
{"id":18228,"date":"2011-05-18T19:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18228"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:08:53","slug":"letter-consider-cvs-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/05\/18\/letter-consider-cvs-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Consider CVS implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very hopeful that the Carrboro Board of Alderman will show us that they have a vision of our future that mirrors the needs and desires of all of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s citizens as they contemplate the consequences of allowing CVS a conditional-use permit (CUP) to build a store at 201 N. Greensboro St.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, CVS would add 11,000 square feet of occupied retail space to the tax base (even as many retail spaces remain empty and thousands of square feet of previously planned mixed-use development is stalled). Shoppers would have a wider selection of cold remedies at the CVS, and the Harris Teeter could expand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps increasing the Oreo selection (a paltry 21 feet of shelf space for only 16 varieties, when there are in fact 33 different kinds). <\/p>\n<p>Now the downside: The neighborhood suffers. I live on Oak Avenue, which is\u00c2\u00a0classified a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153collector\u00e2\u20ac\u009d street, even though its physical and practical capacity are not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153collector\u00e2\u20ac\u009d grade in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Oak Avenue is 29 feet wide, no sidewalks; new collector streets are specified to be 34 feet wide with sidewalks and bike lanes. We should be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153minor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d street, with the lowest level of projected traffic, 100 cars or less per day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But we have more than 600 vehicles a day, at last count, with two-thirds headed south (and in a hurry) to avoid the universally\u00c2\u00a0despised intersection of Greensboro and Weaver streets. Anything that makes it less desirable to drive through that mess (like the current construction) makes for even more traffic for us. The affected area is larger, of course, and I recommend a comprehensive study of downtown traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is already plenty bad \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Weaver Street Market\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s need for traffic-control assistance for backing trucks into their loading zone is a constant annoyance (and one of the reasons Oak Avenue is such a popular cut-through). Surely any major development on that corner requires considering that untenable situation, not to mention the impact of the maybe-it-will-happen-this-time 300 East Main project.<\/p>\n<p>As you weigh this issue, please ask yourself, what kind of Carrboro do you see in 10 or 20 years? What is your vision of a town you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to live in? Tell me your vision, show me how approving this CUP takes us in that direction \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or better yet, ask anybody who lives here what they think.\u00c2\u00a0The board needs a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153compelling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reason to grant the CUP \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if there is one, please, somebody, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Frank<br \/>\n<em>Carrboro<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very hopeful that the Carrboro Board of Alderman will show us that they have a vision of our future that mirrors the needs and desires of all of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s citizens &#8230;<\/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-18228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228","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=18228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18229,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18228\/revisions\/18229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}