Welcome to the Inter-City Visit Reunion!

Welcome

Mariana Fiorentino

Terra Nova Global Properties

Chair, Partnership for a Sustainable Community

It’s been about three months…

On September 9-11, seventy-five of us traveled to Bloomington, IN for the 2012 Inter-City Visit!

CHAPEL HILL & BLOOMINGTON

Chapel Hill/Carrboro:27.4 square miles

Bloomington:23.4 square miles

Chapel Hill/Carrboro:77,901 residents in 2011

Bloomington: 81,381 residents in 2011

The Zellers

Tyler Zeller Cody Zeller

Resources from #ICV2012

You have access to the Dropbox folder…

bit.ly/ICV2012

…Including links to press from the trip

bit.ly/115gjuR

Review an archive of tweets through Storify

Storify.com/CarolinaChamber

Review presentations on SlideShare

slideshare.net/CarolinaChamber

View pictures on Flickr

flickr.com/CarolinaChamber

Inter-City Visit Survey

• Nearly half of ICV participants responded

• Asked what goals/takeaways could be completed in six weeks/six months/six years

• About 100 goals/takeaways identified with some overlap

Branding

• “Better, more coherent branding for the Town and county”

• “Developing a task force for exploring the creation of an arts and entertainment district based on the amount of available assets.”

• “Create a district similar to BEAD.”

Development• “Conduct density/tax impact analysis”/“Raise support/funds

for an analysis of how higher density development could lead to higher quality amenities, retail opportunities, and public projects”

• “Serious dialogue on form based codes and zoning

• “A completely revised SUP process”

• “120 day approval time for projects”

• “Fix our development review process. Actually do some city planning and not just react to development pressure. Decide what we want and go after it.”

Downtown• Downtown convention center

• “Downtown plan that we have on the books, with modifications based on what we learned about their downtown”

• “Bring more students downtown to live and play”

• “Expanding out narrow geography for downtown”

Economic Development • “Evaluate the TIF process and how we could

build the infrastructure to strengthen the Town”

• “Supporting the arts as an economic engine”

• “Unbundle the conversation of real estate and economic development”

• Countywide, collaborative effort on economic development

Education• “Start developing a conversation for

workforce skills being a bigger part of K-12 education”

• “Looking at courses offered now to HS students and suggesting which ones to add and cut”

• “High schools interaction with UNC and Durham Tech,” including transportation

Student Housing • “Bloomington’s rental licensing and

inspections/code enforcement are amazing…”

• Establish a property registry

• “Serious dialogue around student-centered development”

• “Plan of attack for student housing”

Tourism

• “Collaborations between area parks & rec, Visitors Center and NCHSSA to create more sports-related tourism oppys”

• Visitor tours of Chapel Hill

• “Maybe we could approve bed & breakfasts?”

Collaboration• “The level of collaboration between city, University,

businesses, and citizens seemed considerable. We should strive for similar levels of collaboration.”

• “We in Orange County need to think of ourselves as a cohesive community rather than a community made of disparate parts with widely differing interests.”

• “We will do so much better if we pull together as a community and listen better to each other.”

Discussion

Meg McGurk

Executive Director

Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership

Small Groups

• Branding

• Development

• Downtown

• Economic Development

• Education

• Student Housing

Questions

• Are these still our goals?

• What are the 1-3 next steps toward these goals?

• What individuals/organizations need to be involved to accomplish the goal?

Thank you for attending the reunion!

GO HEELS!