SUMMARY MINUTES OF A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE
CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1999 AT 7:00 P.M.
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Rosemary Waldorf at 7:00 p.m.
Council Members present were Flicka Bateman, Joyce Brown, Joe Capowski, Pat Evans, Kevin Foy, and Edith Wiggins. Council Members Julie McClintock and Lee Pavão were absent, excused.
Staff members present were Town Manager Cal Horton, Assistant Town Managers Sonna Loewenthal and Florentine Miller, Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos, Assistant to the Manager Ruffin Hall, Planning Director Roger Waldon, Development Coordinator J.B. Culpepper, Transportation Planner David Bonk, and Acting Clerk Toni Pendergraph.
Hurricane Relief Assistance
Mr. Horton reported on the assistance provided by the various Town departments through the State Hurricane Emergency Response Mutual Aid Assistance to several areas of eastern North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Floyd. He reported that a tree crew had been dispatched to the city of Wilson; one firefighter volunteered to participate with the Swiftwater Rescue Team in the Trenton/Kinston area; a police crisis counselor was called upon for bereavement counseling for families who had lost family members to death; a Building Inspector went to Topsail Beach to help with inspections; an Electrical Inspector will be sent to Goldsboro; the Police Department would send their Special Operations Team to work in the Greenville/Kinston area to provide relief to the Police Departments in those towns; and, because the Highway Patrol would be occupied in the eastern parts of the State, the Chapel Hill Police Department would cover traffic for the football game in Chapel Hill. Mr. Horton said that the Town would be as helpful as possible without providing jeopardy to the Town.
Mayor Waldorf said that people who wanted to help could contact:
NC Hurricane Floyd Disaster Relief Fund
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-0301
1-888-835-9966
Mayor Waldorf said that if anyone wanted to donate items, they should take them to the Red Cross, adding that what was really needed was money. She said that she had talked to the Mayor of Tarboro, and he thanked her and said that they would be assessing what kind of aid they would need. Mayor Waldorf felt it was important that the Town of Chapel Hill and its citizens help in any way they could.
Council Member Evans suggested that maybe the people in the medical community might be able to offer some assistance.
Item 1 – Zoning Atlas Amendment and Special Use Permit
for 1609 East Franklin Street
Roger
Waldon, Planning Director, pointed out that most of the property was zoned
Residential-5, with a small portion in the back abutting Velma Road zoned
Residential-1. He said that the
applicant was requesting that the front portion, the Residential-5, be rezoned
to Neighborhood Commercial-Conditional zoning, leaving the back portion as
Residential-1, which in effect would provide a buffer to the Velma Road
area. Mr. Waldon pointed out that a few
years ago the Council had adopted an East Franklin Street Corridor Study, and
it had concluded that there was a relatively low-intensity residential use on
some of the properties, and what was appropriate was a higher intensity use of
these properties along the corridor, suggesting that a mix of use—residential,
office and limited commercial—would be desirable. He said based on that conclusion, the staff felt that the
proposed rezoning was consistent with the Corridor Study and recommended the
proposed rezoning be approved.
Mr.
Waldon said the request for a Special Use Permit was consistent with the
Corridor Study conclusion for land use. He showed a site plan and described
where the building would be and the parking behind, with a driveway entering
from Franklin Street. He pointed out
that one of the issues important in the Corridor Study was internal access
between properties to eliminate the need to return to Franklin Street to access
another adjacent building area. Mr.
Waldon said the Ballet School had not felt the need for such access, but a
future, different use of that property might indicate a need for internal
access. He said the staff recommended that a vehicular access easement along
the drive aisle to both of the adjacent properties be allowed for future use.
Mr. Waldon said the Planning Board and the Manager recommended that the site be
approved without a pedestrian connection to Velma Road. He said the
Transportation Board and the Walks and Bikeways Commission recommended that a
pedestrian connection be approved.
Council
Member Bateman asked what the amount of buffer at Velma Street was. Mr. Waldon
said that it was substantial with trees and grading, and that a connection
might have to be steps, although not wide. He said the neighbors has requested that
there be no connection.
Tina
Bell, on behalf of Madison Partners, the applicant, thanked the Council and
introduced Dan Jewell, to discuss the landscaping architecture for the
proposal.
Mr.
Jewell said the proposal was designed with the Corridor Study in mind, for
mixed land use. He said they recommended approval of Resolution B, with special
consideration to the language of #5—Access Agreement. He asked for Council guidance to the issue of pedestrian and bicycle
connections from the property to Velma Road.
Gay
Eddy, Planning Board Chair, said that the Board had voted 9-0 to support the
rezoning. She said the Board was favorably impressed with the Special Use
Permit and had talked about two particular issues: one was the connection to
Velma Road and because there did not seem to be too much need for the
connection, the Board did not include this in its recommendation. Ms. Eddy said the other issue was the
vehicular access behind the property, but the Board did not feel it necessary
to demand an easement, but, instead, to let this be something decided by future
owners.
Council
Member Evans said she was pleased that the buffer was going to be retained. She
asked if the staff had looked at the cooperative use of dumpsters. Mr. Waldon
said that the building was the right size to have its own dumpster.
Council
Member Evans suggested a sidewalk be constructed off to the right of the
courtyard.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked if Mr. Waldon was satisfied that people would be able to
enter and exit from the driveway, especially during rush hour. Mr. Waldon said he was, but there might be
some backup during rush hour. He said they had talked about a traffic median,
but when it had been discussed previously, for a past construction, the Council
had decided not to build it.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked Mr. Jewell why the applicant favored Resolution B. Mr.
Jewell said rather than be tied into an easement at the present time, the
applicant felt, as did the Planning Board, that it would be best to allow
future users of all the properties to decide whether they needed connecting
access for the properties.
Council
Member Brown asked Mr. Jewell if he had any specific retail businesses and
office businesses in mind for the property.
Mr. Jewell said there were none specific in mind, other than they would
be very small retail spaces for small businesses, such as a coffee shop. He said that they had not yet started to
solicit tenants for the office spaces.
Council
Member Foy asked if the retail shops would be on the first floor and the
offices on the second. Mr. Jewell said
that was the intent, that probably fifty percent of the first floor would be
retail shops, the remaining part of the first floor and all of the second floor
would be offices.
Council
Member Foy asked if there was any consideration of sharing a driveway with the
Ballet School. Mr. Waldon said when the
Ballet School received its Special Use Permit it was decided that there should
be no easement, so there could not be a sharing of a driveway now. Mr. Horton said that unless the Council
required a butt-out for an easement, there would not be a sharing of
driveways. Mr. Waldon said that if
there was a required easement on the west side of the property there would be a
possibility of sharing a driveway.
Council
Member Foy asked if there had been an estimation of trips provided in the
traffic study. Mr. Waldon said it could be provided for the Council.
Council
Member Brown asked if there was access provided to the east side of the
property, how that would affect access to Franklin Street. Mr. Waldon said he could not answer since he
did not know what the future use of the property would be, but it would leave
open options for the future.
Council
Member Bateman asked where the handicapped parking spaces were located and
where they would be located if the recommendations of the Walks and Bikeways
Commission were approved. Mr. Jewell
indicated the location on a map and said that the recommendations of the Walks
and Bikeways could be accommodated, also.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked Mr. Waldon if he could estimate what the applicant’s
fair share of the cost of installing traffic-controlling devices would be,
should that prove to be necessary for the increased traffic caused by building
businesses at this site. Mr. Waldon said that he would come back with some
figures.
Council
Member Foy asked what kind of connection would be needed if a pedestrian access
was developed to Velma Street. Mayor Waldorf said there was a very steep grade
there and a stairway would have to be built. Council Member Evans added that
there were only a few houses behind and the only other access could possibly be
from the library, which already had its own access way to Franklin Street. Mr.
Waldon said he did not know of any other formal access ways in the area.
COUNCIL
MEMBER EVANS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER FOY, TO REFER THE APPLICATION
FOR A ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT TO THE MANAGER AND THE ATTORNEY. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
COUNCIL
MEMBER FOY MOVED, SECONDED BY MAYOR PRO TEM CAPOWSKI, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 1,
DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY TO BE ALL PROPERTY WITHIN 1000 FEET. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
A RESOLUTION DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY WITH RESPECT TO THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION FOR 1609 EAST FRANKLIN STREET (99-9-22/R-1)
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council, having considered the evidence submitted in the Public Hearing thus far pertaining to the application for Special Use Permit for 1609 East Franklin Street, hereby determines, for purposes of Development Ordinance Section 18.3, Finding of Fact c), contiguous property to the site of the development proposed by this Special Use Permit application to be that property described as follows:
All properties within 1000 feet of the site.
This
the 22nd day of September, 1999.
COUNCIL
MEMBER EVANS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER FOY, TO RECESS THE PUBLIC
HEARING ON THE REZONING AND THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO OCTOBER 11, 1999, AND
REFER IT TO THE MANAGER AND THE ATTORNEY.
THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
Council
Member Foy thanked Madison Partners for the work they did in moving the Andrews
House.
Item 2 – Public Hearing on Special Use Permit Application for Franklin Grove Townhomes
J.B.
Culpepper, Development Coordinator, reported on the application for a Special
Use Permit for a site located on the north side of East Franklin Street,
between Elliott Road and Milton Avenue. She said the application was for a 58
multi-family residential development, to include 53 townhomes and 4 renovated
single-family dwelling units on an 8.7 acre site. She said the property was
mostly located in a Residential-5 zone, with a portion of it in a Residential-4
zoning district, and the area was part of the second East Franklin Street
Corridor Study. Ms. Culpepper said access was proposed to come from both
Elliott Road and from Milton Avenue, and proposed to preserve the trees
fronting on East Franklin Street, one of the key objectives of the East Franklin
Street Corridor Study II. She said the
staff evaluation of the proposal was based on the four findings established by
the Council when looking at these proposals for a Special Use Permit, and the
staff found the proposal was consistent with the findings and the East Franklin
Street Corridor Study II. Ms. Culpepper said the staff recommended adoption of
Resolution A, which would approve the application with conditions.
Mayor
Waldorf asked Ms. Culpepper to elaborate more on the accesses to the site, not
just roads, but bicycle and pedestrian. Ms. Culpepper said there was a sidewalk
on East Franklin Street, and an access from Elliott Road between the bank and
the Jennings building, which had an easement to allow car access, as well as
bikes and pedestrians access, but the access was located on someone else’s
property rather than on the applicant’s.
She said that from Milton Avenue there were sidewalks entering the
property, and there were proposed sidewalks to meander around the trees, which
needed to be protected, on the East Franklin Street frontage.
Eric
Chupp, speaking for the applicant, introduced Scott Kovens and Michael
Flocco. He assured the Council that the
applicant was aware of the unique location proposed for Franklin Grove, in that
the site was positioned at the gateway to Chapel Hill. Mr. Chupp said David
Furman Architecture had been hired to integrate the proposed development into
the existing area, and that Mr. Furman was well known for his excellent work to
infill communities. Mr. Chupp said a creative engineering group, Civil
Consultants, Inc., had been hired to design the technical construction process.
Mr. Chupp discussed the proposed development, including renovation of several
houses on Milton Avenue, to be sold at a moderate price. He said the Corridor
Study had been used as a guideline for the proposal. Mr. Chupp said the main
objective had been to preserve the stand of oak trees on East Franklin Street,
and one result was the determination to put a pathway entrance from East Franklin
Street instead of a road access. He said this proposal was a very good example
of mixed use, and that people could walk to every possible amenity they could
use. Mr. Chupp said the site served as a buffer to the neighborhoods to the
north, and the proposal had the support of these neighborhoods. He said the homes proposed to be built would
be in keeping with the property values of these neighborhoods. Mr. Chupp said all utilities were already
available, making it easy on the tax base. He displayed where the sidewalks
would be located, and said a four-way pedestrian crossing would be located at
the intersection of Franklin Street and Elliott Road. Mr. Chupp
said there were six bus stops located in the area, and that the site was
traffic-friendly. He said the market the applicant was trying to address were
the empty-nesters, so that traffic generation would be less than families with
children. Mr. Chupp said that the applicant was currently under a contract with
Kroger to purchase the property, which will expire in December, and the
applicant would hope for a timely review and approval process. He displayed several drawings of the
proposed development.
Jim
Protzman, resident of Lake Forest, requested that the Council reject the
Franklin Grove proposal. He said the community did not need to meet higher
property values, but needed to be an affordable, one-car garage,
transit-dependent development, and that the trees must be protected.
Barbara
Rodbell, resident of the area of Coker Hills and Forest Hills, said she agreed
with Mr. Protzman, but said that she and her neighbors supported the
applicant’s proposal for development of the site. She said they had worried
about what would become of the Kroger property and were pleased with the
proposal. Ms. Rodbell said they worried about the sidewalk near the fire
station.
Dan
McCaulith thanked the developer for calling a neighborhood meeting of the Coker
Hills, Oxford Hills, and Lake Forest area, and said there was great support in
these neighborhoods for the proposed development. He said they were very
concerned about the traffic in the area and that the development fit the
concerns of the Corridor Study. Mr. McCaulith said the two concerns to aid
pedestrian crossing would be to have pedestrian access by placing islands in
the center of the street or to have all-way stop signals so that people could
cross the street.
Gay
Eddy, Planning Board Chair, said the Planning Board voted 9-0 in support of the
application. She said the Board had spent a lot of time talking about the
safety of pedestrians and bicyclists and recommended that the curve in the road
to the north be left as is, rather than straightened, as recommended by the
staff.
Rudolph
Juliano, a resident of Coker Hills, said he felt that the proposed development
was a considerable improvement over having a Kroger food store on the property.
He said he would like to know what mechanisms the Council had to ensure the
preservation of the trees on the property. Ms. Culpepper responded that there
was now in place a process that involved the required on-site certification of
a landscape protection supervisor, and part of the pre-construction process was
the requirement that the developer be required to attend a class and be
certified to be on the site while construction activity occurred. She said that
the staff would keep a close eye and
work with the developer to protect the stand of trees.
Council
Member Brown asked if this process had been used before, and, if so, where, and
how well had it worked. Ms. Culpepper said that it had been in place for a
number of years. Mr. Horton said the first application would be the
installation of the tree-fencing to protect the trees, and the Urban Forester
had to inspect the site and give approval.
Marc
LeBranche, resident of Coker Hills, said the neighbors had been impressed with
the plan for the project. He said the remaining concerns would be the
intersection of Franklin Street and Elliott Road and the traffic impact, adding
that the intersection would have to be re-engineered for traffic and pedestrian
crossing.
Ms.
Culpepper said that Resolution A stipulated that pedestrian signals be provided
at all four corners of the Franklin Street/Elliott Road intersection and a
protected left turn from both directions on Elliott Road.
Scott
Kovens, the applicant, said another measure of protection of the trees would be
the placement of old telephone poles near the trees to prevent trucks from
backing into the trees.
Council
Member Foy asked the applicant to consider making the renovated houses more
affordable and deed-protected. He said there was too much parking, since it was
supposed to be a pedestrian-friendly project. Council Member Foy asked the
applicant to look at the suggested number of parking spaces again. Mr. Chupp
said that the requirement of two spaces per unit was part of the Development
Ordinance.
Council
Member Foy said the developer should try to be creative to reduce the parking
spaces, in order to reduce the number of cars.
Council
Member Brown said she was confused by contradictory statements about the
stormwater management and where it would drain. Mr. Chupp said that was his
error and clarified the two areas of drainage.
Council
Member Brown asked the staff to bring back to the Council where the stormwater
would go when it went under the streets, and some idea of the natural
depression. She asked the staff to
clarify whether the stormwater drainage would be within the recreation
area. Mr. Horton said he would ask the
applicant to clarify the details.
Council
Member Brown asked that the staff address the concerns expressed by Mr.
Protzman. Mayor Waldorf asked that the applicant address Mr. Protzman’s
concerns, especially on the matter of density, in writing, so the Council could
have a discussion on these concerns.
Council
Member Brown also asked the staff what was happening to the mixture of housing
proposal the Council had returned to the staff and if there was any
relationship between the proposal and Mr. Protzman’s concerns. Mr. Horton said
that proposal was returning to the Council at its next meeting.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked what the price of the townhouses would be. Mr. Chupp
said he speculated that they would start in the range of $250,000. He said the
land price for the site was over $175,000 per acre, so the idea of affordable
housing on this land was negligible. He said the goal of preserving the trees
on the front of the site limited the amount of density on the property, and the
only way to accomplish maximum density on the property would be through
multi-family housing, which would entail parking lots, which would entail
cutting the trees down, and building three- or four-story buildings, which
would completely invalidate the East Franklin Street Corridor Study.
Mayor
Waldorf asked Mr. Chupp if he could make a specific projection of what
percentage of the townhomes would be around $250,000. Mr. Chupp said the units
built along the back of the site would be smaller, and the others would range
in price as to what size a buyer wanted in the townhomes, probably $350,000 and
up.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked how many bedrooms the applicant planned to build. Mr.
Chupp said the older buyers, which they intended to market to, generally
preferred two bedrooms and a study or a den.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski said that if the townhomes were sold as student housing, then
the number of parking spaces would be inadequate. He asked Ms. Culpepper to
report back to the Council on what could be built on the site and how many
parking spaces would be required with the type of tenants who might be living
in the townhomes. Mr. Kovens said these
parking problems existed in other communities, and the applicant was trying to
solve them by having covenants in the bylaws of the homeowners’ associations.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked Mr. Kovens if he would be willing to accept a condition
in the Special Use Permit that he would sell the units to people who would
limit the number of automobiles that could be parked there. Mayor Waldorf asked
Mr. Kovens to write his response for the next public hearing.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked if the applicant would be willing to accept a condition
in the Special Use Permit to install underground utilities. Mr. Chupp answered
yes.
Council
Member Evans said she was encouraged that most of the trees would survive. She
said she was in favor of street trees, but not necessarily crape myrtles. She
asked what the cost was of the four-way signals. Mr. Chupp said he did not
know.
Council
Member Evans asked if the applicant would be willing to install a traffic
crossing signal on Franklin Street for the Greenway. Mr. Chupp said they would
investigate the cost.
Council
Member Brown asked the staff to give the Council information about what could
happen in the future as far as development within the development and what
guarantees there would be for preservation of the trees, in the future, if this
project was approved and built.
COUNCIL
MEMBER BROWN MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER EVANS, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 2,
DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY TO BE ALL PROPERTY WITHIN 1000 FEET OF THE
SITE. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED
UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
A RESOLUTION DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY WITH RESPECT TO THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION FOR FRANKLIN GROVE TOWNHOMES (99-9-22/R-2)
BE
IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council, having
considered the evidence submitted in the Public Hearing thus far pertaining to
the application for Special Use Permit for Franklin Grove Townhomes, hereby
determines, for purposes of Development Ordinance Section 18.3, Finding of Fact
c), contiguous property to the site of the development proposed by this Special
Use Permit application to be that property described as follows:
All properties within 1000 feet of the site.
This the 22nd day of September, 1999.
COUNCIL
MEMBER EVANS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WIGGINS, TO RECESS THE PUBLIC
HEARING UNTIL OCTOBER 11, 1999, AND REFER THE APPLICATION TO THE MANAGER. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
Item 3 – Public Hearing on Special Use Permit Modification Application
for the Britthaven Health Care Parking Lot Addition
Mr.
Horton said the application came to the Council in an unusual circumstance. He
said the applicant had acquired a permit to proceed with development on the
property at an earlier time and had carried out some development, and then,
without a permit, had carried out additional development. He said the staff had
discussions with the applicant about their violation and explained to them
their options for proceeding. The applicant chose to prepare an application for
consideration by the Council.
J.B.
Culpepper, Development Coordinator, said in 1991 the Town Council had approved
rezoning the property and a 59,000 square foot facility, with a limit on the
parking spaces. She said that sometime after 1992, the parking lot was expanded
behind the building, and this was discovered by the Public Works Department.
Ms. Culpepper said the staff notified the applicant of the violation, and they
submitted an after-the-fact Special Use Permit Modification request. She said
the application before the Council was not what was actually on the ground at
the present time, but a scaled-back proposal to put in a parking lot that would
meet the Town’s standards, to a 22-space addition request. Ms. Culpepper said
the staff recommended approval of Resolution A. She said the applicant’s
offices were in Greenville, N.C., and due to the flooding from Hurricane Floyd
they were unable to be present for the hearing, but asked that the hearing proceed
without them.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked the Town Attorney if there was any reason why the public
hearing should not proceed without the applicant being present. Mr. Karpinos
said there was no reason why the public hearing could not go ahead. He said the
applicant would have a chance to answer any questions raised at the next public
hearing scheduled to review the application.
Council
Member Bateman asked if the manager was the same manager as in 1991. Ms.
Culpepper said it was the same company, but with a different group of people in
management.
Council
Member Foy said he was confused by the paragraph on page 13, under Watershed
Protection. Ms. Culpepper said that the State-mandated Watershed Protection
District did not take affect until 1993, and the impervious surface requirement
was not in affect in 1992, so the property was “grandfathered.” She said the requirement of impervious
surface did go beyond the number where an applicant would be required to have
on-site wet detention, which had been there prior to the expansion of the
property, although it was not in the same location.
Mayor
pro tem Capowski asked if the impervious surface would be reduced if Resolution
A was approved. Ms. Culpepper said that was correct—reduced from what had been
put in without a permit.
COUNCIL
MEMBER FOY MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 3,
DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY TO BE ALL PROPERTY WITHIN 1500 FEET. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
A RESOLUTION DETERMINING CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY WITH RESPECT TO THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT MODIFICATION APPLICATION FOR BRITTHAVEN OF CHAPEL HILL (99-9-22/R-3)
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council, having considered the evidence submitted at the Public Hearing thus far pertaining to the application for Special Use Permit Modification for Britthaven of Chapel Hill hereby determines, for purposes of Development Ordinance Section 18.3, Finding of Fact c), contiguous property to the site of the development proposed by this Special Use Permit Modification application to be that property described as follows:
All properties within 1500 feet of the site.
This the 22nd day of September, 1999.
COUNCIL
MEMBER EVANS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER FOY, TO RECESS THE HEARING UNTIL
OCTOBER 11, 1999. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. (7-0).
COUNCIL
MEMBER WIGGINS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER EVANS, TO REQUEST THE STAFF TO
PREPARE AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT REQUIRING APPLICANTS FOR AFTER-THE-FACT SPECIAL
USE PERMIT MODIFICATIONS TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL APPLICATION FEE. THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
Item 4 – Public
Hearing on Draft 2025 Current Trend Regional Transportation Plan
David
Bonk, Transportation Planner, said the plan had been prepared as an interim
Regional Transportation Plan in order to ensure that there would be no
interruption in the transit operating assistance and capital projects. He said
the Plan was referred to as “Current Trend Plan” and was not designed to
replace the Comprehensive 2025 Plan which was still under development. Mr. Bonk
said the Current Trend Plan had been developed at the direction of the Council
in order that the Town avoid the loss of federal transit operating assistance,
and to endorse the concept of adopting an interim Regional Transportation Plan.
Council
Member Foy asked if one of the roads on the display map went through
Meadowmont. Mr. Bonk said that the map displayed roads which would be publicly
and privately funded. He said the map assumed that the road through Meadowmont
would eventually go through to U.S. 15-501, with four lanes at either end of
the road.
COUNCIL
MEMBER FOY MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER EVANS, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 4. THE
MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO TAKE ACTIONS TO AVOID THE LOSS OF FEDERAL OPERATING ASSISTANCE (99-9-22/R-4)
WHEREAS, the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Urban area has begun work on a 2025 Regional Transportation Plan; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Transportation has imposed sanctions on the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Urban area for failure to have a conforming long range transportation plan; and
WHEREAS, failure to approve a Transportation Plan for the Urban Area by November, 1999 will prohibit Chapel Hill Transit from receiving federal transit operating assistance; and
WHEREAS, approval of a comprehensive draft 2025 Transportation Plan by November, 1999 is doubtful; and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the adoption of an Alternative 2025 Transportation Plan could be completed by November, 1999 and allow continuation of federal operating assistance,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Council authorizes the Mayor to take whatever actions are necessary as the Town’s representative to the Transportation Advisory Committee to avoid delay or loss of federal operating funds; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council supports the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee proceeding with the development and adoption of an Alternative 2025 Transportation Plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Transportation Advisory Committee develop a schedule for the completion of the comprehensive 2025 Transportation Plan that includes the completion of a final draft Plan by June, 2000.
This the 22nd day of September, 1999.
COUNCIL
MEMBER EVANS MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER FOY, TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. THE
MOTION WAS ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY (7-0).
The
meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m.