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

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Written Comments and Questions • Recommends that the area located at the corner of Weaver Diary Road and N.C. 86 from the October 6, 1994 Meeting: be considered for conditional commercial zoning. Rather than an overall rezoning The Work Group should seriously to commercial use, the Work Group consider making a .stronger statement should consider the East Franklin Street concerning the potential use of Site 17 as Corridor Study method as a means to a future landfill. The area borders both allow commercial development through Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and Eubanks conditional zoning. Road will suffer from the industrial traffic. Also, did the Work Group consider that if This conditional zoning would provide a the landfill is placed on Site 17, that it will way to join some of the properties and face areas designated for 1 unitlacre eliminate some of the accesses. The residential development? Obviously, the incentive is to allow property to be used implementation and success of this plan is as a conditional commercial use, but contingent upon a landfill not being require the property owner to apply for a placed on the Blackwood Division of specific use on a conditional basis. Duke Forest. • Landfill Site 17 mainly affects Eubanks • Nothing we can build will be as beautiful, Road. This road, serving as the northern as valuable, or as precious to future generations as leaving the Greene tract east-west connector road to this whole intact. Leave it as a woodland rather than community should be a showplace. But, exploit it as real estate. It can be the landfill and its garbage trucks and connected by a bike/pedestrian path to the tractor trailers destroy this image. Be Bike path in Carrboro, and thus be realistic,the Work Group must oppose the accessible to many people. selection of Site 17 as the next landfill. • Studies have proven that landfills cause a 0 For the transportation corridor, pave down great deal of problems for local residents the right-of-way and run buses one-way. This would be cheap and feasible. (bad smells, buzzards, waste that falls off Develop the new roads with bike lanes on trucks, and contaminated water). Do all of them. more than just im I that Site 17 should not be used for a landfill. It is important Regarding the re-use of the landfill, if that you strongly oppose the landfill for nothing can be done here, then it can at the good of your proposed development least be incorporated with the new park. site. If a landfill is placed on Site 17, and This is good for wildlife and could have with the kind of press landfills are getting unseen benefits in the long term. Stop today, it will be difficult to persuade showing the existing land fill on the map potential buyers of your units of the as prime buildable land. benefits of living in that area. • The southeast corner of Weaver Dairy The northern tip of the study area should Road and N.C. 86 should be rezoned be high density. This area is surrounded commercial, so that the housing proposed by too much to be used as very expensive in the area (Northwood V, and along the lots. Also, this area is close to a transport west side of N.C. 86 between Weaver stop. Could support higher densities in Dairy Extension and the new park) will general! have necessary shops and services within Make an explicit statement about no walking distance. heavy industry in the employment campus areas. Page A-30 Northwest Small Area Plan