Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:05:19 -0500
From: samantha capitol
Subject: Chatham Park: New public parks and public access to the Haw River.
*We have heard a lot of talk about the Haw River becoming an amenity for the Chatham Park Development as if that were a bad thing, when it is instead a very good thing for Pittsboro. Most of these areas will be open to all the people of Chatham County.
There is currently almost no public access to the river and the surrounding area. It is all privately owned and access is restricted, not publicly controlled. The Chatham Park masterplan requires hundreds of acres in publicly accessible areas of park land, greenways, bikeways, wooded areas and sport facilities, each and every site to be approved by the Pittsboro Town Board and most to be designated open to the public by the Town Board.*