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Mayor Jonathan B. Howes takes a close look at the relationship between UNC and Chapel Hill
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This is the first of a series of ar
ticles outlining the issues facing the
Chapel Hill Town Council, profiling
its members and examining the rela
tionship between the town and the
University. For this article The Tar
Heel spoke with Mayor Jonathan B.
Howes and asked him to outline the
issues that currently face the town.
By JIM GREENHILL
Staff Writer
"This town's principle function is
to serve as an environment in which
the University of North Carolina can
prosper," said Jonathan B. Howes,
mayor of Chapel Hill, in an inter
view with The Tar Heel May 26.
The special relationship between
the town and the University is under
scored by the fact that Howes is also
director of the University's Center
for Urban and Regional Studies. With
Chancellor Hardin, Howes created the
town and gown Coordination and
Consultation Committee, with a mis
sion to improve communications be
tween the two. Former Student Body
President Brian Bailey's administra
tion proposed the idea for the posi
tion of student liaison to the Chapel
Hill Town Council.
Howes discussed issues ranging
from the demise of the Rosemary
Square project to future growth of
the University.
"It's tragic that this positive proj
ect for downtown is unable to go
forward," Howes said of the cancel
lation of Rosemary Square, a condo
miniumhotel development that was
to be built on the parking lot between
NCNB Plaza and the post office.
"It didn't go forward because
people found ways to delay it to the
point that, if it was economically
feasible originally, it wasn't any
more," he said.
Rosemary Square survived con
stitutional and political tests, but the
project couldn't survive the final
market test, Howes said. This is be
cause the 1986 federal tax reforms
made the type of investment proposed
less attractive and because "litiga
tion brought by members of the com
munity made the atmosphere poison
ous," he said.
Howes cited Town Council mem
ber and former Mayor James C.
Wallace and former Chapel Hill
Newspaper publisher Orville B.
Campbell as major opponents of the
project.
"I continue to believe it was a
good thing and I continue to believe
it was needed," Howes said. "The
resistance to change in this commu
nity is much stronger now than it
was when I first joined the council."
Chapel Hill's citizens are liberal
on national issues but conservative
about their own community, Howes
said.
Parking and the noise ordinance
are two issues facing both the Uni
versity and the town, Howes said.
"The University kind of systemati
cally eliminated (parking spaces), now
it's starting to put them back," he
said.
Of the noise ordinance the mayor
commented, "I don't think there's as
much of a problem as there used to
be, but from time to time it does flare
up." There will never be a solution to
this issue beyond managing a com
. promise, he said.
At the direction of the town and
gown committee, the mayor is work
ing to form a committee to examine
access to the University campus and
find ways to divert people from us
ing private automobiles to using public
transit. Howes wants the committee
to examine the effectiveness of park
and ride lots and of routing buses
through residential areas. He plans to
include the student liason on the
committee.
"The expansion (of the Univer
sity) to the south has probably gone
about as far as it can go," Howes
said. Access from the north is far
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