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

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• Concerned about gentrification and the zoning flexibility in such an area? need to protect existing property owners (Wayne Hadler explained that the work from being pushed out of this area. group was looking at the flexibility to Gentrification was defined as the process restrict certain types of uses that might not by which an aging area is converted into be desirable in this area. Mary Reeb a more affluent middle-class explained that the current zoning neighborhood, through the remodeling encourages "sprawl" and that the and renovation of dwellings, which results "employment center" concept was more in increased property values and focused on being a campus (i.e. Blue displacement of the poor. - Cross/Blue Shield building on 15-501) where people come to work, and stay all • Need a plan to acquire park land, day.) especially in low-lying areas. Could set aside money annually (1 to 1 1/2 percent • Frustrated by existing dirt and filth on of budget). Need more stormwater Eubanks Road. Also, concerned with how management, there has been too much difficult it is to get from Eubanks Road building and paving on the east side of onto NC86 during peak hours. Concerned town. The Town needs larger parks. The about maintaining the residential quality of small park on Ephesus Church Road is the area. Wants UPS to be zoned more too small,and is overlooked by the police. restrictively, and does not want any increase in industry in this area. • Problems with how to pay for water and sewer improvements. Town should not be • Need more affordable housing. involved. Concerned that affordable housing is being linked with higher density • Concerned about increase in traffic on development. Supports more park space. Homestead Road, over the past 10 years. Concerned about development around Need information on 45 laning of transit node in alternative #3. In Homestead Road before finishing the particular, the node would create a space Northwest Small Area Plan. (Judy to bring people, who are not already Johnson, Town Transportation Planner, there. responded that the widening of Homestead Road is on the NCDOT • Where is the Northern Park and Ride Lot? Transportation Improvement Program. (Dave Roesler, Town Design Coordinator, The project is scheduled to take place in pointed out on the map that the site of the next five years, but the current scope the Town's northern park and ride lot is of the project is only the portion of north of Eubanks Road, and immediately Homestead Road between High School east of the UPS site. Road and Seawell School Road. The number of lanes has not yet been • Will the increased tax revenues pay for determined. Presently, Carrboro and the service demands that new Chapel Hill are looking at the plan and development will bring? Why do the possibility of extending the project commercial uses have to be on Eubanks from Seawell School Road to NC86.) Road, they have already been having to put up with the landfill. Why not put • What is the impetus for an "employment commercial development on Homestead center" and why do we need it? The Road? It is unfair that Chapel Hill gets to concept is too vague. What does the decided how this area will develop, and work group mean by providing additional yet the property owners do not have the opportunity to vote for Town of Chapel Hill Council Members. Northwest Small Area Plan Page A-25