Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:38:33 -0400
From: Pittsboro Matters
Subject: Public Hearing on Chatham Park!
Tuesday, May 20, 7:30 PM, Historic Chatham County Courthouse
The Pittsboro Town Board will hold a public hearing on a revised master plan for Chatham Park this Tuesday, May 20 at 7:30 pm at the Historic Chatham County Courthouse in Pittsboro. This is expected to be the last public meeting before the board decides whether to grant a re-zoning request to give the go-ahead to the largest mixed-use planned development ever proposed in the history of North Carolina. Commissioners will hear citizen responses to the latest Chatham Park Investors plan, which mostly ignored essential recommendations on environmental protection and traffic mitigation needs from the Lawrence Group consultant, Pittsboro Matters and many citizens. We encourage citizens to attend, and arrive early enough to sign up and speak. E-mail or write the commissioners and mayor at the addresses provided below.
Our Eight Conditions before Rezoning
1. Consultants and Staff: Chatham Park Investors (CPI) must provide Pittsboro with the financial resources to employ the consultants and staff necessary for the town to review and regulate the planning and development of Chatham Park.
2. Social-Economic Impacts of the Development: CPI must agree to adopt practices that will advance downtown and local business, affordable housing, public schools and public safety impacts.
3. Protect Downtown Pittsboro and Surrounding Community from Massive Traffic Impact: A traffic analysis must be done to address the east-west connections to Pittsboro and negative impacts of traffic on the entire county.
4. Conservation Areas Protected Well Beyond Minimum Standards: A plan to protect stream and river buffers, steep slopes, wetlands and Significant Natural Areas must be determined at the final Master Plan level before construction begins.
5. No Construction before Planning: No construction should be allowed before the planning and protection is in place for conservation, traffic and socio-economic impacts. Small area plans are not adequate for planning a project of this scale.
6. Citizen Input and Planning Charrettes: The master plan must require that a public process and design charrettes be conducted to provide input concerning the specifics of the plan elements required by the town’s Land Use Plan.
7. Water and Wastewater Details in Advance: CPI must provide more substantive details on where the drinking water for Chatham Park will come from and where the wastewater effluent will go, including the funding for this infrastructure.
8. Reduce the proposed number of dwelling units for environmentally sensitive areas within the 2,000 foot buffer adjacent to the Haw River as stated in the Land Use Plan.
Read our full Position Paper online on our website:
Pittsboro Matters: http://pittsboromatters.org
Town Board Contact Information
Town Mayor
William G. Terry
92 South Freeman Drive
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Commissioners
Pamela Baldwin
PO Box 1608
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Michael A. Fiocco
353 Hillsboro Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312
(919) 542-7079
J. A. (Jay) Farrell
103 Launis Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Bett Wilson Foley
644 Millbrook Drive
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Beth Turner
PO Box 136
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Town Manager
Bryan Gruesbeck
PO Box 759
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Send copies of all correspondence to:
Town Clerk
Alice F. Lloyd, CMC
PO Box 759
Pittsboro, NC 27312