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PUBLIC DISPUTES PROGRAM Dispute Set#lement Center of Orange County Since 198, the Public Disputes Program has been helping communities, jurisdictions and organizations discuss difficult topics, resolve multi-party conflict, and develop consensus-building skills by designing collaborative processes, providing mediation and facilitation, and conducting training and education programs. For more information, contact .Andrew M. Sachs, Program Coordinator, 302 Weaver Street, Carrboro, NC 27510, (919) 929-8800, ext. 23, asaschsCa~disputesettlement.org. Representative Project Experience Design and facilitation of a year long community consensus building process on the Town of Carrboro's Northern Transition Area Small Area Plan. The result of this intervention, the "Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area" was selected in 200o by the NC Carolina Chapter of the .American Planning Association as the recipient of the Brian Benson Award for Small Community Comprehensive Planning. • Facilitation of public forum through which parks and recreation advocates, environmental advocates, affordable housing advocates, neighbors of the "Greene tract," and officials from Chapel Hill; Carrboro and Orange County met to clarify options for future uses of a io9 acre parcel jointly owned by the three local governments. • Mediation for residents living near the Orange County regional landfill and representatives of three local governments. The parties negotiated an agreement through which the governments would acquire soil from adjoining tracts for use in landfill operations while minimizing adverse impacts on residents and the environment. Facilitation of a work group composed of people from neighborhoods near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) power plant and UNC administrators. The group evaluated UNC's plans for demolishing and reconstructing the power plant's coal silos. After aseven-month process, work group members signed an "outcome document" that recorded areas of understanding and agreement, clarified issues that were not yet resolved, and set forth methods for future consultations between tTNC and the neighbors. • Design and facilitation of process through which twenty seven residents of Chapel Hili, Carrboro, Hillsborough and the unincorporated areas of Orange County appointed by their respective jurisdictions to the Shaping Orange County's Future Task Force reached consensus on a set of values and goals for guiding the community's future and on a draft set of recommendations for achieving those ideals. • Facilitation for 60 local elected officials, non-profit housing development and advocacy organizations, government staff, and advisory board members convened by, a local Department of Housing and Community Development for athree-hour "strategic housing session." Participants learned about different types of public funding