The Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) will soon host a meeting for public comment on a draft Brownfields Redevelopment Section agreement with The Town of Chapel Hill. The agreement addresses coal ash at Town property at 828 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The upcoming September 18 meeting will take place at the Chapel Hill Public Library at 6:30 p.m. It will also be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person.
- When: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Where: Chapel Hill Public Library, Room B 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC
- To listen to the meeting online: https://bit.ly/3YSigjS
- Webinar Number 2420 264 2134
- Webinar Password: NCDEQ (62337 when dialing from a phone or video system)
The NCDEQ draft agreement, which describes development possibilities for the property and current site of Chapel Hill’s police department, was released for public comment on July 1. It stated that the site should only be used for a municipal service center, office or retail buildings, recreational space, transit uses, and associated parking for all those options.
“I do want to remind people that no decisions are being made about the future of the property at this time,” Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson said in a recent interview with 97.9 The Hill.
Rather, she explained that the meeting is a final opportunity for NCDEQ to receive public input before the finalized draft goes to the Town Council. The council, she said, will then discuss potential uses for the property.
“And then DEQ says ‘Well, if you want it to be this, this is what’s going to be encompassed in here, and then this is what you would have to do in order to make it safe for that use,’” said the mayor. “So we won’t be deciding what the use is [yet], just what’s possible and what level of mitigation we’re agreeing to for the various uses.”
According to a NCDEQ release, the public meeting will also include a presentation on the NC Brownfields Program, site-specific summary of results, the work the town will be required to perform, and the land use restrictions imposed by the brownfields agreement.
More information about the site and the upcoming meeting can be found here.
Featured photo via Town of Chapel Hill.
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