Greene Tract series continues

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Posted by Nancy Oates on January 27, 2020

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  1. plurimus

     /  February 2, 2020

    “I went to an Orange County commissioners meeting last week to hear the discussion on the Greene Tract. I was dismayed to hear some commissioners straying from the facts.” Pray tell, which commissioners were straying from the facts? Were any of them up for re-election in 2020? Were they district 1, 2 or At Large?

  2. Nancy Oates

     /  February 2, 2020

    This isn’t your first rodeo, is it, Plurimus. All of the meetings are video-taped. Here’s the link to the page of meeting videos, and you can make the call yourself: https://www.orangecountync.gov/967/Meeting-Videos

  3. Plurimus

     /  February 6, 2020

    You’re no fun at all…..

  4. Plurimus

     /  February 6, 2020

    OK after watching the video, the main takeaways I have is the tension between the County and Chapel Hill vision for the property still exists. I was surprised to hear undercurrents of Carrboro considering backing out of their 14% ownership. (I think that would be a good thing). I think Hongbin must be frustrated because she sees the argument pointless until the know specifically what is possible (I agree). I did not hear a lot of misinformation, more misperception…..inadequate information and misunderstanding.

  5. Nancy Oates

     /  February 6, 2020

    “You’re no fun at all …”
    I’ve been told that before.

  6. Nancy Oates

     /  February 6, 2020

    At the Assembly of Governments, everyone was pretty much on their good behavior. At the county commissioners’ meeting the week prior, we heard one commissioner claiming that Chapel Hill had “pulled out” of the negotiating process, and another commissioner objecting to people in southern Chapel Hill wanting a park in northern Chapel Hill, and another commissioner positing that Chapel Hill is the only party, of Orange County, Carrboro and Chapel Hill, that is not accountable politically for what happens in the Greene Tract. Altogether, it came across as trash-talking Chapel Hill. Ineffective in trying to move the process forward.

  7. Pluramus

     /  February 6, 2020

    Wow. I miss all the dirt. I guess I am just lucky. I can imagine who is saying these things, but this party has their own agenda and seems intent on messing around in ToCH business (e.g. Gateway)

    it seems like it is pretty much a negotiation between the county and the ToCH. Carrboro seems less and less interested and I sense they have their own problems. I can’t see how the ToCH would not be “accountable” when the property is in their ETJ? Maybe I am not understanding the point that commissioner was trying to make.

    I feel like the whole thing is going to fall apart again.