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Aldermen alter creek plans
Carolina North
plans left alone
BY KATHY CHO
STAFF WRITER
Preserving Bolin Creek is
important, but so is respecting
UNC’s plans for Carolina North,
the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
decided Tuesday.
The aldermen voted to approve
a modified version of the draft map
for conservation areas in the upper
Bolin Creek watershed. The area
skirts around Carolina North.
“The time is ripe to go ahead
and adopt a conservation map,”
said Mayor Mike Nelson, who also
called the motion a “real significant
advance.”
The new map has been refined
to reflect property boundaries, omit
some areas that will be developed
and incorporate suggestions made
by local nonprofit the Friends of
Bolin Creek at a Sept. 20 public
hearing, said Noah Ranells, the
town’s environmental planner.
The Friends of Bolin Creek had
presented its own conservation
map, which included the creation
of a park. Half of that overlapped
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tally good idea to house people
close to where they’d be working,”
he said.
University senior Tom Jensen,
who works with Baker in Young
Democrats, said Baker has the
determination necessary to win.
“The thing people need to know
about Jason is that he’s incredibly
driven,” he said. “He’ll work 20
hours a day to get something.”
Students for a Progressive
Chapel Hill, led by Jensen, is
endorsing Baker for council.
Baker has called for a thorough
examination of the town’s current
public transit schedule to better
define what ate as need more or
less service.
“I really don’t feel like we need
to be saying, ‘you know, we have
an adequate transit plan,’ without
adequately studying that,” Baker
said.
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Chapel Hill,” she said. “It became a
kind of hippie enclave.”
DeVine also said she appreciates
Carrboro’s small-town character.
“Something else about Carrboro
it’s flat,” she said. “The geogra
phy lends itself perfectly to that
walkability thing we’re always talk
ing about.”
She wants to help Carrboro
maintain its quaintness in the
future, even with new develop
ments springing up.
She said she is certain there will
be a referendum to preserve Bolin
Creek in perpetuity, but questions
remain about how much control
the town should have.
“I have questions to ask before
we run this up the flagpole,”
DeVine said. “Does that mean the
town is responsible for cleaning
the creek, or leaving it alone?”
To double the town’s commer
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Newton were required to amend
their reports.
Newton and Haven-O'Donnell
were dinged for not providing
sufficient employment informa
tion about donors. Raymond had
typos in his receipts, particularly in
Paypal donations he had received.
While each mayoral candidate in
Chapel Hill so far has thrown down
the $5 filing fee and naught more,
Peter Walz of Democracy N.C., a
Carrboro-based watchdog group,
said that a national trend of high
er-cost elections has filtered down
to the most local of elections.
“You see it all the way down to
these little local races like Chapel
Hill Town Council where people
are spending thousands of dollars,”
Walz said.
Kevin Foy has $9,810 of his own
money to spend, though it shows
up as a loan from his person to his
campaign, loaned out at five per
cent interest.
The only candidates for the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen to file
a report were challenger Haven-
O'Donnell and incumbent John
Herrera.
Haven-O’Donnell has raised
$1,675 so far, but only has had
to spend $lO, while Herrera has
raised sl2 and spent $24.
But Herrera has more than SSOO
already on hand, regardless of how
much he’s raised.
Perhaps the most financially
nonchalant character in this year’s
election has been Chapel Hill may
oral candidate Kevin Wolff.
Having raised S3O, he’s got $25
on hand, which indicates he might
not be planning an advertising blitz
anytime in the near future.
with the area UNC tentatively set
aside for Carolina North.
That would be the group’s big
gest challenge, said Dave Otto,
chairman of the organization, in an
interview before the meeting.
It was stressed many times at the
meeting that the lines on the map
were not yet set in stone, and that the
map had no regulatory significance.
“It doesn’t create an enforceable
obligation,” said Town Attorney
Michael Brough.
Otto said the map should be con
sidered a guideline for the town’s
vision for preserving the creek.
“(The lines) are there to look at,
think about and modify,” he said.
Aldermen focused on the friends’
suggested line, which wiggled
through Carolina North’s footprint
The friends originally had sug
gested that the entire Horace
Williams Tract area in Carrboro
be preserved with the exception of
the northeast comer.
“I support the Friends of Bolin
Creek map with the addition of the
conservation areas that (town staff)
outlined,” Nelson said. “However, I
don’t support including the entire
Horace Williams Tract.”
Other aldermen agreed.
“The University has been very
The evaluation also would
address environmental concerns,
he hopes.
“It’s kind of embarrassing
Chapel Hill is supposed to be the
bastion of environmental concerns,
and we don’t ran on biodiesel,” he
said. “Durham has buses that ran
on biodiesel.”
Baker also advocates estab
lishing wireless Internet in low
income areas and increasing work
to solve a turnover problem plagu
ing Franklin Street.
And Baker is keeping his peers
in mind. “I hope that students
take interest in the elections,” he
said.
“Mark Chilton told me he was
jealous that I could talk to 90 per
cent of the student population on
Facebook with only a couple of
clicks. As the elections get closer,
maybe I’ll ‘poke’ everybody.”
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cial tax base, as stated in the Vision
2020 development plan, DeVine
said she wants to see professional
offices fill in empty spaces down
town.
“I would love to attract busi
ness spinoff from UNC, little think
tanks,” she said.
As the town’s tax base expands,
residential taxes will be less of a
burden on homeowners, allowing
houses to be more affordable, she
said.
DeVine said infilling down
town could happen in taller
buildings than currently are
allowed without changing the
face of Carrboro.
“The appearance of our town
is a quality of life issue for many
people,” she said.
“One of my chief objectives as
an alderman will be to maintain
that quality.”
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Other candidates have spent rel
atively large sums on advertising.
Laurin Easthom, who has spent
the most of any Town Council
candidate, also has the most signs
up of any council candidate, with
much of the field of candidates yet
to drive home sign stakes.
Likewise, Newton, another big
spender, has dropped sizable sums
to printing shops in different parts
of North Carolina.
Candidates have printed up all
manner of items with their names
on them.
Baker has designed posters for
use in dorms, Mark Kleinschmidt
ordered extra large signs so he
didn’t have to shrink his name, and
virtually every candidate has stick
ers galore.
A Democracy N.C. study in
2003 found that in Town Council
races from 1995 to 2001, the top
four spenders won one of the four
available seats on council more
than two-thirds of the time.
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Jordan Rosado, a University graduate, walks on the Bolin Creek trail
Tuesday. Carrboro leaders voted in favor of an area conservation map.
cooperative with Carrboro at
least in preserving the creek,” said
Alderman Jacquelyn Gist.
Otto presented his group’s view
on the revised map to the aldermen.
“We are pleased that the latest map
includes the boundaries of the core
park we proposed last fall,” he said.
The group’s minor reservations
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dirty blonde.
“He’s completely different than
me,” says Dang, a Vietnamese
junior majoring in journalism.
Dang met Galloway, a white his
tory major, in an astronomy class
during her freshman year, and the
pair started dating officially two
months ago.
Galloway says he’s enjoyed try
ing new things with Dang.
“I’ve had to learn chop stick
skills because before they were hor
rible,” he says.
But not everything they teach
each other is along cultural lines.
Dang says she is the one who intro
duced Galloway to Jack Daniel’s
grilling sauce.
Sometimes when they go to
more traditional Asian restau
rants and shops, Galloway says he
gets stares, but they are not con
descending.
“They were just stares of inter
est, like, what is that?” he says of
a shopping trip at a Vietnamese
grocery store.
Although Dang has not intro
duced Galloway to her parents yet,
she says they find other criteria in
a boyfriend more important than
race.
“They’re more concerned about
what he studies and how good he
is in school,” she says. “They’re con
cerned about how well he treats
me.”
Galloway says he was intrigued
by Dang because he enjoyed being
around her.
“She’s very spunky,” he says. “We
just clicked very well.”
He says he never thought to cat
egorize their relationship racially
when they started dating.
“I never thought about, I’m dat
ing an Asian,” he says. It was more,
“I’m dating a hot girl.”
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But Walz said while having a
flashy campaign will help get vot
ers’ attention, it may not be the key
to success.
“If that message doesn’t reso
nate, then you’re not necessarily
going to be elected,” he said.
But, he added, “It certainly is
going to give you a much better
chance.”
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included the omission of the two
P. G. Craig Tracts south of the
Carolina North site, and the group’s
disagreement with the Carolina
North footprint itself, Otto said.
“We think very highly of (local
nonprofit The Village Project’s
alternative) plan,” he said. “That
calls for nothing to be built in the
Carrboro sector. It should be care
fully considered.”
The Village Project had
announced its alternate plan for
Carolina North during the sum
mer, with an emphasis on environ
mental sustainability and reducing
dependence on cars.
Still, Otto said, the area within the
Carolina North area was “very nego
tiable,” as he acknowledged that the
flat terrain lends itself to building.
After the aldermen passed the
revisions, Alderman Alex Zaffron
suggested taking steps to draw up
plans for moving forth with conser
vation, such as considering ways to
raise funds to buy the land.
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challenges Bowles will face dur
ing his tenure are budget issues.
He said faculty salaries will remain
in the spotlight.
He added that Bowles under
stands how to relate university
issues to state issues and that his
goals include looking at literacy,
health care and connecting to pub
lic schools.
Spangler said Bowles will have
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2005
Board to weigh
naming options
for high school
BY KYLE BILLINGS
STAFF WRITER
This week the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Board of Education will
begin the process of selecting a
name for its new high school.
The school will join two others in
the area that have taken the route
of locality: Chapel Hill High School
and East Chapel Hill High School.
The question of the new school
continuing the trend now arises.
Board policy 9300 considers
three possibilities for naming new
schools: in honor or in memory of
an educational or community leader
or financial contributor or in recog
nition of the geographic locality of
the school.
The policy further states that
the naming of anew school should
involve everyone in the community.
Candidates for school names are
suggested through public forums,
e-mails and surveys on the board’s
Web site. Mel and Zora Rashkis
were nominated in 2002 and were
chosen among other candidates to
be honored with the opening of
Rashkis Elementary School.
The school board makes the final
decision on the selected nominees.
School board chairwoman Lisa
Stuckey explained the process:
“The school board eventually
decides upon the names suggested
by a chosen committee,” she said.
“This committee seeks input from
the community, evaluates the
names, then makes recommenda
tions to the school board.
“The committee seeks feedback
widely from the individuals and
groups of the community.”
Stuckey also indicated a recent
trend in school naming.
“Over the last several years, mid
to familiarize himself immediately
with all 16 campuses and their var
ious constituencies something
Bowles already has said he plans
to do.
He also said Bowles is joining a
system that is ultimately healthy.
“He’ll be like a doctor do no
harm at first and then build on the
strength of the university.”
Spangler said the situation was
similar when Friday left office in
1986. The system was in good shape
and all he had to do was maintain
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die schools and elementary schools
have been named for a person. As
we approach the third (area) high
school, it will be interesting to see.”
But not all in the community are
anxious to see this trend continue.
Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn
Gist is opposed the idea.
“I would like to see it named
Carrboro High School,” she said.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve
had a Carrboro high school. We have
Carrboro Elementary, so having a
Carrboro Elementary and a Carrboro
high school would be veiy neat.”
She also mentioned that with
every prominent person in the
community who is honored with
a school in his or her name, other
deserving people go unhappy.
Orange County Schools institut
ed a policy in 1979 that prohibits the
naming of schools after people.
This will apply in the naming pro
cess of the new middle school, which
is approaching its final stages.
Orange County Schools
spokeswoman Anne D’Annunzio
explained the reasons for a loca
tion-based name. “It creates a lot of
emotional significance, it takes out
political issues and makes it easier
to remember,” she said.
D’Annunzio said the county
school board has narrowed the name
search to three: Crossroads Middle
School, Gravely Middle School and
Woodlands Middle School.
The final vote will be Oct. 17.
The Chapel-Hill Carrboro Board
of Education meets Thursday to
begin the name-choosing process
for the new Carrboro high school. A
final decision will be made Jan. 19.
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the strength of the 16 campuses.
But Spangler warned against
putting too much emphasis on
Bowles serving as the next system
president.
“The university is more impor
tant than any one of us individu
als,” he said. “It’s important who is
the president. But more important
is what the university is and what
it will be.”
Contact the State and National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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