
{"id":26786,"date":"2012-07-05T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:09:30","slug":"cvs-developers-present-new-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/cvs-developers-present-new-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS developers present new plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0After postponing a public hearing scheduled for April, developers of a CVS project proposed for the corner of North Greensboro and Weaver streets have returned with three revised plans, all of which scale back the proposal from Center Street. <\/p>\n<p>Developers presented the plans at a neighborhood meeting at Carrboro Town Hall last week.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26787\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/cvs-developers-present-new-plans\/option1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1.jpg\" alt=\"Plan 1\" title=\"Option1\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1-113x103.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1-122x113.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1-100x92.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option1-360x331.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plan 1 includes the most parking of the three options, with 61 parking spaces, and a small park or community garden area along Center Street. The dumpster is located within the parking area near the center of the property.  IMAGE COURTESY OF KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCVS Caremark earlier this year filed for a conditional-use permit and a rezoning to allow it to build a two-story, 24,000-square-foot building with a 24-hour CVS on the ground floor, office and storage space above it and a parking lot on land occupied by the former WCOM building, two homes on Center Street and the offices of dentist Debra Seaton. <\/p>\n<p>Following neighborhood feedback and comments from the Carrboro Planning Board that the current mix of residential and commercial zonings on the parcels is appropriate considering the residential properties on the west side of Center Street, developers asked to postpone a public hearing on the previously proposed plans. <\/p>\n<p>Two of the three new plans would avoid redeveloping 104 Center St. altogether, while the other would scale back parking previously proposed for 104 and 106 Center St. and add a small park along Center Street. The footprint of the proposed building remains the same in the new plans, but several architectural changes have been made, including the addition of awnings, balconies and an atrium-style entrance on the corner of North Greensboro and Weaver.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26794\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/cvs-developers-present-new-plans\/option2a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a.jpg\" alt=\"Plan 2\" title=\"Option2a\" width=\"500\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a-113x103.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a-123x113.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a-100x91.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2a-360x330.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plan 2 includes 50 parking spaces, including six spaces that are separated from the main lot, with an entrance on Short Street. The dumpster is located along Short Street. IMAGE COURTESY OF KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn addition, each of the three plans reduces the amount of parking from the previously proposed 64 spaces to between 47 and 61 spaces. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153These are our last three options. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to go with one. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know which one that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be yet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said development representative Leigh Polzella, adding that they would not revert back to the previous plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that the very-much consensus is pulling off of Center Street as much as possible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she continued. <\/p>\n<p>CVS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans to develop the property have drawn fire from nearby residents, who say the development is not appropriate for the space and would increase traffic on an already burdened area.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26797\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/cvs-developers-present-new-plans\/option2b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b.jpg\" alt=\"Plan 3\" title=\"Option2b\" width=\"500\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b-113x103.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b-123x113.jpg 123w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b-100x91.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Option2b-360x330.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plan 3 includes the least amount of parking of the three options, with 47 parking spaces. The dumpster is located within the parking area near the northern end of the property. IMAGE COURTESY OF KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSome residents said they preferred the new plans to the previous plan, but were still critical of the project overall. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My feedback would be that these plans are better than the ones you submitted before,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Peter deLeeuw, one of the owners of the 102 Center St. property who refused to sell their property to CVS. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still trying to fit something where it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit, next to this residential neighborhood. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still 24 hours; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still going to generate traffic and noise and light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Residents also questioned what would happen with the house on Center Street that CVS already owns if developers pursue one of the options that would not use the Center Street properties. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What kind of guarantees do we have that later on CVS won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to make a bigger parking lot?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Center Street resident Jeff Herrick asked. <\/p>\n<p>Polzella said she was not sure what would happen to the property, but that the house would not be rented out since CVS isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the leasing business, adding that later expanding the parking lot would require a rezoning \u00e2\u20ac\u201c something developers would hope to avoid with a plan that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t develop the Center Street properties. <\/p>\n<p>Town development-review administrator Marty Roupe said it was not yet clear what type of rezoning the new plans would require. <\/p>\n<p>Polzella said she did not know when they would submit a plan to the town, but that they would likely be talking with town staff within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of a CVS project proposed for the corner of North Greensboro and Weaver streets have returned with three revised plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","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=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26801,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}