Notice to people with impaired hearing: Interpreter services and/or special equipment are available with five days prior notice.  Please contact the Communications and Public Affairs Department at 968-2743 for services.

Notice to citizens who wish to speak:  Citizens may petition the Council regarding matters germane to Town policies or business but not appearing on the agenda at petition time.  The Council strongly discourages petitions regarding a matter that recently has been, or soon will be before the Council as a public hearing item.  Petition time is not intended to substitute for public hearings.  As a courtesy to others, a citizen speaking on an agenda item or making a petition is normally limited to three minutes.  Persons who are organizing a group presentation and who wish to speak beyond the three minute limit are requested to make prior arrangements through the Mayor’s Office by calling 968-2714. If you wish to address the Council this evening, please go to the front right corner of the Council Chamber and sign up with the Town Clerk. The Council may change the order in which agenda items are presented.

Public Hearings:  Presentations for Concept Plans will be limited to 15 minutes.

Attorneys:  If you are representing a person with an interest in a quasi-judicial proceeding on this agenda and believe you may wish to cross-examine a witness, please identify yourself as such to the Town Clerk.  For the sake of maintaining an accurate public record all speakers must be prepared to speak into an amplified microphone and must provide their name to the Town Clerk.

Agenda items for review: Agenda items are available on the Town’s web site, www.townofchapelhill.org, by 12 noon on Friday before a Council meeting.  Citizens may request copies of agenda items in the Communications and Public Affairs Office at 968-2743 or may view them at the Reference Desk in the Chapel Hill Public Library (100 Library Drive).

Cablecast of Council Meetings:  Council meetings are cablecast live on Chapel Hill TV18, the cable government access channel, and via streaming video at www.townofchapelhill.org (see link to “Council Meeting Video”). Generally, the meetings also are rebroadcast throughout the week.  

Monday, March 16, 2009

7:00 p.m.

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Town Council Business Meeting and Public Hearing

  1. Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force Final Report. (Presenter: Council Members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Strom) (R-1)

    The Council will consider a resolution to accept the report.

  2. Parking Study Recommendations. (Staff Presenter: Dwight Bassett, Interim Director, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership) (R-2)

    The Council will consider a resolution to accept the Parking Study recommendations.

  3. Report on Transportation Impact Analysis related to Carolina North Development. (Staff Presenter: Kumar Neppalli, Engineering Services Manager)

    The Council will receive the report.

  4. Public Forum: Time Warner Cable Service Issues. (Staff Presenter: Catherine Lazorko, Public Information Officer)

    The Council will receive public comments.

  5. Public Hearing: Land Use Management Ordinance Text Amendment - Revised Residential-Special Standard- Conditional Zoning District. (Without objection, the Manager’s Preliminary report and any other materials submitted at the hearing for consideration by the Council will be entered into the record.) (Staff Presenter: J.B. Culpepper, Planning Director)
    1. Introduction and preliminary recommendation by the Manager
    2. Comments by citizens
    3. Comments and questions from the Mayor and Town Council
    4. Motion to recess Public Hearing to March 23, 2009
    5. Referral to Manager and Attorney.

    The Council will receive public comments.

Concept Plan Reviews

Concept Plans: Presentations for Concept Plans will be limited to 15 minutes.

Concept Plan review affords Council members the opportunity to provide individual reactions to the overall concept of the development which is being contemplated for future application. Nothing stated by individual Council members this evening can be construed as an official position or commitment on the part of a Council member with respect to the position they may take when and if a formal application for development is subsequently submitted and comes before the Council for formal consideration.

As a courtesy to others, a citizen speaking on an agenda item is normally limited to three minutes. Persons who are organizing a group presentation and who wish to speak beyond the three minute limit are requested to make prior arrangements through the Mayor’s Office by calling 968-2714.

  1. Concept Plan: Wesley Foundation. (Staff Presenter: Gene Poveromo, Development Manager)
    1. Review of process by the Manager
    2. Presentation by the applicant
    3. Comments from the Community Design Commission
    4. Comments from citizens
    5. Comments and questions from the Mayor and Town Council
    6. Consideration of a resolution transmitting Council comments to the applicant. (R-3)