ATTACHMENT 8
GOALS FOR THE NC
54 EAST ENTRANCEWAY
(Component of Town
of Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan)
In order to address urban sprawl and achieve sustainable
development which incorporates a mix of uses at a pedestrian scale and which
strengthens the environmental, social, and economic fabric of our community,
the Town Council adopts the following goals for inclusion as a component of the
Comprehensive Plan as it relates to the East Entranceway area of Chapel Hill.
Incorporate a mix of uses including a variety of residential
types balanced with neighborhood/community retail, services, and office uses in
an integrated development pattern. The office, retail, and housing should not
be in large separate zones on the north side of NC 54, but should instead be
mixed in fine grains.
Where practical and appropriate to the site, a mix of uses
would:
- Ensure the availability of safe,
sanitary, decent, and well-designed affordable housing. The developers of this
housing, whether owner-purchased or rental, shall conform with the income
guidelines as stated in the Comprehensive Plan. NA
- Include a variety of housing types
within each neighborhood to accommodate low, moderate, and upper income levels,
as well as single dwellers and a variety of residential types and sizes. NA
- Include small apartment units,
townhouses, single-family houses, and garage apartments on a neighborhood
level. NA
- Include office and retail located within ¼ mile of most dwellings
in a neighborhood area. Conforms with spirit and
intent eventhough facility will serve people outside immediate area.
- Incorporate the office and retail components within neighborhoods
in a scale to fit the neighborhoods; for example, with two to three story
buildings with living units on the top floors. Conforms
with neighborhood scale other parts of goals NA.
- Limit the office and retail components to accommodate primarily
the neighborhood needs. NA
- Cluster development so as to provide green space for preservation
and community gathering places. NA
- Neighborhoods are designed with narrow
streets and accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists on most streets where
practical and appropriate to the site. NA
- Office and retail developments are integrated into the
neighborhood designs with accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists on most
streets. Conforms with neighborhood design concept and accommodations for
pedestrians and bicyclists.
- The nature of the business should appeal to pedestrian traffic. NA
Develop in such a way that encourages reductions in the
number of automobile trips per household per day and that provides choices of
routes to users of motor vehicles, as well as transit alternatives to the
single occupant vehicle. Location on existing
transit route and the development’s close proximity
to two bus stops and the new adjacent greenway should provide encouragement and
choices of routs and transportation means to and from facility.
- Provide an internal transportation
network within new developments based on a grid pattern appropriate to the
topography rather than a cul-de-sac pattern.
- Streets and parking should be designed
to promote easy, safe pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and to inhibit fast
traffic in both the residential and retail/office segments of the
neighborhoods.
- Neighborhoods, including the
office/retail segments, should be built so as not to impinge unduly on the tranquility
of already existing neighborhoods.
- Promote transit facilities, including
preserving the potential for regional transit in this corridor.
Develop at densities that allow for the preservation of the
meadows, natural areas, green space, and designation of land for public
facilities such as schools, parks, greenways, and other possible infrastructure
needs. NA
- Preserve, restore, and enhance natural pastoral landscapes and
vistas generally as depicted in the 1988 Entranceway Plan, taking into account
actual terrain.
- Maintain and reinforce ridge lines and
edges of the meadows.
- Accept higher densities in interior of
properties to assure preservation of the meadows and green space without any
buildings.
- Accept higher densities in least
environmentally sensitive areas to allow for watershed protection.
- Accept higher densities in least
environmentally sensitive areas to prevent wetlands disturbance for recreation
or residential or office/retail buildings.
- Coordinate location and design of
transportation facilities with entranceway landscapes.
Other infrastructure needs include
the following:
- Develop a main collector road north of
NC 54 and designate it as a transit corridor.
- Avoid placing driveways on the main
collector road. The development eliminates
the existing
driveway on NC 54
- Identify and reserve sites for possible
infrastructure needs including a school with adjacent community park, fire
station, or other Town facilities.
- Incorporate greenways to preserve
stream areas and provide recreational opportunities.
- Develop greenways to connect to
recreational facilities. Expands greenway
development
- Develop a range of public parks: Small (5 acres or less),
Neighborhood (5-20 acres), Community (20 acres or more) with a variety of
recreational facilities.