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August Alumni Update

• 60th Reunion evite (Add your name to the list and see who's coming to the reunion)
• It takes villages
• Counting on condos
• Senate backs expanding offshore drilling
• UNC has proud tradition of historic preservation
• Public may get input on project
• Cabarrus' reach for water is delayed
• More Planning jobs
  

Evite.com is the leading social event planning site on the Web,
facilitating more than 10 million invitations to more than 300,000
events each month.

DCRP has created an electronic 60th anniversary invitation to
allow you to track who’s coming to the reunion.  Add your name
and view who else is coming?!

http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/udo@unc.edu/dcrp

Evite or event questions? Contact me at udo@unc.edu

Complete 60th Anniversary information

It Takes Villages
Carolina Alumni Review
John Manuel (MRP '76)

Chapel Hill, always wary of where and how fast it
should grow, sprouted dense suburban development
under the careful watch of planner Roger Waldon '76.
Now all eyes are on the burgeoning downtown.


Chapel Hill is noted for resisting any number of things.
It kept a tight grip on its self-image as a village long after
it had moved into the realm of being a town.  Today, it is
being transformed into a small city.  Traffic backs up at
rush hour, and convenient parking can be hard to find, but
most agree the quality of development is high, and the
desire to live here remains strong.


Enter Chapel Hill from a couple of directions and you see what is meant today by the word “village”: To the east on
N.C. 54 stands Meadowmont Village, considered a model of “new urbanism.”  To the south off U.S. 15-501 is Southern
Village — like Meadowmont, a mixed-use development.  Elsewhere, drivers approaching downtown on West Franklin
Street pass an array of new and renovated buildings.  Head north, and as you cross over I-40, you enter a distinctly
different space, with open woods and farmland — you’ve just experienced the town’s Urban Growth Boundary.

To the extent that all of this reflects the philosophy and practice of the town’s planning department, Roger Waldon ’76
(MRP) had a lot to do with it.  Waldon came to Chapel Hill to attend UNC’s School of City and Regional Planning in 1975,
when concern for both the environment and social justice were beginning…  Read the complete story (PDF)


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programs, the Association promotes a spirit of fellowship and loyalty among the alumni, provides a continuous flow
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Counting on condos
By Lisa Hoppenjans
Chapel Hill News
The brick building on East Franklin Street once housed students and
others in modest apartments with Murphy beds that folded out of the
walls.  Now, nail guns pound and power saws buzz inside.  In November,
McCorkle Place will open with $880,000 to $1.1 million luxury condominiums
with gourmet kitchens and marble tiled bathrooms, right across from the
oak-dotted UNC quad that shares its name.

"I think there's a lot of pent-up demand for this kind of close-in living," said
Kelley Hunter, a listing agent for the property.  Developers are banking on it.  
About 1,000 new residential units, more than 800 of them condominiums, are
planned in and around downtown Chapel Hill.  

Some wonder whether the market can sustain that pace.  

"The big question that no one knows is: How deep is demand?" said Emil Malizia, chairman of the city and regional
planning department at UNC.  "If you show up in a community with the first bar of soap that anybody has ever seen,
you might sell out the first couple of times.  But how long before you saturate the market?"

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/2977196p-9408366c.html

Senate backs expanding offshore drilling
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

The Senate passed an offshore drilling bill Tuesday that differs
significantly from an earlier House version, ensuring another political
battle over the nation's energy policy.


... "Because of the beaches and coastal ecosystem, I think North
Carolina is more liable to serious negative impacts if things go wrong
or are not managed properly," said David Godschalk, professor of city
and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


"I don't think it's a good idea, and the potential for serious damage is too great of a tradeoff."  Not only would the state's
$14 billion tourism industry be affected by unsightly oil rigs looming off the 300-mile-long Tar Heel coast, Godschalk said,
but there is also a major safety threat because of possible damage from hurricanes.

"Oil spills or damage debris would affect the beaches, which are in constant transition, foul delicate coastal plants and
kill wildlife and fishing areas," he said.

http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-757674.html

UNC has proud tradition of historic preservation
The Chapel Hill Herald (Letter to the editor)
Paul Kapp, UNC-Chapel Hill campus historic preservation manager


After reading last Friday's editorial, "UNC should work to save
old buildings," I would like to point out that Carolina's program
in preserving and restoring its campus is perhaps the most
ambitious of its kind in the country.  

I am very proud of our record and I believe we have continued to
make the university special through our extensive program of
renovating its beautiful buildings and grounds.



In the past year, we have restored both New West and New East.  We replaced the roofs on Bynum and Caldwell
halls, restored the exterior of Phillips Hall and completely renovated Kenan, Alderman and McIver residence halls.
I believe everyone in the community is delighted about the beauty and grandeur of the renovated Memorial Hall.

We have also paid attention to some of our smaller monuments such as the Morehead Sundial, having restored
it three years ago, and created new gardens such as the Memorial Grove and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Garden.

A month ago, Chancellor Moeser and President Bowles, along with the Center for the Study of the American South,
celebrated the ongoing renovation of the Center's new home, the Love House and Hutchins Forum, a historic house
on East Franklin Street.  We are also halfway done renovating the Campus Y. At Carolina, we continue to fit
historic preservation within the parameters of our mission, and it is for that reason we have received the
Preservation Society of Chapel Hill Preservation Award the past three years.


Paul Hardin Kapp
UNC-Chapel Hill campus historic preservation manager

Learn more about New East’s historic past

Cabarrus' reach for water is delayed
After 4 years, state wants more local input
By David Mildenberg
Charlotte Business Journal

State officials are pushing back the decision on Cabarrus County's
controversial effort to pull water from the Catawba River.  For more than five
years Concord and Kannapolis have been angling for the right to draw more
than 35 million gallons of water a day from the river.  Leaders say it's their
biggest economic-development issue because the Rocky River and Coddle
Creek can't sustain the fast-growing county's long-term needs.

...During the Environmental Management Commission's meeting this week,
Chairman David Moreau urged the state Division of Water Resources staff to
take a broad view of the impact of transfers from the Catawba.  Moreau is a
UNC Chapel Hill professor who specializes in water-resource issues.