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for Carrboro pilot plant • • October -opening is announced Wright Machinary Company Division of Sperry Rand Corporation will open a small pilpt plant in Carrboro for the manufacture of rnp$>rs for business (machines. A joint announcement of the decision was made today by Wright and fey the Orange Industrial Development Corporation. Wright has leased a 3,600 square feet section of Lloyd's Warehouse on S. Greensboro St. in Carrboro. The operation there will employ five to 10 people and may expand, it was announced. J. C. Hydrick, Wright Vice President and Acting General Manager, said that the Carrboro project would be directed by O. S. Esval, Wright Vice President and Manager of the company's Motor Products Division. Equipment will be installed starting in October and actual operations are scheduled to begin in December. The motors to be manufactured in Carrboro wilt be used in business machines such as electric typewriters, adding machines, and calculators. They are high volume production products. They are of a different type than Wright’s line of sub-miniature servo motors, synchros, and rotating components manufactured in the Durham plant. "The Carrboro availability, which the Orange County citizens group brought to our attention, is dose to Durham and is well suited to our needs. We wish to thank them and Durham's Committee of 100 for their fine cooperation" Hydride said, Wright was established in 1893 and employs approximately 850 people. In addition to motors, Wright develops and manufactures automatic machinery and electro-mechanical products for Industry and Defense. Appeal for'understandable language' ... Boards eye changes in zoning law A considerable number of changes in Chapel Hill’s com prehensive zoning ordinance were suggested by members of the Planning Board and Boards of Aldermen and Adjustment in a joint meeting Tuesday night. Members of all three groups joined \vith Adjustment Bbard Chairman Dr. J. T. Dobbins in appealing for re-writing of the ordinance in more generally un derstandable language. There was even a variance of opinion among the Boards, during their following discussions, as to the meaning of certain portions of the local laws. “I think the whole ordinance ought to be gone over carefully at^J clari fied.” said Dr. .Dobbins. f Building - Inspector Howard Stewart suggested that a special use permit be required for eon-1 struction of any building con ' laming more than five units. He said he felt this was the basic intent of the existing ordinance, but noted that it did not apply for instance, in the case ol' the current construction of the 104 unit Towne House apartment building, being put up as one large, single structure. Seek Sign Control The building inspector also said he’d like to see a control ordinance adopted for signs in the downtown business districts. This was discussed by the alder men twice in recent years, but has not cbjpe oerore them again since being referred back to thr Merchants Association about a year ago. In addition the building in spector suggested adoption of a minimum housing standards , act and the N. C. State Build ing Code, as was authorized My last spring.: Former Planning Board mem ber Pearson Stewart. Executive Secretary of the Research T»’i angle Planning Commission, pre sented the planning Board's work program for the coming year. lie urged that a general j land use development plan for! the suburban area be drawn up1 and. adopted. About $15,000 is; Would alter bypass routes . . . changes proposed 1 i The Stale Highway Commis sion’s Advance Planning Depart ment has proposed several sign! ■rant changes in Chapel Hill’s tentatively-adopted major street and thoroughfare plan. Maps outlining the total plan and the suggested changes were distributed to the District Plan , ning Board and the Town alder men at their joint meeting Tues- ' day night. Consideration of the proposals was referred to the planners for a recommendation. Adopt in near future The aldermen indicated they hoped to be able to finally adopt the, plan in the nepr futpre,. with the idea that upon so doing the State would assume responsibil ity for certain proposed street additions and improvements in the Chapel Hill area. /“Among the changes proposed hjf the State in the long-range network of streets and high ways are: (1) ¥o make Estes Drive the east-epd link in an eventual nor thern loop road around Chapel Hill from the Durham koad through to the Greensboro high way (N. <1. 54)- An all-new road would be constructed connecting to Estes Drive and running .pint' south of the airport anti amiss the old Hillsboro highway near the end of N, Creenshoro St. and on to Highway 54. (A northern' bypass along Bolin Creek is also' projected.) (2i Elimination of an outer loop northern bypass that would; begin several miles out on the Durham Boulevard and connect the above - mentioned northern bypass at the Estes Drive-Airport R4- intersection. (3) Elimination of the outer-' most of three belt highways (in cluding the existing bypass high way)1 around the southeast side of Chapel Hill. Instead a new link, closer in, and paralleling the existing bypass between the , Durham apd Raleigh Roads would be built. (4) Elimination of a proposed extension of Cameron Ave. i through to Smith Level Rd. (A straight extension of W. Frank lin St. through Smith Level Rd. ; is still projected.) (5) Inclusion of Farrington Mill Rd. as a major link in the future network of feeder and arterial roads. proposed for expenditure in sur veys that will include plans for the approaches to Chapel Hill and the downtown areas, he said Introduces Planners Mr. Stewart aiso introduced Charles Turner, who will be the Planning Board’s planning as sistant this coming year; Lucian Faust of the Triangle Planning Commission staff who will di rect the local planners’ survey work; and Jeff Wingfield, who will be doing some of this work The aldermen Dy resolution asked the planning board for study of and recommendations on sewer lines and utility ex tension policies. Planning Board members F. Stuart Chapin and Jimmy Wal lace said they felt the develop ment of open space areas in new subdivisions should be encour aged and possibly required. Mayor Sandy McClamroch said he felt that in general the Board of Alderman would be interest cd in accepting and maintaining such areas as publie property. 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