the Talberts on the west side of the intersection isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just hopping at lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, concern about growth in the area led the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to impose a six-month development moratorium and charge a 17-member committee made up of residents, elected officials and town advisory board members with coming up with ideas for how to proceed. The committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name was a mouthful: the Northern Study Area Plan Implementation Review Committee.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At the heart of concern for shaping growth was a recognition that it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be all residential \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that the area will need some commercial services and amenities.<\/p>\n<p>How to do that became the subject of a long-running discussion. But after months discussing ideas, values and how previous plans played out on the ground, the committee could not reach a consensus over how to proceed, and at its December meeting a majority of its members voted to send a compromise plan, along with the work that went into it, to the board of aldermen for review. The board is expected to look over the ideas at its retreat later this month.<br \/>\nWhile there was disagreement as to how to proceed, there was broad consensus that previous attempts to attract mixed-use development had fallen flat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The floating zones never landed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Amy Jeroloman, a committee member and an 18-year resident of the area, said referring to the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy, which encouraged mixed use but didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t set specific sites allowing commercial spaces to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153float\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to where they made sense.<\/p>\n<p>Jeroloman was one of three members of the committee who offered a compromise between members who wanted to see more extensive changes and those who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n<p>She said with the moratorium past, and landowners and developers anxious for guidance so they can proceed on projects, the committee wanted to get some feedback from the board of aldermen.<\/p>\n<p>One key sticking point with the committee was what to do about development on the west side of Old N.C. 86. Jeroloman said there was general agreement about how to plan for the east side of the road, which is currently served by water and sewer, but there was a strong effort to limit growth to the west.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton, a member of the committee, said he was among those advocating to keep the area west of Old 86 as is. Given that the area does not have utilities now, it makes sense, he said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to preserve options for the future\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and concentrate on areas already marked for development and served by utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Chilton said the committee did agree on three areas for mixed use, a site on Homestead Road across from Lake Hogan Farms Road, an area on the corner of Eubanks Road and Old 86 and a small area on the east side of the new Twin Creeks Park.<\/p>\n<p>Planning board chair James Carnahan said he was one of the committee members who disagreed with the approach of just naming a few sites. He advocated allowing for small mixed use to happen in areas along the main transit corridors with the intent to create a New Urban feel.<\/p>\n<p>Carnahan said there are no large parcels in the area to fashion another Southern Village or Meadowmont with homes around a large commercial center and it would be better to encourage small mixed-use projects to fill in along the transit corridors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That way it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more flexible and not dependent on a couple of large developments that we probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see coming along for another five or six years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Chilton said once the board of aldermen reviews the committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work, the board will discuss how to proceed with the report and whether to send it back to the committee or ask the town planning staff to review it and begin work on drafting new development rules for the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer A new school is several frenzied months of construction away from opening day, as are new homes in developments recently approved nearby, but the intersection of Homestead Road and Old N.C. 86 at Calvander is already a busy place. 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