ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR AGENDA #6
Cal Horton
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:16 PM
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Subject: RE: Kehillah and Chapel Hill need permit for extra parking
Ms. Kane:
Thank you for letting me know of your interests, concerns and opinions regarding the development application submitted by the Chapel Hill Kehillah that now is under consideration by the Town Council. Our duty as staff to the Council is to determine as best we can whether the specifics of an application conform to the Town’s established ordinances and policies. The Council has the authority in certain circumstances defined by the Land Use Management Ordinance to modify ordinance provisions for a particular application, if the Council concludes that public purposes are satisfied to an equivalent or greater degree by the applicant’s proposal. I am certain that the Council will consider modifications requested by the applicant in this case.
I have forwarded your message to the Town Council for its consideration. Thank you for taking time to express your views.
Sincerely,
Cal Horton
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W. Calvin Horton
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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:52 PM
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Subject: Kehillah and Chapel Hill need permit for extra parking
February 6, 2006
Cal
Horton, Town Manager
Town of Chapel Hill, NC
Dear Mr. Horton,
I am writing as a member of the Chapel Hill Kehillah and as someone who has gone before the Town Council due to the force of circumstances.
I certainly hope you know that I respect your opinions a lot, Mr. Horton, because I have often seen you bringing a discussion back to practical reality.
Thus I hope that you will advise the Town Council to permit the Kehillah to rent their excess parking spaces on Mason Farm Road.
For many years I’ve thought that all religious institutions should pay real estate tax, since they rightly do not pay income tax, but all do use city infrastructure. However, religious institutions are by law exempt from property tax.
So I can understand a bit your desire to press the Kehillah to provide the sidewalk that is apparently required with the parking-spaces permit. However, I know that the Kehillah cannot possibly afford tens of thousands of dollars expense. The building still has a large mortgage which must be paid.
Meanwhile, the approximately 20 parking spaces that UNC Hospital employees might rent will be left unused while employees are asking for a reasonably-priced place to park convenient to the hospital. And the Kehillah will be lacking an amount of monthly income which other such places in Chapel Hill sometimes simply attract privately and quietly.
Since I am told that none of the town Advisory Boards opposes this plan, and because I know that I myself would be able to walk to UNC Hospital from the Kehillah unless I had a physical infirmity, I believe strongly that voting for a permit for the Kehillah rental parking spaces without sidewalk or bus-stop or other such unconnected requirements would be a benefit to the public as well as to the Kehillah.
Thank you for your serious consideration of this request.
With best regards,
Lynne Kane
Chapel Hill resident, Kehillah member
Tel. 960-0983