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Comprehensive Plan

Excerpt from Summary: This Comprehensive Plan is designed to respond to that challenge by setting a positive course for Chapel Hill's future. Based on an analysis of where Chapel Hill is today, the Plan articulates a vision and directions in which we want the community to move. It suggests the ways in which we can invest in our community and build value for the 21st century. And, most importantly, the Plan focuses on specific actions that will help us achieve the future we desire.

The Plan is organized around 12 major themes, each growing out of the community values that have been identified and which, taken together, form a strategy for Chapel Hill's future. These themes are:
  • Maintain the Urban Services Area/Rural Buffer Boundary
  • Participate in the regional planning process
  • Conserve and protect existing neighborhoods
  • Conserve and protect the natural setting of Chapel Hill
  • Identify areas where there are creative development opportunities
  • Encourage desirable forms of non-residential development
  • Create and preserve affordable housing opportunities
  • Cooperatively plan with the University of North Carolina
  • Work toward a balanced transportation system
  • Complete the bikeway / greenway / sidewalk systems
  • Provide quality community facilities and services
  • Develop strategies to address fiscal issues

 

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- Cover (200 KB)

-Table of Contents and Sec. 1 thru Sec. 7 (464 KB)

- Sec. 8 thru 14 (490 KB)

- Land Use Plan Map (download pdf version)

- Action Plan Summary  (37KB)

- Appendices and Index (211 KB)

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