The Chapel Hill Town Council will hold a concept plan review Wednesday night for a development proposal on Erwin Road near Fordham Boulevard.
Summit Hospitality has submitted a concept plan to expand the current Residence Inn on Erwin Road. The plan also calls for the development of an apartment complex on the Erwin Road property adjacent to the hotel.
Overall, the concept plan calls for 280,000 square feet of new construction split between a 50-room, five-story expansion of the existing Residence Inn and a new 140 residential unit apartment complex on the vacant lot next to the hotel.
The concept plan has been through a review by the town’s Community Design Commission. Commission members and the public expressed concerns over traffic impacts of the new development and the environmental impact. There is a pond on the property that was hollowed out roughly 70 years ago, according to the applicant, to serve as a watering hole for cattle that grazed the land. The concept plan calls for removing the pond and proposes a new stormwater management system to “reduce water flow and potential flooding for the adjacent residents.”
Emails from neighbors of the proposed development have been coming in waves to the town council since late August opposing the proposal.
The meeting Wednesday will allow for the town council to review the proposal and submit feedback to the applicant before any permit application is submitted. The council would have to approve rezoning the property before the project could move forward.
Wednesday night’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in Chapel Hill Town Hall.
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