
{"id":16675,"date":"2011-03-17T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:06:05","slug":"the-wrong-site-for-a-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/17\/the-wrong-site-for-a-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong site for a library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathy Ellis Gunn<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOrange County has petitioned the Town of Carrboro to change the zoning on a parcel of land in Carrboro from residential to fringe commercial so it may be purchased as a future library site. As someone who lives on property adjacent to the land in question, I feel the need to question the choice of this site. <\/p>\n<p>The type of conditional zoning district that Orange County intends is described as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transitional district designed to accommodate commercial uses in areas that were formerly residential but that may be more desirable for commercial activities due to high traffic volumes and proximity to other non residential districts.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Formerly residential? With the exception of Carrboro Elementary School, all of the adjoining property is owned by the people who reside there. There are no other commercial properties on Hillsborough Road Anyone who has walked or biked down our street will see that this area is definitely not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more desirable for commercial activities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nor does it currently have high traffic volumes. <\/p>\n<p>Also in its petition, Orange County states that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the County has a limited window of opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is insufficient time available to complete all required submittal components necessary for the Conditional Use Permit Process &#8230; and adhere to our time limitations on making a formal decision.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Since Carrboro has waited for more than 20 years to have its own freestanding library, why the sudden urgency to purchase this particular residential property? Especially since they state in their petition that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the county does not intend to break ground on this project in the foreseeable future.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nWhat gives? Maybe Orange County should wait for more suitable properties, ones that are located in areas that are already zoned commercial? <\/p>\n<p>I have heard the comment that resistance to this rezoning is a classic case of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not in my backyard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree more. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not have the library in anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back yard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have it in downtown Carrboro, where it can enhance our business district, in the center of our community.<\/p>\n<p>I urge all concerned citizens take a walk down Hillsborough Road and then to attend the upcoming public hearing to discuss these issues on March 22 at 7:30 at Carrboro Town Hall. The site proposed by Orange County is ill suited for our long-awaited library.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nKathy Ellis Gunn is a Carrboro resident. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County has petitioned the Town of Carrboro to change the zoning on a parcel of land in Carrboro from residential to fringe commercial so it may be purchased as a future library site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16748,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions\/16748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}