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DocuSign Envelope ID:595B32A6-DA2E-4813-8C1A-19922903BFF8 <br /> - Mayor Lavelle continued: The Town of Carrboro is working on its comprehensive plan for <br /> several months and it will continue for a few more months. Tomorrow night is our next <br /> community-wide planning meeting and begins at 7:00 p.m. as a Zoom meeting. We had <br /> between 150 to 200 people on our first Zoom kick-off meeting so we have had good <br /> participation so far. You can join and participate at https://www.carrboroconnects.org/. <br /> - The 203 Project continues with 100%support from the County Commissioners and Town of <br /> Carrboro Board. Hoping to break ground this fall. <br /> • Jon Hartman-Brown—Town of Carrboro, Economic Development <br /> - The Carrboro Tourism Development Authority (TDA) is working with parks and recreation on the <br /> Freight Train Blues Festival coming this May. <br /> • Mayor Pam Hemminger—Town of Chapel Hill <br /> - The Town of Chapel Hill will be announcing a new program that the University of North Carolina <br /> and the town have been working together on called Downtown Together. We have formed a <br /> working group task force to enhance downtown and the university to encourage more <br /> significant investments in our downtown area. The goals are to clean things up and make <br /> downtown a nicer experience so that more of our downtown building are leased or even pre- <br /> leased and bringing more full-time jobs so that we have more office workers that contribute to <br /> our business community and using services downtown. <br /> - The East Rosemary Parking Deck is slated for demolition in June. This will be a yearlong project, <br /> so we are shifting folks around to two other places as we temporarily lose those 300 parking <br /> spaces. <br /> - The 136-137 project has more businesses interested. <br /> - The repaving project for West Franklin and Main Street Carrboro has been postponed until the <br /> summer 2022. This allows us to experiment a little longer with our expanded sidewalk project <br /> and what works for our community. <br /> - We have started providing free parking on the west end on Saturdays and after 6:00 p.m. on <br /> weekdays through August. <br /> - We have not made a decision about the 4th of July yet so more to come on that in the coming <br /> months. <br /> - We have 41 development projects on our list. This shows there is a lot of interest in our <br /> community looking forward. <br /> • Matt Gladdek—Executive Director, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership <br /> - The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership annual meeting will be Tuesday, April 13th at noon. The <br /> consultant who did our strategic plan will be giving a presentation on downtown trends during <br /> COVID-19. One of the main things from our strategic plan is trying to re-center downtown as a <br /> place for live music since we have such great venues already between Carrboro and us. <br /> - In anticipation of re-centering downtown as a place for live music, we hired Kaze Thomas who <br /> we will be taking on as a permanent staff member in our next fiscal year starting in July. He has <br /> started his "Save the Music" series again. We did our first couple of artists this past weekend, <br /> which was a little bit cold. We are starting slow with a couple of artists, one on East Franklin <br /> and one on West Franklin, and moving them around until it gets really nice out. We are <br /> pursuing some sponsorship dollars to try to expand what we can do. <br /> - It is too early to make an official announcement but we have a number of small property deals <br /> that are underway now. These involve local owners. One of the large complaints we have had <br /> about Franklin Street is that it is out-of-town owners that are disconnected from the street. We <br /> are seeing some important properties that are switching into local hands and doing exciting <br /> things for downtown. <br /> 2 Page CHOCVB B 0 D Meeting March 17 , 2021 <br />