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~.~' ~"' Orange County Department of Housing and Community August 7, 2006 Development Revitalization • Preservation • Innovation Doug Schworer Sunrise Coalition, Inc. P.O: Box 16722 Chapel Hi]1, NC 27516 Dear NIr. Schworer: Tara L. Filces Director This letter is written in response to your May 28, 2006 letter regarding the Development .Agreement between Orange County and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, NC, Inc (I~30C) for the Sunrise Ridge Project. The response is ordered by reply to each issue presented in your letter. 1. HHOC did not submit asite-speck development plan to the Town of Chapel Hill by December 31, 2005 as required by the agreement. In fact, HHOC has only submitted a concept plan to the Town of Chapel Hill in January 2006. A concept plan is only a very high level proposal and does not constitute }ta soand site specific development plan" as required in the agreement. It should be noted that the plan submitted in January of 2006 and presented to the Town Council by HHOC on April 2006 was significantly different from the one submitted to the Town Council by HHOC in October 2004. The Town of Chapel Hill requires the submission of a Concept Plan prior to applying for a Special Use Permit via a Development Application. The initial Concept Plan submission by HHOC to the Town was in July 2004 with a revised submission on January 19, 2006. Although submission of the second Concept Plan in 2006 was late by three weelrs (December 31, 2006), staff considers these efforts to begin the Development Application process as sufficient to meet the progress intended'by the requirement in the Development Agreement to submit a "sound site specific development plan ". 2. HHOC did not engage the neighbors in the development of the concept plan submitted in January and presented to the Tovvnt Council on April 19, 2006 as required by the Development Agreement. In fact, there was no opportunity for input from the surroundiag community regarding this plan. The plan .was merely presented to us without an opportunity for input. According to the Agreement, HHOC must provide evidence that the surrounding community has been involved in the development plan. The Sunrise .Coalition has submitted. documentation to HHOC, the Town of. Chapel Hill; .and Orange County about the lack of any "meaningful" involvement in the development of earlier plans and we have had no involvement in the second plan.. It is. our understanding that HHOC field a meeting, with the Sunrise Coalition on February 2, 2006 to review the Concept Plan. Also at that meeting, HHOC Mailing .A.ddress: P.O. Box 8181 • Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Main Office: 300 West Tryon Street • Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Telephones: 919/732-8181 • 967-9251 • 688-7331 •227-2031 • Extension 2490 • Fax: 919/644-3056 • TDD: 644-3045 ~' Satellite Office:2501 Homestead Road • Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 Telephones: 919/969-3016 • Fax: 919/969-3018