Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership
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will lead this 2nd Jane’s Walk focused on ‘Inspiring Innovative
Spaces.’ During the walk we will tour the arts-related spaces in the downtown
area, drawing attention to the arts as a business driver in the Chapel Hill
Downtown Area to explain the importance of public space for the transmittance
of ideas and creativity.
Date:
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
Nathan Huening of Sprocket House will lead this first Jane's Walk in Chapel Hill, focusing on 'Paving Our Pathways.' During this walk, we will tour the places in the Chapel Hill Downtown area where individuals are developing projects and businesses to reshape the downtown area, focusing on sites accessed through pedestrian pathways to explain the need for shorter block lengths to allow non-linear expansion of the Chapel Hill downtown area.
Date:
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
University Baptist Church's Memorial Garden at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets (100 S. Columbia Street)
On Monday, the Downtown Partnership posted its vision for Chapel Hill on 2020 Buzz, the official blog of the Chapel Hill 2020 process. The vision apparently stems from a meeting that the Chapel Hill 2020 Outreach Committee had with members of the Chamber of Commerce and the business community before Thanksgiving.
The vision isn’t so much a vision as it as wish list. It calls on the town to expedite the review process for development downtown and provide for a whole host of a uses-by-right in the area so that new development downtown wouldn’t need any approval on top of building permits, zoning complains and certificates of occupancy. It also talks about building some new streets (especially in the north-south direction) downtown, making some changes to the way Chapel Hill does it zoning and ensuring regional transit is centered in the area.
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