AGENDA
Town Council Planning Session
8:30 a.m. Welcome and review of proposed agenda.
8:40 1. Budget
Issues:
10:00 Break
10:15 2.
Status report on the Council’s Goals for
Implementing the Comprehensive Plan.
a. Review of Goals and Status of Work.
b. Consideration of Schedule Adjustments if desired
by the Council.
Noon Lunch
12:30 p.m. 3. Discussion of Other Issues:
a.
Discussion of
Process for Receiving and Considering Additional Information about the
University’s Carolina North Plans – Mayor Foy.
b.
Tree Ordinance –
Mayor Foy (attached)
c.
Inclusionary
Zoning – Council Member Greene (attached).
d.
Public Dialogue
on Homelessness – Council Member Greene.
e.
Environmental Issues
– Council Member Greene (attached).
f.
Adoption of N.C.
Rehabilitation Code – Council Member Greene (attached).
g.
Updating
Inventory of Historic Resources – Council Member Greene.
h.
Supporting Public
Arts Master Plan – Council Member Greene.
i.
Public Arts Commission
– Council Member Kleinschmidt (attached).
j.
Stormwater
Utility – Council Member Strom.
k.
Street Vendors –
Council Member Strom.
l.
Chapel Hill
Transit’s Future – Council Member Strom.
m.
n.
Fiscal Equity –
Council Member Strom.
o.
Town Fleet
Efficiency – Council Member Strom.
p.
q.
Neighborhood Advocate
– Council Member Ward (attached). See
also attached list of additional items received late Friday, 01-09-04.
r.
Status of
Potential U.S. 15-501 Congestion Solutions – Beyond the Superstreet – Council
Member Harrison (attached).
s.
Status of
t.
Report on Town
Advisory Boards’ Processes for Citizen Comments and Applicant Interviews –
referred by the Council on September 22, 2003 (attached).
2:30 Adjourn
Explanatory Notes:
Council
Member Greene:
3c. Inclusionary
Zoning (see attachment).
3d. A
Public Dialogue on Homelessness: its
root causes; what we can do to address it.
3e. Environmental Issues: revisiting the Tree Ordinance, especially to
ban clearcutting (possibly using
3f. Discussion of adoption of N. C.
Rehabilitation Code (there’s a Statewide pilot project but Chapel Hill is not
in it; this is a version of the building code that makes it easier to renovate
old buildings, like possibly the ones on Franklin Street). (See attachment.)
3g. Updating
inventory of historic resources (especially post-WWII architecture).
3h. Supporting
a public arts master plan.
Council Member Strom:
3j. Stormwater Utility: Discuss Council goals for this new
entity. Make a few policy calls for the
scope of the charge and mission of this “body.”
3k. Street Vendors: Discuss pros and cons of street vendors in
downtown, and process to evaluate proposals for establishing vendors. Coordinate with Public Arts Commission?
3L. Chapel Hill Transit’s Future: Receive data on potential for a Chapel Hill
Transit Master Plan and transit configurations – 20, 40, and 60 years out.
3m. Rosemary Street: Discuss strategies to reduce surface parking
and make property available for redevelopment.
3n. Fiscal
Equity: Open issues between Town and UNC
–
·
fire protection,
·
on-street parking,
·
report from staff
on additional items.
3o. Town Fleet: Set goals for increased gas/fuel
efficiency. Create a
3p.
·
OWASA’s
relationship to Carolina North. Set a policy conversation with OWASA Board.
·
Council process
for the Horace Williams Committee report.
·
Future policy for
Council and Mayoral communication with UNC regarding Horace Williams.
Items
Submitted by Council Member Ward – Friday p.m., 1-09-04
2004 - Council Retreat Agenda
Items – J. Ward
Neighborhood Advocate
position
Parking Lots 2 and 5 –
continue process
Bond Sales – time, amount and
area of use (5-7/10 year plan)
Pay as you throw
Stormwater Utility status
Design Guidelines
LUMO – continue fine tuning
(add/subtract/chg - and address transit oriented zones, use
patterns, etc.
Invasive plant species (list
of species prohibited from use by Town and Dev Proposals…)
Also: a nuisance regulation that applies to
chronic spread of plants into adjacent property…
Town sponsored – walk/bike/bus/carpool
to work day
Bike/Pedestrian education/signage (develop and distribute and
promote)
Tree Protection areas vs
Critical Tree Root Zone Protection assoc’d w/ buffer reqm’ts
Parking study (by Mr. Ray Moe) ?
OWASA – CH Council
relationship
Parks and Rec program on bike safety… for youth and adults
Integrated
and outside insect control… (reduce/eliminate)
Work w/ County re: use of
Transfer and/or Purchase of Dev Rights as a tool to protect
Rural Buffer….
and concentrate density adjacent to urban services
Traffic Calming … protocol
Affordable housing: consider reducing size of some units as a way
to extent public
Funding
(1500 sq ft to 1200 sq ft +/-)
Opportunities for a few
affordable housing units on Town property (review of property
holdings and
possible house sites)
Town-wide Automated External
Defibulator (sp?) (AED) Program
Use of methane gas from Co
Landfill
Increase use of Rosemary
Parking Deck ‘plaza’
Public health concerns
related to stormwater swales, ponds….
Duplex resolution re:
moratorium