Shaping Our Future - A Transportation and Land Use Initiative.

The Town is advancing recommendations from the 2020 Charting our Future initiative. Charting our Future included a Future Land Use Map (FLUM) update, including Focus Areas that outlined growth along the Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd corridor to the north, Downtown, south to Southern Village, the 15-501 area to the northeast, and the NC-54 corridor to the southeast.

Several Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station areas on M.L.K. Jr Blvd. overlap with the MLK North and South and Downtown Focus Areas.

Together, these locations will play a substantial role in Chapel Hill’s future growth. They can also show how community values around equity, inclusion, resilience, sustainability, and environmental stewardship can be implemented in practical ways.

We've taken a deeper look at Station Areas and Focus Areas, with a finer level of detail and sensitivity to local conditions and market dynamics. Future housing, economic development, development types and quality, public spaces, and bike and pedestrian connections are being addressed holistically. Implementation recommendations include affordable and missing middle housing goals, strategies for equitable transportation investment. Design concepts show what realizing objectives will look like. Recommendations will be finalized in early 2023.

Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 1

Chapel Hill recently completed a planning effort to chart what development is wanted and not wanted throughout Town - the Charting Our Future initiative. We now want to create specific recommendations...

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Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 2

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Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 3

What types of development can meet Chapel Hill's needs? Let's discuss future development locations and the role of sites that will change in the next 10 - 20 years. Your answers to this...

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Planning Foundation and Joint Baseline

During this phase, we examined existing documents and conditions and performed technical analysis. We completed a series of stakeholder workshops. The workshops summarized the purpose of the project, existing conditions, presented diverse and locally relevant examples of transit-oriented development, and shared concepts relevant to the Station Areas and Focus Areas. We also launced our Equity Dialogue.

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Station and Focus Area Planning

During this phase, consultant teams worked together to look at specific sites along the Bus Rapid Transit corridor that could be available for development and engaged with stakeholders and staff as they developed the list of potential sites. The team is also completed the market demand and forecast, and evaluated how concepts relating to the Town’s values can inform how those potential sites can be developed.

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Refine Station and Focus Area Development

Most recently, consultant teams; refined Station Area and Focus Area development scenarios and are now drafting implementation recommendations, that identify where TOD and focus area planning efforts require improvements to the code to facilitate desired outcomes. They have just completed preliminary TOD Code Recommendation and provided this information to Town Council on December 7, 2022.

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implementation Strategies

Consultant teams have drafted and are vetting TOD implementation strategies with staff. On January 12th and 18th - they will share these strategies with Town Council and will return on February 22, 2023 for adoption and resolution.

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Shaping Our Future - A Transportation and Land Use Initiative.

Shaping Our Future - A Transportation and Land Use Initiative.

Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 1

Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 2

Shaping Our Future - Equity Dialogue Session 3

Planning Foundation and Joint Baseline

Station and Focus Area Planning

Refine Station and Focus Area Development

implementation Strategies

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