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].
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].
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*People ‘want’ to live in
higher density development [Council Work Session Feb, 2008].
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*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