to: Mayor and Town Council
from: Chapel Hill Planning Board
subject: Petition to Request Financial Support to Hire a Professional Facilitator for the Glen Lennox Area Neighborhood
date: September 8, 2008
The Planning Board petitions that the Council, as part of the informational phase of Phase I of the consideration of a Neighborhood Conservation District for the Glen Lennox Area neighborhood, financially support the hiring of a facilitator to further the Council’s objective for a facilitated, constructive dialogue between the property owners.
On June 25, 2008, the Council adopted a resolution to accept the petition to initiate the informational phase, Phase One of the Neighborhood Conservation District Process. The resolution included the instruction to the Planning Board and the Planning Department “to structure the process in a manner that will facilitate a constructive dialogue between the property owners and the neighbors beyond just the Public Information Meeting described in the Land Use Management Ordinance.”
On August 19, 2008, the Planning Board approved the attached resolution that outlined the components of the Glen Lennox Area Neighborhood Conservation District Public Information Meeting and also requested “that the Council, as part of the informational phase, financially support the Council’s objective for a facilitated, constructive dialogue between the property owners of the neighborhood in Phase One of the consideration of a Neighborhood Conservation District.”
The Planning Department provided the Board with a Facilitated Discussion Proposal from the Dispute Settlement Center of Orange County that estimated the cost to be approximately $10,000. Please see Attachment 2 for this proposal.