Agenda - 10-11-1995 - Items 1 and 2 - Appendix 1

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is adjacent to the study area. The Mill is a small, development of a future Town Park. Ballfields one and one-half story building located beside a and a Community Center are eventually proposed mill pond and unnamed creek that is a tributary of to be a part of this site. The park also includes a Old Field Creek. The residence was originally Public Housing component, as a development of built between 1910-1912 by Eugene Blackwood's 12 duplexes opened in the fall of 1993. • father. The structure was converted to a rental residence in the 1950s. The Timberlyne Shopping Center development is located near the intersection of N.C. 86 and - Modern History Weaver Dairy Road. Construction on the shopping center began in the early 1980s, and a The recent history of the area is characterized by second phase was built in the late 1980s. In the retail/commercial growth, and the construction of early 1990s, several outparcels were developed, the Orange County Regional Landfill. The Orange including a large office building for the Home County Regional landfill on Eubanks Road was Health Agency. Although the shopping center is purchased in 1972, and is owned jointly by not within the study area, it is adjacent to the Orange County (43%), Chapel Hill (43%), and eastern portion of the area, and it is the primary Carrboro (14%). By agreement of the three retail/commercial site serving the study area. jurisdictions, the Chapel Hill Public Works Department manages the landfill. The Town Council approved a master land use plan for the Chapel Hill North development in The regional landfill consists of 203 acres that are January 1990. The development is located at the bisected into two portions by Eubanks Road. The southeast intersection of N.C. 86 and Interstate 40. larger portion of the landfill that is north of Eubanks Road is presently in operation. The The Chapel Hill North site is zoned for Mixed remainder of the landfill that is south of Eubanks Use development. This type of development is Road is presently under construction. It is designed to encourage a mix of office, retail, and anticipated that the landfill will continue in residential development, with office use being the operation until 2002 or 2003. primary component. This land use is intended to be pedestrian-friendly and oriented towards the In 1984, the Orange Regional Landfill Owners Town's needs, rather than traffic traveling on Group (representing Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Interstate 40. The approved Chapel Hill North Orange County) purchased a 169-acre parcel Mixed Use development contains a mix of 60% known as the "Greene Tract." This parcel, which office and 40% retail; there is no residential is located southeast of the present landfill, was element. In 1991, a special use permit was purchased to serve as a future landfill. Based on approved for Phase I of the project. the regulation that landfills are not permitted within 10,000 feet of airports using jet-powered Sources: aircraft, the State Division of Solid Waste determined that the Greene Tract would not be Lefler, Hugh & Paul Wager, eds. Orange County permitted to serve as a landfill site as long as the 1752-1952. The Orange Printshop, 1952. Horace Williams Airport remains in operation. Colonial and U.S. Census Reports 1770-1920 Locally, concern exists about a new landfill being Schedule 4, Production of Agriculture in located in Chapel Hill's future corporate limits. First District of Orange County, 1850- Presently, the final four potential new landfill sites 1890. under consideration by the Landfill Search Population Schedules 1770-1920 Committee do not include the Greene tract. Slave Schedules The Town of Chapel Hill purchased the Maddry Orange County Property Deeds 1750-1920 property on the west side of N.C. 86 for the Page 8 Northwest Small Area Plan