Some members of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen want a bigger say in the future airport authority that could site, build and operate a future airport in Orange County.
Legislation passed last summer authorizes a 15-member panel. Eight members will come from UNC and the UNC Health Care System. One will get picked by the state House leader, one by the state Senate leader, three by the Orange County Board of Commissioners, one by the Chapel Hill Town Council and one by the Board of Aldermen and the Hillsborough Town Board on a rotating basis.
Alderman Dan Coleman says that doesn't make sense. "For some unknown (to me) reason, the legislature gave the permanent municipal seat to "the largest municipality" rather than to those most proximate to the potential sites," he writes in an e-mail to Mayor mark Chilton. "This seems short-sighted given that any airport will have the greatest impact on those municipalities to which it is closest, namely, Carrboro or Hillsborough."
Coleman proposes asking Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens to join Carrboro in asking that instead of sharing a seat on a rotating basis, the towns each get a permanent seat on the board.
Alderman Randee Haven-O'Donnell agrees. "The airport authority's up-coming decision making is of critical concern to our area and citizens would deeply appreciate a permanent voice," she writes in another e-mail.
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The Long Reach of Baron Ramsbotham
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 23:35 — ChathamOwlResidents of Orange County are being treated like serfs in the fiefdom of a great Baron on whose crest appears the head of a long-horned ram . This Baron has a voracious appetite for land and privileges. He seems to have reverted to approximately 500 C.E. in his estimation of individual property rights. Worse, the great Ram seems to care naught for the beauty of the land it would ravage with its passionate rampage for covering the earth with concrete or whatever it is of which runways are paved .
Not only has the Ram ignored the cries of Orange County, but also has it relegated to irrelevance the plight of residents in kissing-cousin county Chatham. Landowners and nature worshippers in mid-North Chatham stand to be as adversely affected as anyone. Noise, traffic, soil disturbance, stream turbidity - all the usual insults of heedless development - threaten at the gate of the Earl of Pitt as well as the County of Orange.
Is this the best Great Baron Ram can do with all that edification from education?
By contrast, I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.
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Carrboro
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 22:04 — elvisboy77Decided to toss this Hwy 54 area in exchange for the heavily populated (read: large tax income base) Northern Transition Area when it came to "planning" the reaping of tax dollars from surrounding areas.
So, Carrboro, keep your nose out of where you have stated that you do not belong, thanks.
Sounds like some of the BOA need a history lesson on their own town. Surprise, surprise.
Don't chip away at citizen representation
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 16:39 — CitizenWillThe BOCC could appoint one member of the BOA as an OC representative but that would introduce two problems: one, possible mixed goals of the two elective bodies and two, limiting citizen access.
Of course, as one of a few citizens asking to be appointed by the BOCC to the Authority, I would like to have a better than 1 in 2 chance of representing the BOCC.
airport board composition
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 16:40 — lindahammockI think that the community should have atleast equal representation as UNC to begin with - The original distribution is jaded in their favor - so another seat should be added to have half UNC and half community representation and voice. They set it up as a farce so that it is predetermined that the UNC votes will always maintain control of any issue they discuss. In addition, Carrboro has just as much at stake in this discussion as Chapel Hill - if not more - since they are closer to the airport physically.
Sounds like
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 17:01 — fhblackyou know which sites will be identified and which one will be selected by this yet to be established authority.
All fifteen sites
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 17:13 — marcoplosidentified by the UNC-commissioned Talbert & Bright report are closer to Carrboro than CH.
And, of course, any of those sites would most affect the one group that has been blocked from the process - Orange County citizens.
If
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 19:15 — TBlake...the university is going to cite AHEC travel time as the reason *and* wants federal funding simple research into the available data shows there are only a couple of sites possible.
A fair & modest request
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:53 — marcoplosThe UNC bigwigs are certainly well-represented. Big business leaders are afforded meetings with UNC airport leaders. The national Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association meets & communicates regularly with high-level UNC officials.
Judging by UNC's contemptuous process, that is everyone who they believe deserves to be included.
The people of Orange County certainly appreciate any opportunities to open this process a little to involve us.