
{"id":5296,"date":"2009-03-26T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:42:30","slug":"rogers-road-petition-to-be-presented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/03\/26\/rogers-road-petition-to-be-presented\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Road petition to be presented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Taylor Sisk<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At its quarterly meeting tonight (Thursday), the Orange County Assembly of Governments will receive a petition from residents of the Rogers-Eubanks roads community calling on the Chapel Hill Town Council to pass a resolution to provide water and sewer connections to all residences in the community. The Assembly of Governments is comprised of the county commissioners and the town boards of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For over 35 years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the petition reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) residents have awaited public services improvements and basic amenities (including, but not limited to regulated, public water and sanitary sewer service).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The petition states that in 2002, the Chapel Hill Town Council adopted a resolution to develop a small area plan task force to explore the impacts of providing more comprehensive public services to the Rogers-Eubanks community, specifically to the Rogers and Purefoy roads area.<\/p>\n<p>It further states that while previous requests to address the needs of the community had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153largely come to naught,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the establishment of the task force \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hopes were high that this time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d these needs would be addressed. <\/p>\n<p>Rather, the petition states, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an all too familiar pattern has apparently set in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no action by the Council or coordination with Carrboro, Orange County, and OWASA to develop and implement a timeline for providing OWASA water and sewer connections to all of those residences in the Rogers-Eubanks community presently without functioning connections.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>RENA, along with the Coalition to End Environmental Racism, also will present a recommended resolution by which the Chapel Hill Town Council would agree to develop such a timeline within 30 days of passing the resolution. <\/p>\n<p>The Assembly of Governments meeting is at 7 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures, 200 S. Elliott Road in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer At its quarterly meeting tonight (Thursday), the Orange County Assembly of Governments will receive a petition from residents of the Rogers-Eubanks roads community calling on the Chapel Hill Town Council to pass a resolution to provide water and sewer connections to all residences in the community. The Assembly of Governments&#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-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}