3. Continue Focus on Land Use, Transit and Development

Make Chapel Hill a better place to live, work, learn, and play; a more diverse community; and a more sustainable community.

Assumptions

• To be determined

Strategies & Strategy Areas

• Define where we want to go with growth
• Conduct regular Comprehensive Plan updates
• Address building up vs. single-family housing, residence vs. where people work and drive
• Connect planning assumptions and trends, e.g., water, environment, climate
• Address development pressures on buffers
• Enhance town capacity to achieve goals and initiatives, e.g., dark sky – how, when?
• Define how the town “fits” into the larger metropolitan area
• Determine how to institutionalize sustainability, i.e., resilient infrastructure, drastic environmental conditions
• Examine the Land Trust as it relates to affordable housing and maintenance
• Consider larger community education regarding issues, challenges, solutions
• Pay for improvements through land use/development process
• Address renovation and repair needs
• Better define role and relationship with county for EMS
• Take a strategic approach to identifying and addressing cross-cutting impacts, e.g., impact of higher density development on policing
• Track cumulative impacts of development on capacity
• Define transit’s role in development
  
  

Priority Project/Initiative

• To be determined

Key Indicators

• To be determined