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 [Phil Boyle Document, Council Retreat 2008].

Assumptions

Council Identified Assumptions:

• *Mixed use development is best [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *Development is done in partnership with private investors and their decisions are market driven [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *Our commitment is to transit-oriented development and development will happen along transit corridors [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• ---*People ‘want’ to live in higher density development [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• ---*Families ‘want’ to live in single-family homes [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *More than half of Chapel Hill’s residents work somewhere else [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *Growth rates will be constant, a straight line [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *UNC will remain a premier institution [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *Preserving a rural buffer is important [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *The Council can impose change on behavior – parking, for example [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
• *Families with children will put pressure on schools [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].

Comprehensive Plan Goal Assumptions:

• *The Town should maintain the Urban Services/Rural Buffer Boundary [Comp Plan, Theme 1].
• *The Town should participate in the regional planning process [Comp Plan, Theme 2].
• *The Town should conserve and protect existing neighborhoods [Comp Plan, Theme 3].
• *The Town should conserve and protect the natural setting of Chapel Hill [Comp Plan, Theme 4].
• *The Town should identify areas where there are creative development opportunities [Comp Plan, Theme 5].
• *The Town should encourage desirable forms of non-residential development [Comp Plan, Theme 6].
• *The Town should create and preserve affordable housing opportunities [Comp Plan, Theme 7].
• *The Town should cooperatively plan with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Comp Plan, Theme 8].
• *The Town should work toward a balanced transportation system [Comp Plan, Theme 9].
• *The Town should complete the bikeway/greenway/sidewalk systems [Comp Plan, Theme 10].
• *The Town should provide quality community facilities and services [Comp Plan, Theme 11].
• *The Town should develop strategies to address fiscal issues [Comp Plan, Theme 12].

*    Indicates an assumption that is repeated throughout the six strategic prioritized goal areas

Indicates two opposing assumptions