{"id":3313,"date":"2015-12-31T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2015-12-31T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:03:42","slug":"learn-about-booker-creek-town-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/learn-about-booker-creek-town-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Hill Booker Creek Watershed Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Town Announcement:<\/strong>\u00a0 Learn about what the Town hopes to achieve for improving water quality and reducing flooding by studying the Booker Creek Watershed.\u00a0 Attend the Lower Booker Creek Subwatershed Study Information session hosted by the Town\u2019s consultant W. K. Dickson.<\/p>\n

Join us Thursday, January 7th,<\/strong>
\n 11:30 am – 1:30 pm or<\/span>\u00a0 5:30 – 7:30 pm<\/strong>
\n Meeting Room B, Chapel Hill Public Library<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For more information and to take the online survey, visit www.lowerbookercreeksws.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At this information session, you will be invited to share your observations and concerns about stormwater issues in the Booker Creek Watershed. Each session will begin with an opportunity to hear a short presentation and ask questions and end with a wrap-up session.<\/p>\n

Contact Inga Kennedy at inga@peqatl.com<\/a> for more information.
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The Town’s stormwater studies will make recommendations about how water quality can be improved and flooding can be mitigated.<\/p>\n

Background supplied by CHALT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Leading up to the May 2014 Ephesus-Fordham Zoning District<\/a> vote, town council meetings attracted the concern of hundreds of citizens who viewed the new form-base zone zone as a give-away to development interests.\u00a0 The new zone conferred huge density and “fast-track” review but asked nothing on behalf of the community\u00a0 interest, i.e.,\u00a0 community space, energy efficient building or affordable housing.<\/p>\n

At the urging of the Stormwater Advisory Board and other environmentalists, the town council agreed to require water quality treatment for each project redeveloped or built in the new district. Maintenance of those stormwater facilities will be paid for by a district tax levied on the businesses in the district.<\/p>\n

Control over the volume of stormwater,\u00a0 as omitted from the plans for the new zone.\u00a0 Much of the nearly 200 acres of the Ephesus-Fordham district (including Eastgate and Whole Foods area) are located\u00a0 at the bottom of the Booker Creek watershed.\u00a0 We can expect that as the 3 – 4 million square feet of already approved projects located in the upper parts of the watershed are constructed,\u00a0 the volume of water flowing through this area will increase and flooding downstream will increase.<\/p>\n

For more information on the North Carolina Legislative Changes to the Town’s development rules and ordinances,\u00a0 attend the January 14, 5:30 pm briefing at Town Hall. View details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Town Announcement:\u00a0 Learn about what the Town hopes to achieve for improving water quality and reducing flooding by studying the Booker Creek Watershed.\u00a0 Attend the Lower Booker Creek Subwatershed Study Information session hosted by the Town\u2019s consultant W. K. Dickson. Join us Thursday, January 7th, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm or\u00a0 5:30 – 7:30 pm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-booker-creek-town-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}