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The Town of Carrboro Planning Board held a series of three Affordable
Housing Dialogues in October 2012 to educate and engage the public in
planning for affordable housing. A report of their findings
is now available. The chair of the Carrboro Planning Board will be
presenting on this report and the Carrboro Board of Alderfolks will be
discussing it at their meeting tonight (Tuesday, February 19th).
The
recommendations of the report are:
1. Make the
Affordable Housing Task Force a standing committee of the Board of
Aldermen, and expand it to include other public and private
stakeholders, such as advisory boards, affordable housing developers,
and advocates.
2. In that comprehensive policy, consider a
staggered approach to income targeting and goals, such that people along
the income continuum of very low (less than 50% of median income), to
low (50% - 80%) to moderate income (80% - 115%) can benefit in some way
from Carrboro’s policy efforts and investments.
I've noticed that Raleigh and other nearby municipalities are using tools like SeeClickFix.com to help residents connect and use local government. Durham's even using it's own website called http://www.liveworkplaydurham.com/ where folks can post their ideas for improving the community.
As an experiment I threw together this SeeClickFix widget.
This is from Bob Epting -
Dear Friends,
Would you please, please, please take time to go to the link below,as well as my attached letter to the Y Board President, and vote to support our petition asking the Board of Directors either to back up and make the process inclusive, or to call a general membership vote to change the by-laws of the Y, so as to open their Board meetings, and so as to require membership participation in facilities closure determinations.
And would you please send this on to five others, and ask them to send on to five others each.
Next Monday (February 18th),
the Chapel Hill Town Council is holding a public hearing on two major
planning documents for our town: the Parks and Greenways master plans.
As chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, I can tell you that
this day has been long in coming. Work on these plans began over two
years ago, but staff was asked to wait until after the completion of the
Chapel Hill 2020 visioning document to submit them for approval, so the
plans could be as unified in their language as possible. When adopted,
they will be considered part of the Town's comprehensive plan.
As
Chapel Hill continues to grow (with a projected population of 70K by
2025), there is a need to conserve the open space the town has left,
create better connectivity for non-vehicular transportation, and provide
venues for citizens to engage in active, healthy lifestyles. Also, in
most of the assessments that Town has done in the past few years,
citizens have rated trails and recreation opportunities as one of the
Town's biggest needs. With these goals in mind, the two master plans
recommend the following:
Parks master plan recommendations:
The Chapel Hill Town Council held a second public hearing tonight on the rezoning and redevelopment of the University Square/123 West Franklin Street complex. UNC Chancellor Thorp made opening remarks about the redevelopment, calling it key for our downtown and detailing the need for more housing, parking, and green space downtown. Chancellor Thorp remained for the entirety of the two-hour discussion, which ended up being a very fortunate thing.
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