2016 CAROLINA NORTH ANNUAL REPORT

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1 2016 CAROLINA NORTH ANNUAL REPORT REPORTING PERIOD: JULY 1, 2015-JUNE 30, 2016 Prepared by UNC-CH Failities Planning & Design 8/30/2016

2 I Ativities to Report A. Housing Units onstruted: None. Estimated number of residents living in Carolina North Housing: None. Estimated number of Full Time Equivalent employees working on site at Carolina North, as of June 30, 2016: 1 FTE employee at Horae Williams Airport 2 FTE employees at Carolina North Forest Management offie 7 FTE employees at the Chapel Hill Polie Department substation 1.5 FTE Grounds Department employees 10 FTE employees at the UNC Horizons Child Development Center 9 FTE Housekeeping Department employees B. Parking, Traffi and Transit Report on parking provided vs. baseline parking ratios: The University has not onstruted any new failities, nor provided any additional parking during this reporting period. The Chapel Hill Polie ontinue to have nonexlusive use of parking adjaent to their leased building. Current status of transit planning for Carolina North Projet and oordination within Short Range Transit Plan proess: The Town and the University ontinue to work on several transit planning efforts that will impat aess to Carolina North. The Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan, funded in part by a half-ent sales tax approved by Orange County voters, supports development of light rail transit between Orange and Durham ounties, Page 1 of 17

3 as well as other transit system enhanements throughout the County and Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Transit Partners have agreed upon the use of portions of the inreased funding reeived by Chapel Hill Transit, inluding additional servies have been implemented sine August The North-South Corridor Study is an alternatives analysis of bus rapid transit options along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The transit improvements being analyzed, if funded, would serve Carolina North. A loally preferred alternative was seleted by the Chapel Hill Town Counil on April 27, 2016, and steps are being taken to advane the projet to the next level of study. Additional information on the report and this alternative an be found at: Preferred-Alternative-v2-final.pdf. Coordination with Transportation Management Plan: Transportation Management Plan oordination was not required beause the University had no development during the reporting period. Short Range Fisal Plan Ations taken to address reommendations in the most reent SRFP: No ativity to report during this period. The initial SRFP is to be ompleted in onjuntion with the issuane of an initial site development permit. C. Land Use and Ativities in Limited Chilled water, steam, eletri dutbank, water and teleom lines: No ativity on hilled water, steam lines, eletri dutbank, water or teleom lines. Relaimed water line (with OWASA): No ativity to report for this period. Page 2 of 17

4 Maintenane and improvements to existing utility lines: No ativity to report for this period. Stormwater lines and improvements: No ativity to report for this period. Stormwater strutures: No ativity to report for this period. Publi utility lines traversing site: No ativity to report for this period. Utility strutures without a building (e.g., eletrial substation): No ativity to report for this period. Alterations to utility equipment (generator, other mehanials): No ativity to report for this period. Site storage and onstrution staging areas: No ativity to report for this period. Stream restoration projets: No ativity to report for this period. Greenways and other paved trails: No ativity to report for this period. Publi art: No ativity to report for this period. Site learing for any other purpose: No ativity to report for this period. Alterations (but not expansion) in existing parking lots, inluding repaving, replanting for stormwater mitigation, et.: No ativity to report for this period. Roads, internal servie without exterior onnetions and not designed for vehiular irulation to serve buildings within Carolina North developed area: No ativity to report for this period. Exterior tennis and basketball ourts: No ativity to report for this period. Athleti failities and events that are not buildings and that do not involve land learing or grading of more than 20,000 square feet: April 2016: Wildflower Walk sponsored by FOBC/Dave Otto; Page 3 of 17

5 April 2016: Orienteering sponsored by Bakwoods Orienteering Klub (BOK)/David Waller; April-June 2016: Weekly Runs sponsored by Trailheads; April-June 2016: UNC Cross Country (XC) Team Training sponsored by UNC Athletis; April-May 2016: Orienteering sponsored by Kelly Sears/Smith Middle Shool; April-June 2016: Youth Mountain Bike (MTB) Rides sponsored by Team Jammer/Kids On Bikes Riding Around (KOBRA); April-June 2016: HS XC training sponsored by Group Hassan; April-June 2016: Meetup Rides sponsored by Triangle Off-Road Cylists (TORC); May 2016: Philosopher s Way Trail Run sponsored by Trailheads; January 2016: Trail Rae sponsored by Trailheads; January-Marh 2016: Weekly Trail Runs sponsored by Trailheads; January-Marh 2016: Youth MTB Rides sponsored by Team Hammer/KOBRA; January-Marh 2016: UNC XC Team Training sponsored by UNC Athletis; January-Marh 2016: Meetup Rides sponsored by TORC; July 2015: HS XC training sponsored by Group Hassan; September 2015: High Shool XC meets; September 2015: Orienteering sponsored by BOK/David Waller; July-September 2015: Weekly Runs sponsored by Trailheads; July-September 2015: UNC XC Team Training sponsored by UNC Athletis; July-September 2015: Youth MTB Rides sponsored by Team Hammer/KOBRA; July-September 2015: Meetup Rides sponsored by TORC; Otober 2015: Pumpkin Run rae sponsored by Fleet Feet; Page 4 of 17

6 Otober 2015: Mountain Bike Demo sponsored by Clean Mahine; November 2015: Walk for limate hange sponsored by 350.org/Diana Garia; Otober-Deember 2015: UNC XC Team Training sponsored by UNC Athletis; Otober-Deember 2015: Weekly Runs sponsored by Trailheads; Otober-Deember 2015: Youth MTB Rides sponsored by Team Hammer/KOBRA; Otober-Deember 2015: Meetup Rides sponsored by TORC. Gazebos and other open air shelters, parks, hildren s play areas, passive rereation features, and park site furnishings: No ativity to report for this period. Unpaved trail onstrution/maintenane (inluding volunteer work on paths, harvesting, et.: April 2016: Unpaved trail maintenane by staff/volunteers; June 2016: Trail maintenane work day by volunteers; April-June 2016: Trail/stream rossing improvement by staff and volunteers; Marh 2016: Road maintenane regrading and resurfaing by ontrated servies; January-Marh 2016: Trail/stream rossing improvements by staff and volunteers; July-September 2015: Trail/stream rossing improvements by staff and volunteers; Otober-Deember 2015: Reroute and losure of Nature Observation Trail by staff and volunteers Memorial gardens: No ativity to report for this period. Page 5 of 17

7 Kiosks and benhes: No ativity to report for this period. Inidental parking areas: No ativity to report for this period. Site furnishings (reyle ontainers, fixtures, blue lights): No ativity to report for this period. Support failities for speial events (Tar Heel Town, onerts, et.): No ativity to report for this period. Demolitions: No ativity to report for this period. Landsaping ativities: Between November 2015-Marh 2016, staff and volunteers foused on mehanial removal of invasive Elaeagnus speies in the Bolin Creek West Conservation Area; see CN Forest Ativities Map for loations. Community gardens: No ativity to report for this period. Misellaneous Ativities: Otober 2015: Crow Branh hydrologi monitoring by UNC students; November 2015: Native plant speies olletion by UNC staff and graduate students. D. Land Use and Ativities in Chilled water, steam, eletri dutbank, water and teleom lines: No ativity for hilled water, steam, eletri dutbank, water or teleom lines. Relaimed water line (with OWASA): No ativity to report for this period. Maintenane and improvements to existing utility lines: No ativity to report for this period. Stormwater lines and improvements: No ativity to report for this period. Page 6 of 17

8 Stormwater strutures: No ativity to report for this period. Publi utility lines traversing site: No ativity to report for this period. Utility strutures without a building (e.g., eletrial substation): No ativity to report for this period. Alterations to utility equipment (generator, other mehanials): No ativity to report for this period. Site storage and onstrution staging areas: No ativity to report for this period. Stream restoration projets: No ativity to report for this period. Greenways and other paved trails: No ativity to report for this period. Publi art: No ativity to report for this period. Site learing for any other purpose: No ativity to report for this period. Misellaneous: In November 2015, the University renovated the Field Operations Building loated in the former Town failities area for an interim use by the UNC Housekeeping Department. This work inluded the replaement of an existing modular unit adjaent to the Field Operations Building with a leased modular unit in April In addition, the University replaed a seond existing modular unit within the former Town failities area with a leased modular unit in Deember This leased unit is providing an interim loation for the dayare portion of the UNC Medial Shool affiliated UNC Horizons Program. E. Greenways Page 7 of 17

9 Report on examination and reommendations for a greenways partnership model omparable to publi transit partnership: No ativity to report for this period. Report on potential loations and funding alternatives for ampus-to-ampus greenway and bike onnetion: No ativity to report for this period. Current status and funding of greenway onnetions at Carolina North (after greenways plan submitted with initial individual site development permit): No ativity to report for this period. Greenway improvements and doument ompliane with : No ativity to report during this period. Report on onsideration of pedestrian onnetions to adjaent neighborhoods: No ativity to report during this period. F. Waste Management The University urrently provides trash and reyling servies for all Universityowned buildings, inluding buildings at Carolina North, and a number of leased properties. The reyling program overs a variety of materials and is ontinually evaluated for improvement and expansion. A representative from the University Offie of Waste Redution and Reyling is involved in projet reviews and helps identify waste redution, reuse, and reyling opportunities. Speifiations detailing University and regulatory requirements regarding onstrution waste management and reporting are to be inluded in eah projet manual. Projet teams eduate ontrators about University, loal, state and projet-speifi requirements; review and suggest hanges to ontrators Solid Waste Page 8 of 17

10 Management Plans; and ollet waste reports from partiipating projets. Future onstrution projets and finished buildings will be managed and supported similarly. No fisal impats on the Town have been noted and waste management strategies have not been amended. G. Rereation Areas Study of feasibility and ost-sharing options for future joint-use rereation areas at Carolina North: No ativity to report for this period. Desription of improvements for rereation areas and doument ompliane with : No new rereational failities or rereational areas were developed on the Carolina North property during the fisal year. The use of the Carolina North property for rereational purposes ontinues to thrive as residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and surrounding ommunities, make frequent and extensive use of the University s network of trails on the Carolina North property. Over 25 miles of trails are woven through the Carolina North Forest. The University, through its Forest Management Offie Staff, failitates ooperative use of the network of trails in the Carolina North Forest for the benefit of loal shools, ommunity organizations, and individual residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the broader ommunity. H. Stream Buffers No ativity to report for this period. Page 9 of 17

11 I. Tree Canopy The University is ommitted to proative management of the Carolina North Forest and strives to maintain or inrease the overall tree anopy of the trat. In the last year, anopy maintenane ativities again foused on the removal of exoti, non-native, invasive or otherwise undesirable speies to promote natural growth of the native anopy. As onstrution projets are planned, staff will assess the potential impats on tree anopy with the objetive of offsetting any loss in anopy. II Development Shedule The renovated Field Operations Building and replaed modular units for UNC Housekeeping and UNC Horizons Child Development Center, respetively, are expeted to remain at Carolina North through alendar year The University will ontinue to use the Field Operations Building to address appropriate ampus spae needs after UNC Housekeeping moves to their permanent loation. Furthermore, the University will reexamine whether these needs require the ontinued use of the modular building urrently used by UNC Housekeeping on an annual basis. The University is working with Orange County, Town of Chapel Hill and NCDOT on an Orange County initiated projet to extend the sidewalk along Homestead Road between the Southern Orange County Government Human Servies Center and the University of North Carolina Property. As part of the Town of Chapel Hill sidewalk plan, the new onrete sidewalk will extend approximately 500 to onnet the existing rosswalk at Weaver Dairy Extension to the existing sidewalk loated east of the Projet Homestart Page 10 of 17

12 driveway at 2505 Homestead Rd. The University is funding the portion of sidewalk that rosses University property. Constrution is antiipated to start in September 2016 with an expeted ompletion of November A. Publi Information Meetings held 9/17/ TOCH Annual Report Publi Information Meeting. 10/14/ UNC Semi-Annual Capital report to Town Counil and Manager s ompliane report to Town Counil on Annual Report. Page 11 of 17

13 III Reportable Items Cheklist DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) 4.14 Report demonstrating good faith ompliane with terms of DA 4.14 (& a.) 4.14 (& a.) 4.14 (& a.) 4.14 (& a.) 4.14 (& a.) 4.14 (& a.) (& b.) (& b.) (& b.) e e e.3 Constrution Ativity Constrution Ativity Constrution Ativity Constrution Ativity Constrution Ativity Constrution Ativity Report demonstrating good faith ompliane with terms of DA List of individual site development permits issued Building floor area onstruted Infrastruture installed Status of University partiipation in provision of or finaning of publi infrastruture Infrastruture dediated/aquired Projeted shedule for CN development for following year Cover Letter Housing Units onstruted None See page 1 of 17. Housing Estimated number of None residents living in CN See page 1 of 17. housing Housing Estimated number of FTE employees working on site at CN Chilled water, steam, eletri dutbank, water and teleom lines Relaimed water line (with OWASA) Maintenane and improvements to existing utility lines See page 1 of 17. See page 2 of 17. See page 2 of 17. Page 12 of 17

14 DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) e.4 Stormwater lines and improvements e.5 Stormwater strutures e.6 Publi utility lines e e e e e e f f.3 traversing site Utility strutures without a building (e.g., eletrial substation) Alterations to utility equipment (generator, or other mehanials) Site storage and onstrution staging areas Stream restoration projets Greenways and other paved trails Publi art Site learing for any other purpose Alterations (but not expansion) in existing parking lots, inluding repaving, repaving, replanting for stormwater mitigation, or hanging impervious to pervious pavement Roads, internal servie without exterior onnetions and not designed for vehiular irulation to serve buildings within CN developed area Page 13 of 17

15 DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) f.4 Exterior tennis and f f f f f f f f f f f.15 (traking e.1) basketball ourts Athleti failities and events that are not buildings and that do not involve land learing or grading of more than 20,000 square feet. Gazebos and other open air shelters, parks, hildren s play areas, passive rereation features, and park site furnishings Unpaved trail onstrution/maintenane (inluding volunteer work on paths, harvesting Memorial gardens Kiosks and benhes Inidental parking areas Site furnishings (reyle ontainers, fixtures, blue lights) Support failities for speial events (Tar Heel Town, onerts, et.) Demolitions See page 5 of 17. See page 5 of 17. See page 5 of 17. Landsaping ativities Community gardens Chilled water, steam, eletri dutbank, water and teleom lines Page 14 of 17

16 DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) (traking e.2) (traking e.3) (traking e.4) (traking e.5) (traking e.6) (traking e.7) (traking e.8) (traking e.9) (traking e.10) (traking e.11) (traking e.12) (traking e.13) (& ) Stormwater Cost- Sharing Relaimed water line (with OWASA) Maintenane and improvements to existing utility lines Stormwater lines and improvements Stormwater strutures Publi utility lines traversing site (Duke Energy, PSNC, et.) Utility strutures without a building (e.g., eletrial substation) Alterations to utility equipment (generator, other mehanials) Site storage and onstrution staging areas Stream restoration projetions Greenways and other paved trails Publi art Site learing for any other purpose Cost-sharing agreements (to be updated every three years) See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. See page 7 of 17. The existing agreement has been updated to over the time frame. Page 15 of 17

17 DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) a (& d.) b (& d.) (& e.) 5.10 (& h.) (& i.) 5.12 (& j.) (& k.) (& o.) (& o.) b (& l.) Parking, Traffi and Transit Parking, Traffi and Transit Short Range Fisal Plan Carbon and Other Greenhouse Emissions Water Use/Water Relamation Design Guidelines Publi Art Rereation Areas Rereation Areas Greenways Current status of transit planning for CN Projet and oordination within SRTP proess Coordination with Transportation Management Plan Ations taken to address reommendations in most reent SRFP Greenhouse gas emissions and offsets updated biennially Progress toward redutions of 20 perent indoor and 50 perent outdoor Informational opy of any updates to Design Guidelines Update on plans, ativities, implementation Study of feasibility and ost-sharing options for future joint-use rereation areas at CN Desription of improvements for rereation areas and doument ompliane with Report on examination and reommendations for a greenways partnership model omparable to publi transit partnership See page 1 of 17. See page 2 of 17. No ativity to report. See page 2 of 17. No report required until two years after initial site development permit. No report is required, sine no site development permit appliations have been submitted. No updates have been made to Design Guidelines. There are no ativities to report. No report required. No new rereational failities or rereational areas were developed on the CN property. No ativity. Page 16 of 17

18 DA Setion Topi Subtopi 2016 AR Setion (or reason for no report) (& l.) (& l.) (& l.) (& l.) 5.18 (& m.) (& p.) (& n.) Greenways Greenways Greenways Greenways Waste Management Airport Closing Assessment Stream Buffers Report on potential loations and funding alternatives for ampusto-ampus greenway and bike onnetion Current status and funding of greenway onnetions at CN (after greenways plan submitted with initial individual site development permit) Greenway improvements and doument ompliane with Report on onsideration of pedestrian onnetions to adjaent neighborhoods Desription of strategies/impats Environmental impats (after essation of airport ativities) Desription of improvements and doument ompliane with Tree Canopy Demonstration of best efforts to maintain or inrease tree anopy No ativity. UNC has not submitted a site development permit. No ativity. No ativity. See page 8 of 17. Horae Williams Airport is still open, so no report is due. No ativity. See page 10 of 17. Page 17 of 17

19 A AR RB BA DIX IE HIGH SCHOOL ELL EN LINK EST EAD THI A INDIA N TRA IL STON E KE BROO K NA H SA VA N ES AP EA CYN CELTIC GL O TAYLOR CRITZ HOM FOREST ASHLEY WINDSOR D OL LINNAEUS M EN D OW LL SEAWELL SCHOOL M WYNDHA WOODSHIRE R LTE HE RE S AL O EL AIN UNT S RK IM AN AM TR HO Y MO PINE O W R BE TIM IPAL IC BL PU IC MUN R KING J K EE EL R LUTHE MARTIN COLFAX T ES ND ME R FO CR HUNTINGTON UC ES TE R CAM DE N CH AUTUMN ROCKGARDEN ESTES Airport Runway H T AIRPOR OL MARIG ES T IR DS D O WO ON OO AY HW T PA WYRICK HA NO VE R JUSTICE EM ER YW RD HA NF O SUD BUR Y CREEKVIEW MAPLE C BAR Carolina North Forest Ativities, Stream Crossing Trail Maintenane Area Closed Single Trak Trail Trail Maintenane Spot Fix New Single Trak Trail Road Maintenane Area LAY MT BO L MS YEARGEN WA VE RL YF OR D LIA WIL CO BB LE ST ON E WATERSID E BR AN C WOODLEAF GARDEN GATE EN NORTH HAV ITIES FACIL US 1 inh = 583 feet Invasive Plant Control Area Date: 7/7/2016 Author: BGK