
{"id":9404,"date":"2010-03-18T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/03\/18\/greenways-discussion-continues\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:42:55","slug":"greenways-discussion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/18\/greenways-discussion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenways discussion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARRBORO  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The tension that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been brewing in the community over the proposed paved path along Bolin Creek broke out among members of the Carrboro Greenways Commission at Town Hall Monday night. The commission met to discuss the Greenways Inc. report that supports creekside paving, and disagreement arose after commission member Salli Benedict requested that her response to the report be submitted to the Carrboro Board of Alderman as a minority opinion. <\/p>\n<p>Commission chair George Daniel objected on procedural grounds. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not restructuring the process to suit the concerns of one member,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Commission member Dave Otto pointed out that the concerns Benedict wanted to bring up already had been published in the newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>But Alderman Randee Haven-O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell, board liaison to the commission, emphasized that the parts of the greenways proposal that included creekside paving had been taken off the table by the board of alderman and that it was important that Benedict be allowed to share her concerns. Others supported that view, and Benedict was allowed to read her response. <\/p>\n<p>Benedict\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerns, which are also those of the advocacy group Save Bolin Creek, include the report\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of consideration for alternative path routing, especially given Carolina North\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment to building bike lanes to connect the Carolina North campus with central campus. She said the report underestimates the disturbance to wildlife, vegetation and water quality that would result from the heavy machinery required for pavement construction. And she questioned whether as a community Carrboro should ask for an exception from the Jordan Lake Rules, which prohibit disturbance within 30 feet of a stream bank, in order to build a paved bike path.<\/p>\n<p>Commission member Robert Kirchner motioned to include Benedict\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s written response in the minutes and table the Greenways discussion until the next meeting. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Staff Reports<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions brewing over the proposed paved path along Bolin Creek broke out among members of the Carrboro Greenways Commission at Town Hall Monday night.<\/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-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9431,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}