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Coker Hills jumpstarts conservation talks
BY MEGHAN DAVIS
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Residents of one Chapel Hill
neighborhood want to preserve
the tree-lined streets and wooded
areas of their community.
That’s why inhabitants of the
Coker Hills neighborhood sat
down with former town planning
director Roger Waldon on Sunday
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neighborhood conservation district
which would set specific zoning
limits to preserve the area’s distinct
characteristics.
“Walking through Coker Hills,
there’s a seamlessness that we want
to try to preserve,” resident Janet
Kagan said.
After the Northside neigh
borhood became a conservation
district in February, four other
Officials: Principal’s shoes hard to fill
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Only a month into the school
year, the faculty of Chapel Hill High
School is facing major changes in
the school’s composition.
Last week, Mary Ann Hardebeck,
the school’s principal of five years,
announced her resignation, effec
tive in November.
“It was a very difficult decision to
make,” Hardebeck said Friday. “I’m
very attached to the people here.”
Hardebeck is taking a position in
Virginia as the director of high school
education in Loudon County.
“We can have someone to come
and replace the vision, but we can
never replace her,” said English
teacher Joanne McClelland.
Hardebeck noted that changes
always bring concerns in the short
term, but in the end, everything wifi
be resolved.
“In the long term, it’s always an
opportunity for growth.”
Hardebeck led a team of four
assistant principals at Chapel Hill
historic neighborhoods Kings
Mill/Morgan Creek, Greenwood,
Pine Knolls and Coker Hills all
petitioned the Chapel Hill Town
Council in April to be granted the
same status.
The town hired Waldon and his
company, Clarion Associates, LLC,
to lead the neighborhood conser
vation project.
Residents say they love the char
acter of the neighborhood and its
homes modest, set far back from
the street and far apart from one
another.
Coker Hills was established
in the 1960s by Henry R. Totten,
a student of University botanist
William C. Coker, and the Coker
College for Women.
“This neighborhood has a mix
of residents —some original own
ers, some new families and some
renters,” said Marc Laßranche,
president of the neighborhood
association.
Laßranche said the average
house size in Coker Hills is 2,900
square feet.
Waldon cautioned that zon
ing cannot address every concern
the neighborhood might have
it only can set rules on physical
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Chapel Hill
High School
Principal
Mary Ann
Hardebeck
accepted a
job in Virgnia.
High Mervin Jenkins, Pat Harris,
Karla Eanes and Jeff Thomas.
Thomas said he thought that,
because of this team, the process of
acclimating anew principal would
be seamless.
He said that despite Hardebeck’s
departure, the rest of the admin
istrators likely would remain on
staff.
And the search for their new
leader already has begun.
“We will probably think through
options for appointing an interim
so that someone could come on
board as soon as possible and then
initiate a comprehensive search
for a permanent replacement,”
Superintendent Neil Pedersen
structures.
“Our commonality is to pre
serve Coker Hills,” resident Jill
Blackburn said. “But I don’t
know enough about town rules to
know what we’re missing. That’s
what we need to know (from the
town).”
Waldon presented residents
with a tentative map of the district
and asked the neighbors to speak
up if they had any suggestions.
He said the next step for Coker
Hills is another neighborhood
meeting, tentatively slated for
November.
After that meeting, the town
planning board will draft the
zoning regulations, and by April,
present them to the council, which
will hold a public hearing before
voting.
Two of the other neigh
borhoods also have sched
uled a meeting with Waldon:
Greenwood will meet at Town
Hall on Sept. 21 and Kings Mill/
Morgan Creek will meet Sept. 29
at the N.C. Botanical Gardens
Totten Center.
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Pedersen could not say whether
the replacement likely would be
an administrator from within the
school or the district or someone
brought in from another school
system, as the district has had
examples of both in the past.
The search for Hardebeck’s
successor will involve a multistep
application process.
A selection committee will
review the applicants and make a
recommendation to the superin
tendent, who will in turn recom
mend someone to the school board
for approval, Pedersen said.
But McClelland said the prospect
of bringing in a replacement is mak
Parents, students weigh in
on new middle school name
BY OLIVIA WEBB
STAFF WRITER
Orange County’s much-awaited
new middle school won’t open its
doors until Fall 2006, but locals
already are submitting suggestions
for its name on the Orange County
Schools’ Web site.
In a Web survey that ends Sept.
27, community members have the
opportunity to fill out a brief form
with their ideas for naming the
school— which is in late construc
tion phases on a West Ten Road
Property in Hillsborough.
County schools spokeswoman
Anne D’Annunzio, said ideas already
have been collected via the Web site,
but that it’s not the only source offi
cials will look to for suggestions.
“We’re going to survey the students,
and then the community will be able
to vote,” she said Wednesday.
After collecting all of the names
submitted on the Web site, fourth,
fifth and sixth graders at existing
Orange County schools will be sur
veyed for suggestions. Some of those
students eventually will comprise the
new middle school’s student body.
School board member Libbie
Hough, whose daughter suggested
the name Buckland Middle School,
said the opening of the new school
has been much anticipated.
“It’s an exciting time for any
school district when it opens anew
school,” she said.
D’Annunzio said that a commit
tee of students, parents, staff and
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ing some faculty members nervous,
citing Hardebeck’s ability to meet
goals and listen to her staff.
“When you start looking at all of
her great characteristics as a leader,
then you start to wonder: Am I
going to get a person that’s going to
continue with her vision?” she said.
She said both the teachers and
the administrators could help that
person adjust by sharing with
them Hardebeck’s ideas.
And despite her sadness about
leaving, Hardebeck noted that
change always brings new ideas.
“Change can be very positive.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
SUGGEST A NAME
Go to http://www.orange.
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The deadline is Sept. 27
community members will narrow
the selection down to three names.
They will then conduct a tele
phone survey of parents.
“We have the ability to call all
of the parents in the district and
give them a choice, such as ‘press
one if you like name one, etc,’”
D’Annunzio said.
“The name selected by the tele
phone survey will be the final name
sent to the (Orange County Board
of Education),” she said, “And they
have final authority.
“But they’ll probably go with the
recommendation,” she added.
The committee and students also
will work together on determining a
mascot and colors for the school.
The new middle school will be
Orange County Schools’ third.
Since 1979, the school board has
prohibited naming schools in Orange
County after people and asks that
suggestions focus on well-known
geographical landmarks in the area.
“It makes it more straightfor
ward and non-controversial,” said
D’Annunzio. “And it’s a better way
to name a school.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.