UNC-CH trustees approve design guidelines for Carolina North
Published: Wed, Nov. 19, 2008 05:10PM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill have signed off on a series of guidelines that will help dictate how the university's Carolina North campus will look.
Trustees, during a meeting today, approved a broad set of guiding principles touching on everything from density to building height on the campus slated to be built on land west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The approvals of the guidelines are the latest step in a long process now mired in delay. The first building UNC-CH had hoped to build at Carolina North, a facility where lab research could be spun off into private enterprise, has already been put off due to the weak economy.
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Roger Perry, chairman of the board of trustees, said this week that delay is actually to the benefit of the town and university, since town leaders will now have a chance to approve these design guidelines before voting on the specific Innovation Center plan.
The design guidelines are intended to help lead a development process expected to take several decades.
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"The buildings could be quite massive," said University Architect Anna Wu, "In keeping with our interest in increasing density."
At a meeting earlier this week, some members of the Chapel Hill Town Council said they wished the UNC board had gathered community input on the design guidelines prior to approving them.
But Perry said approving the guidelines would give town leaders and citizens a template to follow as planning continues.
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