
{"id":25246,"date":"2012-04-19T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25246"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:26:00","slug":"ch2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/19\/ch2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CH2020 process concerns expressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the Chapel Hill Town Council decided to undertake the development of a new comprehensive plan, council members and community members alike hoped to use the process to reexamine the vision for the town and craft a plan for what Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future should look like.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, the process was a huge undertaking, and when Chapel Hill 2020 launched last fall CH2020 leaders hoped to involve a huge, diverse group representing all niches of the community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c something they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve certainly at the very least come close to accomplishing, with hundreds of residents showing up to a number of meetings over the past seven months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had truly amazing outreach,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said 2020 Co-Chair and former Mayor Rosemary Waldorf. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am extremely proud of how successful we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been at reaching a lot of people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Through that involvement, leaders hoped the community could craft a planning and visioning document creating a framework for the community to guide the council in managing the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future over the next decade. Under the proposed process timeline, that document would be ready in June. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel that we have a really good shot at giving the council a good vision and framework document on schedule,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Waldorf said. <\/p>\n<p>At the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s March 26 meeting, a number of residents spoke critically of the Chapel Hill 2020 process thus far and asked the council to slow down the process, citing concerns about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153future focus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d land-use maps developed at meetings and what they called a rushed timeline to develop the document. Several of those who spoke were residents of the U.S. 15-501 South corridor, expressing concerns about their lack of representation on the recently appointed 15-501 South Corridor Discussion Group, which will develop land-use recommendations for the CH2020 process. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the council heard a report regarding those concerns from Town Manager Roger Stancil, who said that the maps \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which a number of residents said were not representative of the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision and were developed in a rushed fashion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c would not be included in the final document.<\/p>\n<p>The map exercise, he said, was intended as an opportunity for community members to provide input. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think actually the next draft that comes out will be a much-improved draft based on the comments that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Waldorf emphasized that CH2020 is not just about land use, but is intended to develop an entire set of goals for the community regarding a variety of issues, including transportation, how to serve the teenage population, fiscal sustainability and more. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been saying with a lot of regularity that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that people not view this as something that has been rushed, but as something that has a part A and a part B.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This part of the process was not supposed to yield a zoning ordinance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping that this process will identify where the participants are willing to allow some of the growth to go.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Planning Board Chair Del Snow said the planning board is united in their concerns about the CH2020 process, citing issues with goals and visions being developed without data, not enough time to develop the document and the absence of UNC throughout the process. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They are a driver of growth. They have a huge influence on our economy, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the problem of student housing, which has a huge impact on the town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Planning board member Amy Ryan and Julie McClintock echoed Snow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerns. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One area of concern was that the story of Chapel Hill is not yet in the plan,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ryan said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The conversation we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having needs to be about both change and preservation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>McClintock reported progress at last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theme group meetings in further developing the vision and goals for the plan, but said that wide-ranging discussions based on data need to be held so that participants can weigh tradeoffs of potential goals.  <\/p>\n<p>The next Chapel Hill 2020 community meeting will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Chapel Hill High School. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chapel Hill Town Council decided to undertake the development of a new comprehensive plan, council members and community members alike hoped to use the process to reexamine the vision for the town and craft a plan for what Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future should look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25267,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions\/25267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}