HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 04-10-2006 - 9e2ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: April 10, 2006
Action Agenda ^
Item No. 9- G-a
SUBJECT: Rogers Road Small Area Plan Taskforce-Appointments
DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No
ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover INFORMATION CONTACT:
Letter(s) from Town of Chapel Hill Clerk's Office, 245-2130
PURPOSE: To consider making appointments to the Rogers Rd Small Area Plan Taskforce.
BACKGROUND: The Town of Chapel HiII has invited Carrboro and Orange County to participate with
them in amulti-jurisdictional Rogers Rd Small Area Plan Taskforce. The Chapel Hill Town Council is
asking elected officials to appoint a representative(s) to a committee of elected officials to discuss the
Rogers Rd neighborhood.
In January, Chapel Hill Town Council appointed Council Members Strom and Kleinschmidt to this
committee. Carrboro has not yet made appointments,.
Proposed Timeline
The Chapel Hill Town Council requests that this process begin in July 2006. This process should take
no more than 18 months to complete,
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None,
RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making an appointment(s) of at least one elected official to the
Rogers Rd Small Area Plan Taskforce,.
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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR (919) 968-2714
FAX 919-969-2063
February 2, 2006
Barry Jacobs, Chair
Orange Couniy Boazd of Commissioners
P.O. Box 8181
Hillsborough, NC 27278
Aeaz Comrrussioner Jacobs:
As you aze aware, the Town Council is very interested in developing a Small Area Plan for the
Rogers Road neighborhood, We would like to inform ycu of recent action taken by the Council
regazding the Rogers Road neighborhood and invite you to join us in planning for this area, At its
Planning Session on January 12, 2006, the Council continued to include the Rogers Road Small
Area Plan as one of its highest priorities for 2006, The .Council also encouraged amulti-
jurisdictionai approach to complete a Small Area Plan for this neighborhood that would take no
more than 18 months to complete.
Council Members agreed to ask elected officials from Carrboro and Orange County to participate
in a multi jurisdictional approach for development of a Small Area Plan. At its Planning Session,
the Council suggested forming a Committee of elected officials to develop a proposed process for
completing a Small Area Plan. It was suggested that a Committee could also discuss participants
in the process and joint staff work. On January 23, 2006, Council Members Strom and
Kleinschmidt were appointed by the Council to initiate discussions regarding this process, A copy
of the January 23, 2006 Memorandum is attached.
We ask that the Orange County Commissioners consider participating in a multi jurisdictional
process for a Rogers Road Small Area Plan, We also ask that the Board consider appointing a
representative(s) to a Committee of elected officials to discuss a process, Our hope is that the
discussions would take place in the coming months so that planning work could begin in July
2006.
Thank you for your consideration,
Sincerely,
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Mayor
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager
SUB.IECT: Follow Up Report -Proposed Process for Development of a Small Area Plan for
the Rogers Road Neighborhood
DATE: January 23, 2006
PURPOSE
The purpose of this report is to provide additional information requested by the Council at its
lanuary 12, 2006 Planning Session regarding the proposed process for development of a Small
Area Plan for the Rogers Road neighborhood.
The attached resolution would appoint members of the Council to initiate discussion with elected
officials from the Town of Cazrboro and Orange County regarding a Small Area Plan process for
the Rogers Road neighborhood, including the Greene Tract, and request that the Cazrboro Board
of Aldermen and the Orange County Boazd of Commissioners appoint representatives for this
purpose.
BACKGROUND
At the Planning Session on .Ianuazy 12, 2006, the Council discussed a proposed process for
development of a Small Area Plan for the Rogers Road neighborhood. At that time, we informed
the Council that we would return on January 23, 2006 with a resolution to begin this process.
DISCUSSION
Council Members agreed to ask elected officials from Carrboro and Orange County to pazticipate
in a multi jurisdictional approach for development of a plan. The attached resolution would
request that Carrboro and Orange County pazticipate in this multi jurisdictional process. The
Council indicated a desire to begin planning for the azea in .Iuly.
The Council also asked the staff to provide additional infonmation on two issues:
Proposed Timeline
We recommend that the Committee of elected officials begin to meet as soon as possible to agree
upon a proposed process, participants in the process, and joint staff work. If' Cazrboro and
Orange County agree to participate in a multi jurisdictional process, the Council requested that
the process begin in .July 2006 as originally scheduled. At the Planning Session, the Council also
encouraged amulti-jurisdictional approach that would take no more than 18 months to complete.
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Greene Tract Conservation Easement
The Greene Tract is a 164-acre parcel owned ,jointly by Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange
County. An Interlocal Agreement from 1999 and aniended in 2000, provides guidelines for
division of the property located at the eastern terminus of Purefoy Road, adjacent the railroad.
A Greene Tract Work Group that included representatives of all the parties to the Interlocal
Agreement began meeting in 2001 to discuss the proposed basic uses of affordable housing, open
space and recreation space. Chapel Hill, Carrbom and Orange County adopted resolutions
supporting these basic uses in concept:
• 18.1 acres on the northwest portion of the site adjacent the Purefoy Road neighborhood
would be reserved for Affordable Housing; and
• 85,9 acres would be reserved for open space.
• 60 acres has been conveyed to Orange County. The Board of County Corrunissioners'
position on the status of this land is stated in a March 24, 2000 letter to the Town that "it
is the intent of the current Board of Commissioners that this sixty acres remain
undisturbed,"
Included in the Work Group's resolution of June 26, 2002, was a recommendation that the open
space azea "should be protected by a conservation easement transferred fast between July 1,
200.3 and June 3Q 2005. The conservation easement would protect the land in perpetuity." To
date, the conservation easement has not been executed, According to the Interlocal Agreement,
once a conservation easement is approved by the three parties, reimbursement to the Solid
Waste/L,andfill Enterprise Fund would begin. Chapel Hill's interest would be approximately
$363,892 as we understand it.
We will work with the managers in Carrboro and Orange County to determine options and a
schedule for proceeding.
RECOMMENDATION
We recommend that the Council adopt the attached resolution appointing members of the
Council to initiate discussions with elected officials from Cazrboro and Orange County regarding
a Sma11 Area Plan process for the Rogers Road neighborhood, including the Greene Tract, and
requesting that the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Orange County Board of
Commissioners appoint representatives for this purpose.
ATTACHMENT
1. January 12, 2006 memorandum to the Mayor and Town Council (begin new page 1).
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL TO INITIATE
DISCUSSIONS WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM CARRBORO AND ORANGE
COUNTY REGARDING A SMALL AREA PLAN PROCESS FOR THE ROGERS ROAD
NEIGHBORHOOD, INCLUDING THE GREENE TRACT (2006-O1-23/R-9)
WHEREAS, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Orange County each have an interest in the ,jointly
owned 164-acre Green Tract as well as the larger Rogers Road community; and
WHEREAS, the Council wishes to initiate a Small Area Plan process for the multi-jurisdictional
Rogers Road neighborhood including the,jointly owned Greene Tract; and
WHEREAS, the Rogers Road neighborhood is situated within Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange
County ,jurisdictions;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the
Council appoints Council Members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Sirom to initiate discussions
with elected officials from Cazrboro and Orange County regarding a Small Area Plan process for
the Rogers Road neighborhood, including the Greene Tract.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council requests that the Cazrbaro Board of Aldermen
and Orange County Boazd of Conrrnissioners appoint representatives for the purpose.
Tlus the 2:3`d day of.lanuazy, 2006
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