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• <br /> 1• <br /> Summary of Chapel Hill Township Advisory Council Meeting 094 <br /> Held in Chapel Hill on May 8, 1986 <br /> ATTENDANCE <br /> TAC MEMBERS: Kirk P. Pelland, Chair <br /> Dr. H. Stanley Bennett <br /> Abbie Dickinson <br /> Dr. Alice Gordon <br /> Shade K. Little <br /> Planning Staff: Gene Bell <br /> Visitors: Mrs. Bennett <br /> Randy Danziger <br /> Elizabeth Shoemaker <br /> Agenda items discussed and major comments related to them <br /> were as follows: <br /> 1) Call to Order - A quorum was established at 7:50 and the meeting was <br /> called to order. The Chair had several items to comment on., First, he <br /> asked members for suggestions on how the TAC could be more effective. He <br /> expressed frustration at seeing TAC recommendations seemingly stop at the <br /> staff level . Dr. Gordon suggested that the TAC become more active at both <br /> the staff and Planning Board level . Dr. Bennett mentioned that when <br /> he was TAC Chair he found it useful to always present TAC recommendations <br /> in a formal statement. He emphasized that the Planning Board and Board <br /> of Commissioners were faced with numerous issues and that whatever the TAC <br /> submitted to them needed to be succinct and well reasoned. <br /> The second item the Chair had was the presentation of a petition from the <br /> Stoneycreek Neighborhood Association regarding preservation of the Rural <br /> Buffer in the I-40/New Hope Church Road area. <br /> Next, Dr. Gordon asked about the TAC recommendation to the Planning Board <br /> on the Joint Planning Land Use Plan. Kirk Pelland responded that the TAC <br /> had already made a recommendation and that he felt it was counterproductive <br /> to keep making recommendations when the matter doesn' t seem to be settled, <br /> e.g. , on-going neighborhood meetings. Abbie Dickinson stated that she <br /> shared some of the same concerns. Dr. Gordon said she understood the <br /> frustration, but emphasized that the TAC needed to go on record as taking <br /> a position. <br /> 2) Additions to the Agenda - TAC consensus was to add a discussion of <br /> the Joint Planning Land Use Plan as a whole after Resource Protection <br /> Areas on the agenda. Following the discussion of the Calvander Node, <br /> the order of items was rearranged as follows: <br /> -Resource Protection Areas <br /> -JPA Land Use Plan as a Whole <br /> -Master Park Plan <br /> -1-40 Corridor Study <br />