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W 18 <br /> TOWN OF CARRBORO•NC <br /> FACING RACE,EMBRACING EQUITY <br /> Who is or will experience community burden? <br /> Individuals who prefer that the property is left largely as is will experience burden. The plan <br /> includes extensive development of a property that has been used at low intensity, without homes <br /> or fields or electricity or vehicle travel for many decades. Trees and associated understory, soils <br /> and other geologic materials will be removed and reshaped to implement the plan. Individuals <br /> who agree with this version of the master plan could experience burden should the master plan in <br /> some way be infeasible to implement changing the types and number of features identified by the <br /> community (e.g. affordable homes,jobs/business spaces). <br /> Who is or will experience community benefit? <br /> Residents will benefit from the increased number of spaces for homes, businesses,jobs, closer <br /> proximity to a school site, trails and natural areas. <br /> The Master Plan development process has prioritized historically marginalized and <br /> disenfranchised communities, including the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood. This <br /> prioritization has identified them as key stakeholders with agency to explore the types of benefits <br /> they hope to see from future land uses. These could include resources such as pedestrian access <br /> to recreational and educational facilities, open space, and low intensity commercial and maker <br /> spaces that supplement the RENA Community Center. <br /> What are the root causes of inequity? <br /> Root causes of inequity can be related to discrimination that limited or prevented access to <br /> spaces and services based on race, or, as in the case of the historic Rogers Road neighborhood, <br /> involved the landfill siting on Eubanks Road. <br /> What might be the unintended consequences of this action or strategy? <br /> An unintended consequence of the master plan could be that some interests are not sufficiently <br /> addressed in the design and the potential of this property to serve community interests is not fully <br /> realized. An unintended consequence from long-term development might be changes to property <br /> values, affordability and/or character of nearby neighborhoods and properties. Increased <br /> investment and development of new utilities and infrastructure could increase property values <br /> could add to generational wealth of owners and also result in increased living costs for existing <br /> residents and lead to gentrification and displacement. Another unintended consequence may be <br /> new stressors from the development processes and change in use on ecologically sensitive lands <br /> like streams and riparian buffers as well as the totality of the ecosystem services (trees, soils, <br /> understory plants, flowers, pollinators, and related) provided by the property in its current <br /> condition. <br /> How is your department planning to mitigate any burdens, inequities, and unintended <br /> consequences? To keep the momentum going on this effort, next steps are already queued up. <br /> Proceeding with a financial feasibility analysis has begun and the process of receiving <br />