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| - The new shelter would be 115 feet from the North Forest Hills neighborhood.
- The shelter's "buffer" would include two large preschools, after school programs, youth athletic fields, and a park.
- The backroom deal by a departing mayor and chancellor has eroded the trust that future Carolina North neighbors have with UNC.
- IFC claims their search was exhaustive, yet almost all the land that they considered were free sites with fundamental problems like streams, huge gullies, problematic sewer, etc. (which is why they were free).
- UNC has thousands of acres of land. Why this parcel? A public process could have looked at all suitable UNC as well as suitable town, county, and private land.
- By limiting choice to one site, IFC is trying to create urgency as a reason to ignore the backroom deal and ignore the unsuitability of the proposed site.
- Had the IFC purchased the proposed site, the cost would be less than 10% of the $5-6M total cost of the proposed shelter relocation. A free site doesn't make it an appropriate site.
- The Town of Chapel Hill is raising the stakes on this site by gambling $300,000 - $500,000 and likely many more hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future via Community Block Development Grants which are contingent on the shelter being relocated to the MLK Homestead Road location. This allows IFC to threaten that they will lose this money if the Homestead location is not chosen quickly.
- Men in the current shelter can take a bus directly to most places in Chapel Hill/Carrboro. The MLK/Homestead Road location will require a bus transfer (2 buses) to most places.
- There is no "shelter" land use management zone. There has been no "by right" permitted land use for a shelter of this large size for many decades. This land use would not be expected by nearby landowners, despite IFC's boasting that the land is zoned for a shelter.
- The Special Use Permit (SUP) process may provide a blank check for the politically powerful IFC.
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