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Hillsborough assays
Churton St. proposal
BY BRANDON REED
STAFF WRITER
Historic downtown Hillsborough
soon will get a face-lift, but inter
ested parties want to ensure the
look is one everyone can live with.
Monday night, the Hillsborough
Town Board received an update on
the Gateway Center project, slated
to house anew restaurant and
several business offices and apart
ments off Churton Street.
The development’s main hangup
is the current outline of downtown
Hillsborough, which might make it
difficult to reach the retail and rental
center.
Both N&K Street and Exchange
Park Lane would cause problems
for commuters trying to access the
proposed development because the
roads were never properly devel
oped, said Brian Ketchem, a civil
engineering manager with Summit
Consulting Engineers who has
been hired to redesign area traffic
flow for the project.
Area residents echoed Ketchem’s
concerns at the meeting, stressing
that the original plan eliminated
left-turn access to and from Churton
Street from the other roads.
Ketchem said the board now
wants to combine the two roads to
access Churton Street at one point.
“I know a lot of people don’t go
(to shops on the roads) because
they can’t get out,” said Leon Lee,
CHAMBER
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A vital first step in creating a
sustainable environment and local
economy is education the work
shop’s key goal, Ward said.
“I think that we have a very con
scientious, progressive commu
nity,” chamber Executive Director
Aaron Nelson said. “Local busi
nesses care about the community
where they do business. This is
where they raise their children.”
Nelson thinks town government
is doing a good job of improving
economic diversity and environ
mental policy, but he said sparking
social change in the area must go
beyond officials.
COLLINS
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“Poetry tends to have a smaller
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with an audience,” McFee said.
CUAB President Claire Anderson
said she is excited about seeing
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“You are potentially satisfying one client
and potentially hurting another, and
in my view that's not right.”
WALTER FARIBAULT JR., RIVERSIDE PROPERTY OWNER
who owns and operates Riverside
Restaurant & Catering at 162
Exchange Park Lane. “Basically, it
would be disastrous for that side of
town if we shut it off.”
Lee and Walter Faribault Jr.,
who own the property Riverside is
built on, are worried that business
would decline because no one would
be able to access the area for short
trips. They also are concerned that
trucks would have difficulty turn
ing around and exiting.
“What is happening here is you
are potentially satisfying one client
and potentially hurting another,
and in my view that’s not right,”
Faribault said.
Other locals are concerned about
the potentially dangerous mix of
pedestrians and vehicles the com
plex might create.
“It’s 20 miles per hour, and you
almost have to get clipped a couple
of times to want to do the speed
limit,” said Lauren McGlynn, who
lives in the area.
To realize the Gateway project,
Hillsborough’s redesign commit
tee will have to accentuate the
This year’s event only received
about 90 reservations —a decrease
of 60 from last year. Knapp attrib
uted the decline to last weekend’s
well-attended events, including an
Earth Day celebration, and not to
a lack of interest.
Coby Linton, an architect for
Dixon Weinstein Architects, PA,
who attended the event to learn
about better construction tech
niques and materials to use for his
firm, said the topics discussed are
relevant to the entire community.
“It helps to be aware of who else
is doing it locally,” he said. “You can
never know too much about it.”
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Collins on campus.
“His poetry is so incredible and
approachable and charming,” she
said.
“I fell in love with some of his
works.”
Anderson also said she is pleased
with the efforts of the Writers Speak
committee this year.
“They’ve done an amazing job,
and they’ve really tapped into some
thing on this campus that’s always
existed: a strong community of writ
ers and readers.”
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area’s small-town qualities.
“It’ll change the view as you
come into town,” Planning Director
Margaret Hauth said of the pro
posed changes.
Residents’ suggestions have
included putting parking lots
behind new developments and
erecting street signs to direct
drivers toward businesses off the
town’s main thoroughfare, Hauth
said.
“That’s going to get more woven
into our development guidelines,”
she said of suggestions.
Business owners can apply for
facade grants to erect some of the
signs, Hauth said, but there’s still
no clear source of funding for more
expensive suggestions, including
placing power lines underground.
The town is unable to pay for
more expensive improvements and
could not place the burden on the
property owners, she said.
The re-worked plans will be up
for board approval May 9.
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SUTTON'S
FROM PAGE 3
residents.
Woodard took the first picture
in 1981 of the “morning breakfast
crew,” many of whom still frequent
the store, Pinney said.
“We basically started tak
ing them of our best customers,”
Pinney said, “Then the next thing
you know, everyone’s asking for
their picture on the wall.”
The pictures that seem to gar
ner the most attention are those of
UNC’s legendary athletes, including
the 2005 men’s basketball team.
Senior Melvin Scott, former
point guard for the Tar Heels, has
been known to frequent Sutton’s
as many as three times a day, and
he said he is addicted to the store’s
cheeseburgers.
“This is the best place to come,
man,” Scott said, “Look around,
everybody’s smiling and laughing.”
Sutton’s seems to mean some
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Abbas backs down militants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
said Monday he expects Hamas to
surrender weapons after Palestinian
elections this summer, but he
stopped short of threatening to dis
arm the Islamic militants by force.
A Hamas official dismissed the
call, saying Abbas should first dis
arm his own Fatah movement.
In violence Monday, Israeli sol
diers shot and killed a Palestinian
taxi driver after his vehicle ran over
and killed an Israeli at a roadblock
near the West Bank city of Hebron,
rescue workers said. Israeli secu
rity officials said it appeared to be a
deliberate attempt to hit the Israeli.
Palestinians said that the driver had
no political ties and that the road
block was not permanent, indicating
the hit and run was an accident.
Abbas has been under pressure
from the United States and Israel to
rein in armed groups, as called for
in the internationally backed “road
map” peace plan. While repeatedly
calling on militants to halt their
attacks on Israel, Abbas has refused
to take action against them, prefer
ring instead to negotiate.
Hamas has said it will take part
in legislative elections set for July
17. It would be the first time the
group has sought a place in the
Palestinian parliament.
During a news conference at his
office in Gaza, Abbas welcomed
Hamas’ desire to join the political
process, but said the group, which
has carried out dozens of suicide
bombings against Israelis, would
be expected to give up its militant
thing a little different to everyone.
Woodard said the store is much
more than his livelihood.
“When you’re happy with your
work, there’s not a lot more you
can ask for,” Woodard said.
While Woodard said he might see
himself cutting back his work hours
in the next five years, it’s going to be
hard to walk away from his store.
“There’s nothing in this world
like waiting on students,” Woodard
said. “They make it such a pleasure
to work; they make you feel young.”
Pinney’s parents met at Sutton’s
in the late 1950s when his mother
ran the cosmetics counter and his
father worked behind the soda
fountain.
But, Pinney said, everyone he
gets to interact with at Sutton’s is
part of the family to him.
“As long as I’m breathing, this
place will be standing.”
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activities after the vote.
“When a movement or militia is
transformed into a political party,
I would say that there will then be
no need for them to possess weap
ons,” Abbas told reporters. “There
will be only one authority, one law,
and one legal gun. The issue is very
clear, and this has been common
practice throughout history.”
However, Hamas spokesman
Sami Abu Zohri said the Islamic
group would disarm only when
Israel ends its occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza, adding that
BUDGET
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port,” he said. “It’s going to take
students telling our representa
tives that this can’t stand.”
Members of the executive
branch have been working to pro
vide students with a voice.
“We’re trying to set up a pretty
substantial lobbying program,” said
Student Body Treasurer Daneen
Furr. “We’re hoping to have stu
dents from all over the state con
tact local news publications to get
local stories in the paper.”
Student officials added a link to
GREENWOOD
FROM PAGE 3
dents of Greenwood, but also of
Chapel Hill," Chapel Hill resident
Robin Cutson said.
But rezoning is upsetting to devel
oper Tom Dicker, who wants to split
up his lot at 715 Greenwood St.
The town received Greenwood’s
request for a conservation district
in February. Dicker then submitted
a request to subdivide his lot. The
rezoning was proposed Feb. 28 after
officials mulled Dicker’s request.
Tucker has expressed frustra
tion over the rezoning, calling it a
suppression of his rights.
But residents countered that
allowing subdivision would bring
in duplexes and rental properties,
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Abbas was in no position to preach
to Hamas since the Palestinian
leader has yet to disarm the military
wing of his own ruling Fatah party,
the A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
“The resistance is tied to the
end of the occupation and not
with joining the Palestinian par
liament,” Abu Zohri said.
The “road map” peace plan calls
on the Palestinians to dismantle
militant groups like Hamas, while
also requiring Israel to freeze set
tlement construction. Neither side
has carried out its obligations.
their Web site http://www.unc.
edu/studgov that connects stu
dents with their representatives.
Provost Robert Shelton said he
hopes the General Assembly will
listen to students’ concerns.
“I do think it’s important for
the students to be heard on this,"
Shelton said. “I’m confident that
the state is going to treat us well.
“There’s a core understanding
of the importance of higher educa
tion in North Carolina. I hope that
will prevail.”
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a future they say would stray from
the neighborhood’s intended path.
Preserving neighborhood char
acter is at the heart of the applica
tions for conservation districts.
The town has already imple
mented conservation districting in
the Northside neighborhood.
The town has recommended
staggering the system so it can
address the needs of each neighbor
hood, but several citizens and coun
cil member Bill Strom are pushing
for what he calls an “express con
servation districting” system.
The council will hear a proposal
May 9 on all three conservation dis
trict applications.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
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