2012 inter-city visit to bloomington, in reunion
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Welcome to the Inter-City Visit Reunion!
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Welcome
Mariana Fiorentino
Terra Nova Global Properties
Chair, Partnership for a Sustainable Community
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It’s been about three months…
On September 9-11, seventy-five of us traveled to Bloomington, IN for the 2012 Inter-City Visit!
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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
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The Zellers
Tyler Zeller Cody Zeller
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Resources from #ICV2012
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You have access to the Dropbox folder…
bit.ly/ICV2012
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…Including links to press from the trip
bit.ly/115gjuR
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Review an archive of tweets through Storify
Storify.com/CarolinaChamber
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Review presentations on SlideShare
slideshare.net/CarolinaChamber
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View pictures on Flickr
flickr.com/CarolinaChamber
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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
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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
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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”
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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?”
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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.”
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Discussion
Meg McGurk
Executive Director
Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership
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Small Groups
• Branding
• Development
• Downtown
• Economic Development
• Education
• Student Housing
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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?
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Thank you for attending the reunion!
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GO HEELS!