The developer for Aydan Court proposes to build 90 condos on a Natural Heritage site on the edge of the eastern entrance way to Chapel Hill on Highway 54, east of Meadowmont. The Council denied a rezoning two years ago. On June 20th the Town Council will again decide whether to rezone this land. Please urge the Council to deny this rezoning for these reasons.
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Dear Mayor and Council:
Please reject the rezoning of the Aydan Court land. The town’s land use map zones this property for low density, or “open space,” which should remain until the Town’s comprehensive plan is revisited later this year. The property contains critical wildlife habitat and is adjacent to sensitive wetlands and public game lands for hunting and fishing. Removing 70% of trees will cause erosion and runoff that affects an already impaired Jordan Lake, which supplies drinking water to half a million people.
In addition, the proposed development does not comply with the Town’s steep slopes ordinance, and the market for condominiums is already saturated.
Approving this proposal would set a precedent that any property in Chapel Hill can be rezoned to meet a developer’s goals, including Charterwood, Obey Creek, or my neighborhood. I respectfully request that the Town Council deny this rezoning.
Name
Chapel Hill resident
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The town currently has a zoning requirement for this piece of property which is located next to a wetlands and headwaters for Jordan Lake. The proposed rezoning is inappropriate for this location and will create additional pollution burden on Jordan Lake. It is not the town’s purpose to make sure that every developer makes a tidy profit on the property they have purchased. The purchased understood the zoning requirements for this land when she purchased it, and has since then attempted to get it rezoned which has always been inappropriate.
Dear Mayor and Council:
Please reject the rezoning of the Aydan Court land.
The property contains critical wildlife habitat and is adjacent to sensitive wetlands and public game lands for hunting and fishing.
Removing 70% of trees will cause erosion and runoff that affects an already impaired Jordan Lake, which supplies drinking water to half a million people.
In addition, the proposed development does not comply with the Town’s steep slopes ordinance, and the market for condominiums is already saturated.
Approving this proposal would set a precedent that any property in Chapel Hill can be rezoned to meet a developer’s goals, including Charterwood, Obey Creek, or my neighborhood. I respectfully request that the Town Council deny this rezoning.
Peg Rees
Chapel Hill resident
Dear Mayor and Town Council
I am writing you to request that you reject the rezoning of the Aydan Court land. This area functions as a wildlife habitat and is adjacent to sensitive wetlands.
As a native of North Carolina who relocated to Chapel Hill after being out of state for 25 years, I can tell you that the many undeveloped treed areas were a major factor in my decision. I can assure you that I am not alone. Removing a majority of the trees in this area will reduce the number of undeveloped sites that make our town so attractive to affluent retirees and other people relocating to the area. And the negative impact is not only economic. Tree removal will lead to erosion and eventually runoff that will further impair Jordan Lake.
Furthermore, in tough economic times, it makes no sense to allow the development of yet more condominiums. The market in the Triangle is already saturated, and numerous projects, including in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, have gone bankrupt. I respectfully request that you consider the long-range implications of this project and refuse to rezone the property just to accommodate a developer.
Emily Lees
1516 Cumberland Rd
Chapel Hill, NC
Let’s not make this look like 15-501 in Durham!!!!! We do not need more cheap housing!
Mary Jo, I think you mean we don’t need any more LUXURY CONDOS, let alone 90 of them in three tall, East 54-like buildings built in a very environmentally sensitive location so close to a creek that flows into Jordan Lake. If more developers were in the business of building “cheap” housing in this town that people could actually afford, you wouldn’t see overpriced projects like Greenbridge in foreclosure. But let’s maintain the lowest-density zoning standards possible for areas like this one, next door to the Waterfowl Impoundment, and respect the natural areas that make our community special. If you haven’t already, e-mail the Town Council before Monday night and tell them to reject Aydan Court!