Agenda - 10-01-2024; 6-a - Greene Tract – Community Engagement, Master Plan, and Next Steps

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W 17 TOWN OF CARRBORO•NC FACING RACE,EMBRACING EQUITY Race and Equity Pocket Ouestions Title and purpose of this initiative: Greene Tract— Community Engagement, Master Plan, and Next Steps. The purpose of this initiative is to receive reports from the consultant teams and staff on the Greene Tract community engagement effort, resultant Master Plan, and next steps towards development of the Greene Tract, and to consider approval of a Resolution. Department: Planning, What are the racial and equity impacts? The 164-acre tract is within Chapel Hill's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction(ETJ) and located on the eastern border of the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood boundary, a historically Black community located in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Roughly 60 acres of the land have been set aside for an Orange County Headwaters Preserve (headwaters of three creeks, Bolin, Booker and Old Field Creek, with the layout of the remaining 104 acres to be identified in this master plan. The engagement process for the plan was designed to be inclusive, encompassing. diversity, race, and equity components and emphasizing input from historically underserved or disenfranchised communities and communities of color. The Community Engagement report is available at https://www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28506/240724_Greene- Tract-Community-Engagement_Updated-Insights-Report?bidld= and details the strategies used to emphasize interests identified by existing residents and neighborhood representatives. The work of the three local government partners, Orange County, Carrboro, and Chapel Hill has proceeded very intentionally to actualize the vision of the 2012 Task Force, which embraced a community first model to address longstanding commitments that had been overlooked in relation to development of the Eubanks Road landfill. Continued attention to these interests has informed the Environmental Assessment completed in 2020 of the Greene Tract identifying road, utility, and land use development layouts and the protection of sensitive ecological areas, including the 60-acre Headwaters Preserve. Development on the tract could have racial impacts; the master plan includes a new community that could include new homes, (with affordable homes and market rate homes of different types), new buildings for businesses, recreative and educational facilities, access to the Preserve, trails, and other natural areas. Streets and related infrastructure to support this level of development, including locations for transit stops, are identified. The master plan includes creation of space for new homes, employment, and businesses, increasing the spaces where existing Rogers Road residents and families can live and work and play within the historic neighborhood, celebration and protection of historic and natural features of the property, separation and protection of existing Rogers Road/Purefoy residents in a design that allows for visual and physical connections and full access. The level of investment and development identified in the master plan could also affect the property values in nearby neighborhoods.