DOWNTOWN SMALL AREA PLAN IMPLEMENTATION STATUS

SUMMARY TABLE

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1. Redevelopment and Preservation Opportunities 

1.1  Allow and encourage varying use and intensity patterns through zoning

 

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1.2  Establish entity for downtown recruitment

 

 

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1.3  Encourage development of grocery store

 

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1.4  Develop plan for regulating appearance

 

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1.5  Conduct historic significance study

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1.6  Create awareness programs on historic features

 

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1.7  Place historic markers at sites

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1.8  Conduct tours of historic places

 

 

 

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1.9  Work with UNC on unified approach to town/gown development

 

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1.10 Create additional procedural standards for redevelopment in preservation areas

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2. DESIGN GUIDELINES

 

 

 

 

2.1  Adopt Design Guidelines that are specific to the Town Center

 

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2.2  Community Design Commission enforcement of  Downtown Design Guidelines

 

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3. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS 

3.1  Shorten time frame for review and approval of downtown projects

 

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*Preservation Society has conducted tours in conjunction with Downtown Commission. Tours are not presently being conducted.


 


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3.2  Shorten the development review period for special use permits in Town Center

 

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4. TOWN PARKING LOT NUMBER 5

4.1  Consider issuing Request for Proposals to develop Parking Lot #5

 

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5. PHYSICAL MODEL

5.1  Create physical model or computer model of downtown

 

 

 

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6. STREETSCAPE FUNDING

6.1  Complete improvements proposed in Downtown Streetscape Master Plan within five years

 

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6.2  Consider locating overhead utility wires underground, expanding Streetscape Plan, permitting parking on Franklin in front of University Square

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7. PARKING

7.1  Create  information collection and monitoring system on downtown parking

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7.2  Evaluate annually the short-term use of public and private parking downtown by UNC employees and students

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7.3  Reexamine Town policies regarding off-street parking spaces and payment-in-lieu option

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7.4  Design new parking facilities to include active street-level uses

 

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8. REFUSE COLLECTION

8.1  Size refuse and recycling pick-up equipment to service downtown's tight spaces

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8.2  Encourage development to be designed to allow ease of refuse pickup and screen refuse collection areas

 

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8.3  Identify possible sites for joint pick-up and compacting

 

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8.4  Expand service alley system, including the use of service easement.

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8.5  Develop plan for management of delivery trucks

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8.6  Provide sufficient and appropriately designed containers for refuse disposal

 

 

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