
{"id":5847,"date":"2009-05-14T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:42:42","slug":"pushback-brings-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/05\/14\/pushback-brings-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushback brings results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anything more tedious to plow through than a traffic impact analysis (TIA), please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forward it on to us.<\/p>\n<p>In a lot of instances of public policy, the devil is in the details. A TIA is pretty much all details and the devil is in trying to make sense of it.<\/p>\n<p>So credit the earnest citizens from Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth (NRG) for giving the recently issued traffic impact analysis for Carolina North a good going over and for finding ways to connect the potential results of the new development to the people who will most experience them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By meeting with neighborhoods closest to the project and walking them through the impacts, the NRG has done a great public service in raising both awareness and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long been noted that Carolina North is a massive undertaking, but finding ways to explain how that affects the everyday lives of residents, commuters and those who will live and work at the place is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The NRG effort can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be defined as NIMBY by any stretch of the imagination. <\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no attempt being made to put up roadblocks to the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-range goal of an academic mixed-use development. The goal of reasonable, well-managed growth is of mutual benefit to those already here and those who will arrive in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>No plan is perfect, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to all parties to get involved and strike a balance that meets a variety of goals. As we have seen in the development of a plan for the main campus, pushback from those most closely affected by projects often yields better results for all parties.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of its location, Carolina North will have an impact on neighborhoods unlike anything imagined here in a very long while.<br \/>\nPublic input and involvement is the surest way to make certain that maintaining a high quality of life now and into the future remains an overarching goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anything more tedious to plow through than a traffic impact analysis (TIA), please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forward it on to us. In a lot of instances of public policy, the devil is in the details. A TIA is pretty much all details and the devil is in trying to make sense of it. So&#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-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","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=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}