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Monday, October 30, 2000
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feci of the current layout,” said David
Godschalk, chairman of the Master Plan's
design and operations team.
This draft features new residence
halls, academic and research buildings,
a transit corridor and anew entrance
from Fordham Boulevard.
Weathering the Storm
Residents of the neighborhoods sur
rounding the campus say they under
stand the University’s need to grow but
are concerned about the environmental
impacts of the proposed changes.
Residents are worried that the
increased campus development will lead
to a higher volume of stormwater running
into their neighborhoods. But planners
say the Master Plan shows a net decrease
in the amount of impervious surface -
ground that cannot absorb water.
“Less impervious surface is better for
stormwater management,” said Roger
Waldon, Chapel Hill planning director.
Planners contend that a reorganiza
tion of the space for parking on campus
will decrease the net impervious surface.
Reducing the number of surface
parking lots will lead to more water
absorbing ground, Godschalk said.
Additionally, grass might be planted on
top of some of these new parking decks,
creating more water-absorbing surface.
There are also plans to build decks
below ground or beneath buildings.
But Hope C. Taylor, executive direc
tor of the Clean Water Fund of North
Carolina, disagrees with some of the
planners’ conclusions about the Master
Plan’s potential environmental impacts
and effect on stormwater management.
“The University should be modeling
improved stormwater management
practices for the region and state before
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it considers further increases in imper
vious surface on campus," she said.
But drainage is not the only concern.
In the House of Noise and Light?
Issues of noise and light pollution also
have surfaced, as some residents already
find living near the massive medical
research buildings on Manning Drive and
South Columbia Street overwhelming.
“(Residents) had been concerned
prior to even seeing the Master Plan due
to all of the massive buildings being
built that did not seem to be in perspec
tive with the north side of the campus,”
said Elaine Barney, a resident of the
Westwood neighborhood.
Barney said she was concerned that
additional construction of biomedical
research buildings would mean more
noise and light pollution. She, as well as
residents and planners, said there should
be a clear boundary between the town
and the University. But the exact nature
of this boundary remains undetermined.
When the Smith Center was construct
ed, a provision of the Chapel Hill Town
Council special-use permit stated that
there would be no other construction in
that area within 200 feet of the University
border. The goal of the provision was to
create a buffer between the University and
the Mason Farm neighborhoods.
Jonathan Howes, chairman of the
Master Plan’s Executive Steering Team,
concedes that the University will ask the
Chapel Hill Town Council to decrease
the size of the buffer. But some residents
say the buffer should stay as it is. “If they
remove the buffer of the trees that act as
a sound as well as visual barriers, that
will affect the people whose homes are
on Mason Farm Road,” Barney said.
Town Council members said no deci
sions have been made at this time.
Travelin' Blues
No matter where people park their
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cars on campus, they still have to get
there, and that worries residents.
Barney said she is worried because
more cars on campus means an increase
in traffic through her neighborhood,
something that isn’t addressed in the plan.
Planners are aware of these concerns
and are trying to decrease the flow of
traffic through neighboring communities
by encouraging park and ride and creat
ing anew road that would pass though
part of the Mason Farm neighborhood.
But this proposed new road, one of
three options being considered by the
planners, has been one of the most con
tentious issues of the Master Plan. Its
creation would lead to the destruction of
eight private homes.
Residents contend that there are
other ways to reduce traffic that don’t
involve the sacrifice of their neighbors’
homes. Many would like to see the
University’s Horace Williams property
and its developable land near the Friday
Center given further consideration.
Overall Outlook
Planners see this blueprint as some
thing that will preserve the surrounding
neighborhoods. “In the long run, we
think these changes will protect these
neighborhoods,” Howes said.
While there are disagreements about
the specifics of the plan, all concede that
the future of both the town and the
University are inexorably linked.
“I think that the town’s interests and
the University’s interests are the same,”
said Town Council member Bill Strom.
“It is not productive to look at things in
black and white. There are many sce
narios that benefit both the town and the
University as the plan goes forward, and
it behooves the town and the University
to look for these areas of agreement.”
The City Editor can be reached
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ENVIRONMENT
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Officials say in previous development
schemes for UNC, the health of these
streams was not taken into consideration.
Pollution has affected those downstream
from campus, and aside from the quality
of the water itself, streambeds have suf
fered from erosion caused by swiftly
flowing runoff on South Campus slopes.
Pat Evans, a member of die Chapel
Hill Town Council and the Master
Plan’s design and operations team, said
developers had to change the way they
conceived of projects to avoid those sit
uations. “I think in the past this topic
was not addressed - you can pinpoint
that by the fact that streams are buried,”
Evans said.
Sharon Myers, who was a member of
the Environmental Advisory Group and
the UNC Sustainability Coalition, said
the problems surrounding stormwater
management are not unique to UNC.
“When you urbanize an area, these
are the things that happen,” Myers said,
referring to polluted runoff and eroded
streambeds. “When you harden sur
faces, the water runs off instead of soak
ing in, and when there are storms, the
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amount of water increases.”
The final version of the Master Plan,
released in September, adopted many of
Andropogon Associates and Cahill
Associates’ suggestions for new water
management techniques. Durkin said
the ideas discussed included the use of
porous pavement in parking lots, plant
ed areas on top of parking decks that
would absorb some potential runoff and
silt fencing to prevent soil erosion dur
ing construction.
Several construction projects were
altered after reviewing the consultants’
additions. Durkin said the planners
moved the site of the proposed Sonja H.
Stone Black Cultural Center - which will
break ground in April - after learning
that they would have to alter the course
of an existing streambed.
Despite all the positive input,
Fransisco said some advisory group
members were frustrated they did not
have as much influence as they felt was
needed.
“The environmental scope of the
Master Plan was not conceived until
very late in the game,” Fransisco said.
“Some of us were disappointed that the
time frame was so short.”
Jonathan Howes, chairman of the
Master Plan’s Executive Steering Team,
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readily acknowledged the vital contri
butions made by the consultants.
But he also said the plan is only a
guide for future developers.
“The decisions that are made in the
end are made by the (Board of
Trustees),” Howes said. “The plan is
worth as much as the decision-makers
put into it”
Legally, UNC will have to imple
ment some of the decisions made in the
Master Plan because of new federal reg
ulations regarding stormwater quality.
James Mergner, deputy for facilities ser
vices at UNC, said cities throughout the
state will have to get stormwater permits
by 2003, and these will only be obtain
able by adhering to strict guidelines.
As Chapel Hill expands to accommo
date growth in the Triangle, UNC will
have to expand as well. With the
Environmental Master Plan, Durkin said
she thinks the University is prepared to
accomplish this expansion wisely. r
“People whom we met (in dje
Environmental Advisory Group)
seemed to have great ideas,” Durkin
said. “I don’t see it as a situation just giv
ing lip service to the environment.”
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For the Record
The caption for the photo in Friday’s
article “Speaker Explains Visual
Deception” incorrectly identified Dan
Korem as Don Korem.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
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