Agenda - 10-11-1995 - Items 1 and 2 - Appendix 3

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ATTACHMENT 1 The Plan - Overview and areas efficiently serviced by public utilities, services, and transit, avoiding strip development, This report has examined the environmental and 2) small-scale professional, commercial and conditions of the study area,established goals and service employers in low-intensity developments objectives for the area, and identified several designed to minimize conflicts with adjacent building blocks for various land use patterns that residential development. could be used in the Northwest Area. Building on these criteria, this section presents a long-range The development of an Employment Campus in plan for the Northwest Area. this area also supports the Comprehensive Plan's Economic Goals of promoting employment in In formulating the plan, the Work Group also areas central to major transportation systems,with considered three alternative plans for the area(see surrounding higher-intensity residential uses. In Appendix). The consideration of all four of these particular, the Comprehensive Plan supports such plans produced the final recommended plan. a mix of uses in the N.C. 86 and Interstate 40 area. The recommended plan combines all of the planning concept "building blocks": Protection of This Employment Campus land use represents a Existing Neighborhoods, Affordable Housing, new category that would be primarily Open Space, Greenways, the Village Pattern, the characterized by small-scale flex-space and office Employment Campus, and the option of a uses appropriate to the area. In particular, the Transportation Corridor. Campus would serve as a destination that would attract employees for the duration of the work The Recommended Plan day. One of the first steps in formulating a plan was This new land use will require a new zoning the protection of existing residential category that will promote well-designed, neighborhoods. In particular, the plan seeks to functional places of employment. Some protect the Northwood neighborhood and the secondary uses that may be considered as part of Rogers Road and Billabong Lane areas. the employment campus concept are service- oriented uses, research and development uses, Based on the fact that the northwest area contains and medical facilities. some of the little land left in Chapel Hill that is In keeping with the Town's adopted suitable for office, commercial or retail use, and Comprehensive Plan Goals, the plan reflects the considering that the area has easy access to an Town's existing mixed use land use on the land interstate interchange, an Employment Campus is east of N.C. 86 and north of Weaver Dairy Road. shown along Eubanks Road and Millhouse Road. Mixed Use zoning calls for a mix of commercial, The Employment Campus is intended to support office, and residential in this area. the Town's Comprehensive Plan Goal of Based on the large amount of commercial square encouraging a local economy characterized by footage (259,200 s.f.) that has been approved as varied scale and types of educational, research, part of the Chapel Hill North development, the professional, commercial and service activities. proximity of existing residential neighborhoods, In particular, the Comprehensive Plan suggests a and in support of the Town's Entranceway local economy including 1) office, institutional, Protection Goals, the plan reflects an Office- and commercial employers of small to medium Institutional land use for the lots at the southeast scale, located in conveniently accessible centers intersection of N.C. 86 and Weaver Dairy Road. Northwest Small Area Plan Page 35