
{"id":16710,"date":"2011-03-17T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16710"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:55:39","slug":"council-to-move-forward-with-community-house-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/17\/council-to-move-forward-with-community-house-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Council to move forward with Community House review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill Town Council on Monday decided to delay finalizing proposed guidelines for a homeless shelter until after it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completed a review of the proposed IFC Community House near the intersection of Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of neighborhoods near the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service project argued for pursuing guidelines and said they wanted to see tough standards about proximity to parks, ABC stores, day-care facilities and other public places.<\/p>\n<p>Tim CoyneSmith disagreed with delaying the standards until after the IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special-use permit application had been reviewed. He said the decision overlooked the opportunity to utilize community input and work of citizens in developing the guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>IFC executive director Chris Moran said the organization is in agreement with the guidelines and would likely implement most of them regardless of the timing.<\/p>\n<p>The council voted 6-2 in favor of the delay, with council members Matt Czajkowski and Laurin Easthom voting against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Czajkowski said he was particularly worried about a shelter being close to a park. The town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Homestead Park is near the IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed site.<\/p>\n<p>Council member Donna Bell advocated for moving forward without adopting the guidelines, saying the town was effectively developing guidelines for the project through the special-use permit process. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will always be a balancing act,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The council is scheduled to open a public hearing on the IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special-use permit application at its meeting on Monday. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. and will be shown on Channel 18. <\/p>\n<p>In other action Monday night, the council:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 increased the budget for the Better Buildings program by $75,000, reflecting an additional round of federal support. The program provides funding for energy-efficiency improvements by local businesses;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 approved an April 9 fundraising event atop the Wallace parking deck for Kidzu; and<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 agreed to name the road to Southern Community Park and the Southern Village Park and Ride lot Sumac Road. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Staff Reports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chapel Hill Town Council on Monday decided to delay finalizing proposed guidelines for a homeless shelter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710","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=16710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16736,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}