Government
Chapel Hill 2020 will offer the special topic presentation "Chapel Hill
Community Survey" by Karen Falk, vice president of ETC Institute.
The public is
invited to the presentation to be held at noon Tuesday, March 13, in
the Council Chamber of Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd. The public event will be aired live on Chapel Hill Government
TV-18 and streamed on the Town of Chapel Hill website at www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1850
The Town Council will have an earlier opportunity to receive the
survey report at its Council meeting on Monday, Feb. 12. The report will
review results from a Town of Chapel Hill Community Survey conducted
last fall by ETC Institute, a professional market research firm based in
the Kansas City area. ETC has administered surveys in more than 300
cities and counties across the United States.
"Conducting this survey was one of the Town Council's early
established goals as a
means to help us understand our residents' perception of the services
the Town provides," said Town Manager Roger L. Stancil. "This biennial
survey helps us understand what we are doing better and where we need to
improve. It is one of the tools we use in establishing budget
priorities and making policy decisions."
Results from the 2011 survey are expected to provide valuable input
toward a visioning process, Chapel Hill 2020, to shape the town's
direction in a sustainable way for the next 10 years.
The survey was mailed to 2,000 randomly selected Chapel Hill
households. The random selection is critical to the statistical validity
of the survey results. An online survey also was offered to allow
interested residents an opportunity to view and complete the survey,
although those results will be tabulated separately.
The survey
polled residents on issues ranging from public safety, development, and
parks and recreation, to infrastructure and administrative services.
Benchmarking analysis has been conducted by ETC to help Chapel Hill
understand how its results compare to similar communities.
Survey results will be made available on the Town website at www.townofchapelhill.org/survey. The results of Chapel Hill's 2009 community survey are available online for review.
Date:
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Council Chamber, Chapel Hill Town Hall
Tonight, the Chapel Hill Town Council will have their first public forum on the FY2012-2013 budget. This is in anticipation of the Manager's presentation of the recommended budget on May 14. The full budget calendar can be found here.
Earlier this evening town staff briefed the public on the results from the Future Focus sessions held last week. The meeting followed a pretty basic format. During the first and last 30 minutes, participants were free to roam around five different rooms, one or each of the special study areas that town previously identified. In the hour between, Mary Jane Nirdlinger, the town’s assistant planning director, gave a presentation synthesizing the results while taking questions from the audience.
On Wednesday
and Thursday of this week, the town of Chapel Hill conducted charrette-style Future
Focus sessions designed to understand how town residents would like to see
Chapel Hill grow from the urban design perspective. The overall event was split into three sessions, one on Wednesday evening and two identical sessions on Thursday. The first session included several presentations on town growth and an urban design exercise where participants were asked to rate 50 different images on their favorableness for fitting in downtown. The second and third sessions were map mark-ups for five study areas along key transportation corridors (i.e. MLK, 15-501 and 54).
Note: All the following maps were made by my resident GIS specialist, Jason Baker. Use the checkboxes to toggle the display of old/new districts.
The events in state politics over the last two weeks have served as a reminder that election season is now here. Candidate filing for the May primary starts today. This will also be the first election to use the newly drawn maps for the NC House, NC Senate, and US House districts. These maps alter (rather drastically, in some cases) how Orange County is represented at the state and federal level, so I thought it would be helpful to provide a summary of the changes in each district.
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