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entrepreneurship. He said that if citizens live and work in the community then they are better <br />citizens. He said that it was important that this document not sit on a shelf. He said that the <br />reason he lives in Chapel Hill was that he was so impressed that the downtown area was <br />created in 1789 and it is still functional and vibrant. He believes that the community has a big <br />opportunity now because far the last 50 years, the downtown area has struggled to maintain its <br />prominence as aretail-chapping destination. He said that this is an opportunity to leverage the <br />investment in the arts. He spoke in support of park and ride lots in the downtown Chapel Hill <br />area. <br />Delores Bailey, Ca-Director for Empowerment, Inc., said that she was delighted to be on the <br />committee. She highlighted #3 - a sufficient supply of meaningful jobs so that local residents <br />can work close to where they live, thereby maintaining the social diversity necessary for a <br />vibrant community. Her committee, infrastructure, addressed the African American declining <br />population in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and lack of social outlets for minorities. They also <br />discussed jobs that would attract African Americans and other minorities to Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro. She said that the important thing to her was that 21 people representing different <br />areas of the community came together and talked about these issues. She said that this report <br />would not make a difference unless the leaders in the communities become united and address <br />these issues. She would like to help make this happen. <br />Ruffin Slater works at Weaver Street Market. He said that the report is a good first step towards <br />defining a sustainable future for the entire community. They want to engage the community in <br />improving this vision over the next several months. They would like to have a dialogue to revise <br />the report. They would like for the ongoing group, the Sustainable Roundtable, to continue to <br />coordinate the process and measure the community's progress towards the benchmarks. <br />The report is on the website -www.sustainablecommunitv.info. <br />Sally Greene made reference to the perceived connection between the urban services <br />boundary's existence and the cost of housing in Chapel Hill. She said that it seems that this is <br />true, but she wonders if there is any subjective evidence that this is true. She cautioned that <br />this should not be assumed without evidence because it cuts against the existence of it and <br />people might think that the urban services boundary should be eliminated. <br />Alex Zaffran said that this is a nice restatement of the Carrboro Vision 2020 and downtown <br />vision plans and a blueprint for how they can benchmark this work. He made reference to Sally <br />Greene's comments and said that James Carnahan was saying that within an urban services <br />boundary that there are finite resources and if we are going to achieve goals of social equity, we <br />need to maximize the use of those resources in a sustainable fashion. He does not think James <br />Carnahan was making a direct connection. <br />4. Air Quality and Bia-diesel <br />Chair Jacobs said that Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil was ill <br />and could not make this presentation. Commissioner Halkiotis is also very interested in this, but <br />he is also ill tonight. Commissioner Halkiotis asked him to tell the group that a study group is <br />being established by the County, Towns, and the schools to look at how to use bio-diesel in <br />vehicles that are currently in use or may become used by the governments. <br />Planning Director Craig Benedict said that all of the cities, counties, and school districts have <br />been engaged in some form of air quality initiatives. As of April 15th, the Triangle region was <br />declared an ozone non-attainment area, which means that some funding may be removed from <br />