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Tuesday, September 5, 2000
Making the Connection
Citing numerous safety concerns, residents of three area subdivisions are asking the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen to reconsider a decision to connect both sides of Autumn Drive.
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SOURCE: TOWN OF CARRBORO PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Mayors Cooperate to Curb Transit Woes
Four area mayors are
considering several options,
including a regional tax, to
fund future transit projects.
By Phil Perry
Staff Writer
Four Triangle-area mayors have
joined forces to find possible solutions
for the area’s transportation headaches.
Mayors Rosemary Waldorf of Chapel
Hill, Nick Tennyson of Durham, Paul
Coble of Raleigh and Glen Lang of
Cary have formed an alliance to secure
state or private funding for projects
being considered by the two metropol
itan planning organizations that service
the area.
One MPO draws plans for Wake
County and the other covers the
Durham, Chapel Hill and Carrboro area.
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Both MPOs
have formulated
plans that forecast
transportation and
transit problems
caused by future
growth of the area
and the improve
ments and funds
needed to solve
them.
“If we look at
these plans over
the next 25 years,
it is very obvious
that we have
nowhere near the
Chapel Hill Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf
said a referendum
would be held to
decide on a possible
regional sales tax.
money we need to complete these pro
jects," Waldorf said. “If we want to sus
tain reasonably good mobility in our
region we are going to need additional
funding for our area."
The mayors hope the alliance will
allow them to lobby for transportation
University & City
Residents Dispute Connecting Road
By Kellie Dixon
Assistant City Editor
About 30 feet of undeveloped prop
erty has sparked controversy between
local landowners and the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen.
Residents of Barington Hills,
Wexford and Cates Farm subdivisions, •
located off Hillsborough Road, are
protesting construction on Autumn
Drive. The aldermen have already
approved the project, which would link
the three subdivisions by joining both
sides of Autumn Drive.
Although the town has promised
sidewalks along the connection, resi
dents are afraid an increase in traffic will
endanger their children who walk to
local McDougle Schools and create
chaos in the neighborhood.
While the board approved the plan to
allow the road construction in March,
residents approached the aldermen in
August with a list of questions and a
request to have the issue revisited.
funding more effectively. Possible
sources of income include state funding,
money from major employers,
increased impact fees, coordinated land
use planning or regional taxation.
For the last option, Waldorf said a ref
erendum would be held in Wake,
Orange and Durham counties to decide
if residents want to impose a sales tax for
transportation. If the tax passes the ref
erendum, the proposal would go before
local governments, the N.C. General
Assembly and county commissioners.
Coordinating land-use planning could
generate considerable revenue, Lang
said. By his estimate, areas could save
half the money needed by reevaluating
their land-use plans. But that will not be
enough. “I think there will be a regional
tax of some sort,” Lang said. “It’s a very
broad-based solution to the problem.”
But the problem is not just securing
funds. Because the MPOs service two
different areas, they have offered sepa
rate plans that do not encompass the
entire problem. To eradicate that prob
lem, the mayors hired the planning con
sultant firm Martin/Alexiou/Bryson of
Raleigh to consolidate the plans.
’;■ George Alexiou, a principle in the
Him, agreed there were problems with
the plans. “All of these improvements
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Stephanie Padilla, who has lived in
Barington Hills for 10 years, said she
opposes the connection because the
neighborhood was old and had narrow
roads. “They built another Autumn
Drive (in Wexford),” she said. “We were
promised there was no chance the roads
would be connected.”
Aldermanjacquelyn Gist said she had
voted against the
connection in the
board’s 6-1 deci
sion. “I didn’t think
it was right. The
neighbors didn’t
want it. The devel
opers didn’t want
it,” she said. “That’s
an old neighbor
hood with winding
streets. It really
“Ididn’t think it was right.
The neighbors didn’t
want it. The developers
didn’t want it.”
Jacquelyn Gist
Carrboro Alderman
doesn’t need to be connected to traffic.”
Gist also said the topic should be
revisited. “To spend that much money in
a neighborhood that doesn’t even want
the road is a misuse of taxpayers’ dol
that are included in the long-term plans
are not funded,” he said.
Alexiou said his firm will form one
conceptual plan from a combination of
those offered by the MPOs and Triangle
Transit Authority, along with a recent
N.C. Department of Transportation study,
which states that high occupancy vehicle
lanes are feasible along some parts of
Interstate 40. “We are not actually going
to develop the plan (that will be used), just
a conceptual plan to determine just how
much additional funding would be need
ed to achieve that plan,” Alexiou said.
Alexiou said the work his firm is
doing cannot replace the work done by
the MPOs. Rather, the firm is working
with the MPOs to find a solution.
Alexiou said Martin/Alexiou/Bryson
would have the plan finished by
January, before the state legislature is
back in session.
Once the plans are finalized, the
problem of how to fund the changes will
still exist. “There’s a myriad of ways to
raise funds to do this,” Lang said.
“What you have to do is make every
one a bit unhappy to make sure traffic
doesn’t drop to a stall.”
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lars,” she said.
But Alderman Allen Spalt said con
nector roads would create a network
that would help relieve traffic on the
main roads. He also said the town would
put in sidewalks, stop signs and speed
bumps to increase pedestrian safety.
“Ordinarily, people who benefit from
a sidewalk have to pay,” he said. “In this
case, the board has
said the town will
bear the cost of the
sidewalk. I think
(residents) don’t
believe us when
we say we want the
road connected
safely.”
Town Manager
Robert Morgan
said the cost for
the town to add sidewalks to the existing
streets, including Autumn Drive, would
be about $130,000.
Morgan said the planning depart
ment recommended this connection be
Ackland Illuminates
Multimedia Exhibit
By Geoff Wessel
Staff Writer
Dropping their chisels and brushes,
artists have picked up more modem
tools to express their vision.
“Illuminations: Contemporary Film
and Video Art” is the Ackland Art
Museum’s first exhibition that doesn’t
just sit on a wall.
The museum recendy purchased pro
jectors of various sizes, DVD players
and sound equipment to present
“Illuminadons” and expand the Ackland
collection’s potential. Now that the
museum owns the equipment for multi
media projects, exhibition curator
Barbara Matilski said “Illuminations”
will not be the Ackland’s last video art
exhibition.
“I think that
we’re at a period
now where video
has become as
important as paint
ing and sculpture,”
Matilski said.
“There are as
many exciting
things coming out
of the video area
as out of tradition
“I think that we’re at a
period now where video has
become as important as
painting and sculpture. ”
Barbara Matilski
Exhibition Curator, Ackland Art Museum
al areas, and it is very exciting.”
Ackland’s new technology creates a
wide variety of possible tools for artists.
Some of die artists in the collection pre
sent their work with customary multi
media methods, displaying their art on
a monitor or a wall.
But some artists use electronic media
to push their art even further.
Among the work in the exhibition is
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Initially, Padilla and her neighbors
asked the aldermen for a referendum
but were denied. The board held a pub
lic hearing instead, where the connec
tion was approved. Spalt said he disap
proved of a referendum because he
thinks the town should be run by its
local officials. “I doubt the (N.C.)
General Assembly will look kindly on
(having a referendum) because they
haven’t in the past,” Spalt said. “And if
they did do that, it’s likely to take a long
time. It would be faster for (the resi
dents) to do a recall.”
Padilla said residents have discussed'
a recall, which is a petition calling for a
vote to determine whether certain aider
men should remain in office. But she
hopes the situation wouldn’t call for that.
“We’re trying to make this a positive
thing for the town.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Tony Oursler’s “Eye in the Sky,” which
projects a giant human eye onto a sus
pended sphere. Pepon Osorio’s.
“Cancion de Cuna para una Madre” is a
multimedia representation examining
teenage pregnancy. Because of interac
tive works such as Jim Campbell’s
“Experiments in Touching Color,”
Matilski said “Illuminations” was
intended to appeal to today’s youth.
“Television and film is really the
media students have learned to see
through,” she said. “Students often don’t
come to art galleries, unfortunately. This
might be something that would interest
them more.”
Namjune Paik, whose “Eagle Eye,”
along with Oursler’s “Eye in the Sky,”
are part of the Ackland’s permanent col
lection, is considered the father of video
art. In “Eagle Eye,”
Paik uses disparate
technologies and
images to draw
together the span
of human history
in a present-day
medium.
“Video art is a
lot more engag
ing,” said junior
mathematics major
Aaron Bednar, one of the exhibition’s
visitors. “The technology is about this
century; it relates more to me just
because it is of the time period I live in.”
“Illuminations: Contemporary Film
and Video Art” is running in the
Ackland until Oct. 8.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.