Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 05-01-2008-3eORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 1, 2008 Action Agenda Item No. ~_ ~ __ SUBJECT: Rogers Road Community Enhancement Task Force -Recommendations DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Recommended Enhancements Recommended Historic Rogers Road Enhancement Area Map INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 PURPOSE: To present for Board of County Commissioners' consideration the Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task Force's recommended Historic Rogers Road Enhancement Area Map delineation and list of proposed community enhancements. BACKGROUND: At the May 3, 2007 BOCC meeting the BOCC created the Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task Force. The purpose of the Task Force was to develop and forward to the Orange County Board of Commissioners a proposed plan, including financing options, for enhancements in the historic Rogers Road Community. The Task Force was also charged with recommending the geographical size/parameters of the Historic Rogers Road community, for which the recommended enhancements would be provided The Task Force has met seven times, with the first meeting held on June 6 and the most recent meeting on November 12. A June 26, 2007 interim report was provided. At the September 12 Task Force meeting the attached map was adopted by consensus and is being recommended to the BOCC for consideration. At the November 12 meeting the Task Force adopted a final list of community enhancement recommendations. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There will be a substantial financial impact related to implementation of many of the Task Force's. community enhancement recommendations. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the Historic Rogers Road Task Force's Recommended Historic Rogers Road Enhancements -and Area Map. Memorandum To: Board of County Commissioners Through: Laura Blackmon, County Manager From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management Director Subject: Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Pian Development and Monitoring Task Force Final Recommendations -Neighborhood Enhancement List and Area Designation Date: April 24, 2008 At the November 12, 2007 meeting of the Rogers Road Community Enhancement Task Force the list of community enhancement recommendations was finalized and recommended to be presented to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration and implementation. The list is presented below: la. Do not use Eubanks Road as a site for the transfer station. Leave the Solid Waste Convenience Center at its current location on the north side of Eubanks Road. Upgrade the convenience center waste containers to enclosed waste containers as soon as possible.. This will help reduce odor and the number of rodents escaping into the Rogers and Eubanks Roads communities. Orange County lb. Extend water and sewer mains be extended to provide public service to the recently endorsed Rogers Road Community Enhancement Area, (which is the landfill impacted area), including Ms. Nunn's property, at no cost to any of the residents. The Task Force further recommends that water and sewer connections and OWASA impact fees for these connections be provided to the Rogers Road Community Enhancement area at no cost to any of the residents. Orange County, Chapel Hiil, and Carrboro should utilize Community Development Block Grants, other grants, or local funds where allowed by state law to pay for adding water and/or sewer mains, house connections, and OWASA impact fees. Chapel Hili, Carrboro, Orange County and OWASA 2. Reduce the odor from the landfill and convenience center now! ! Pursue a masking agent atomization for landfill working face. Complete landfill leachate sewer project to eliminate leachate storage basin as soon as possible. Confer with OWASA and utilize best management practices for the landfill industry to control odor and vermin.. For finance: lease the landfill areas to a private company that can harvest the methane gas for profit and to help in odor reduction. Orange County and Chapel Hill Build a barrier wall (beginning with below the surface of the ground) to impede stop rodents and other animals from leaving or entering the landfill and to decrease noise, improve air quality. Plant more trees and other vegetation to obscure the view of the landfill mount. Orange County and Chapel Hili 4. The Task Force recommends that water and sewer mains be extended to provide public service to all of the Task Force recommended Community Enhancement Area (map attached), including Ms. Nunn's property. The Task for also recommends that Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro provide public water and sewer in the Community Enhancement Area where water and sewer service are to be extended in paying the costs of connecting to water and sewer. This assistance can take the form of Community Development Block Grants, other grants, or local funds where allowed by state law. Costs for all residents should be eliminated or minimized to the extent possible. Chapel Hill, Orange County, Carrboro, and OWASA Institute a moratorium on property taxes. Pay for/subsidize future taxes for the residents in the community enhancement area for as long as any solid waste facilities remain in their community. Pay impact stipend to property owners whose land is adjacent to the landfills. Be vigilant about not allowing residents to lose their homes and/or property because of their inability to pay taxes; advocate for residents who become at risk of losing their homes and/or land due to inability to pay property taxes. Return property taxes paid from the time of the opening of the landfills. (This would include Millhouse Road residents.) Orange County 6. Build park and other recreation facilities within the Rogers Road Community Enhancement Area such as basketball and park type equipment: jungle gym, swings, picnic tables, benches. The Parks and Recreation Department should maintain these facilities. Children within the Enhancement Area should be provided summer youth employment opportunities. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County 7. Add NCDOT traffic calming bumps on Rogers Road and decrease speed limit to 25 mph. The Task Force recommends that Orange County erect "Children Playing" and "School Bus Stop" signs on Rogers Road. Residents of the Community Enhancement Area will identify appropriate locations for these signs. Chapel Hill Orange County, Carrboro, and DOT 8. Add sidewalks to both sides Rogers Road from Homestead Road to Eubanks Road. Chapel Hill and Carrboro 9. Widen Eubanks Road and add shoulders and turn lanes at landfill facilities. These areas are extremely unsafe and congested-especially in the mornings. Given the garbage and UPS trucks and city buses, Eubanks Road is too narrow to be safe. Chapel Hill Orange County, Carrboro and DOT 10. Bring the bus service down Rogers Road at least three times (morning, noon and evening). The Task Force also recommends that Chapel Hill Transit re-route the North-South connector bus 2 '"1 line to serve Rogers Road on either its northbound or southbound trip, beginning as soon as possible. For the duration of the 2007/2008 service year, the Community Enhancement Area should be designated as a Shared Ride Feeder Zone. Build an enclosed and lighted waiting area at the bus stops. Chapel Hili and Carrboro . 11. Add publicly financed street lights for public roads and streets. Chapel Hili and Carrboro 12. Add fire hydrant north of Edgar Street, between the properties of Tim and Edward Peppers and Nola Mae West. This hydrant will service properties that presently are more than 400 feet and as far as 1500 feet from a fire hydrant. Chapel Hiii 13. Modify building, zoning, and other ordinances that make it difficult/impossible for landowners in the Community Enhancement Area to develop their property. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County 14. Do not allow industrial zoning. Do not allow any zoning that makes this community vulnerable to big developers. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County 15. Do not allow any large development (including affordable house) on Purefoy Drive that has no other means of egress into the Purefoy, Sandberg, and Edgar Road area other than Purefoy Road. Chapel Hill 16. Ensure adequate representation of this community in local government decisions that affect this community, including land use ordinances. Orange County, Chapel Hili, and Carrboro 17. Re-unify this community by de-annexing the west side of this community from Carrboro. Carrboro Do not divide this community between different jurisdictions. Do not annex this community Carrboro and Chapel Hill 18. Document in writing all meetings concerning this neighborhood and have these documents officially recorded and filed. Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro 19. The Task Force recommends that residents living near the Orange Regional Landfill take initiative in identifying perpetrators of illegal dumping near the landfill to assist in successful prosecutions. Identification of vehicles, license tags, drivers, and/or types of articles discarded should be made when possible. The BOCC should coordinate with the Orange County Attorney to pass legislation, which provides for civil penalties for illegal dumping to make it easier to penalize people who litter or dump. In addition, the BOCC will publicize the names of those convicted of illegal dumping. The BOCC should increase enforcement of anti-dumping laws in the Community Enhancement Area. The Task Force recommends that additional "No Littering" signs be erected in the neighborhoods near the landfill. Orange County 20. Allow power to be turned on in power outages in a different order so we are not next to last every time. Duke Power 21. Pay more attention to our roads during ice and snow events. Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and DOT 22. Expand fire, EMS, and sheriff services as soon as possible. Chapel Hill, Orange County, Carrboro 23. St. Paul .Church purchased a 20-acre property that holds 3-story house and neighboring cemetery filled with history of local families. Community would like to see efforts that that section of the property be protected from demolition and preserved as a Historic Site. Chapel Hill, Orange County, and Carrboro Note: St. Paul AME has purchased five adioinin~ broberties along the northeast corner o Rogers Road and Purefoy Road. The parcel that contains the 3-story house and cemetery was included in that purchase. The house was recorded as part o a countywide survey for historic properties or historic architectural resources in the early 1990's. These countywide survey were conducted throughout the state in conjunction with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation O~zce. This particular house was first recorded in 1992, and re-surveyed during; a 2006 update. According to notes of the survey there is a white cemetery (How in the opt yard and a black (slave) cemetery somewhere in the back. 4 0 0 0 Y , A p r Y r V7 5 ~ l~ 9 ° c ~ v L C i ~ Cl:~ a Q ~ 0 N N • ~ ~ //----'~ m Y. Q N a O C O ~ J ff^^ V! ~ ^L^l o '}}W''~~ m VJ ~ O U 'i Q 4 N }i a N Q Z ~ d a ~ g~ G t ~ C c S - ~ a~ ~ W~ ~ ~ z~~ ~ ~ & ~ V ~ fi ~ F`9- 2n I r~ \ \\ \ ~ I`~ \\ ~ ~ I '~ \ \ ~. ~;. ~\ ~. I \ ~'~~\ ~~ ~', :~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~`` ~~ ~ ,,, AA~A~'~~~,~ , ~ i~, ,`\ \~, ~ q *~ ~~ ~ ~ ~, ~ ~~ ~ i i it , v i __ ~~. ~\ ~ ,ti~~ ~ ~ `: I .., r {~ V` ~__ -\ O .,~~.