🚨URGENT: PITTSBORO CLIMATE ACTION ALERT 🌎
Speak up for Pittsboro Climate Action and Stop Chatham Park's South Village Big Area Plan
As Pittsboro prepares for a huge population increase of over 1,000% due to already approved developments, it faces a big challenge. As it continues to spread out, building more roads will lead to more cars, more traffic and pollution, more loss of forested areas and more climate impacts.
We have the opportunity right now to impact Pittsboro (and Chatham County’s) growth and climate policy:
1. Urge the Pittsboro Town Commissioners and Mayor to rapidly pass a climate vision and policy with serious land-use content that fights sprawl and encourages dense, walkable, bikeable development.
Attend the Pittsboro Town Board meeting on Monday May 12 at 6 pm to support a strong Climate Action Plan vision and framework. Meeting is at the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center (1192 US-64 BusinessWest, Pittsboro) - see AGENDA . Urge them to not allow Chatham Park to have one “Small Area Plan” for all of South Village. (There’s nothing small about it.) This issue will go to the Planning Board first, but it's good to start talking to the BOC about it now.
2. Speak against the proposed Chatham Park's one big “Small Area Plan” (SAP) for all of South Village's 5,000 acres, in favor of a series of smaller SAPs of 500 to 1,000 acres each.
South Village is all of Chatham Park’s land south of Town and a BIG Area Plan is the wrong way to do this. Pittsboro needs to have a much larger say in how South Village is developed that will not result in more cookie cutter sprawl. Lobby Pittsboro Planning Board members on the benefits of planning for smaller area plans that include more thoughtful consideration of environmental and economic conditions, and more feedback and engagement from the current community.
Here is contact information for the current Pittsboro Planning Board and Board of Commissioners: (text or email before calling)
Pittsboro Board of Commissioners
Mayor Kyle Shipp, kshipp@pittsboronc.gov; 810-496-3322
Commissioner Jay Farrell, jfarrell@pittsboronc.gov; 919-548-3852
Commissioner John Bonitz, jbonitz@pittsboronc.gov; 919-360-2492
Commissioner John Foley, jfoley@pittsboronc.gov; 919-612-7133
Commissioner Pamela Baldwin, pbaldwin@pittsboronc.gov; 919-360-1557
Commissioner James Vose, Jr., jvose@pittsboronc.gov; 919-259-2797
Pittsboro Planning Board
Connie McAdams, (ETJ) cmcadams@centurylink.net, 919-622-4405
Charity Mize Dautun, (ETJ) 395 Bill Thomas Rd, Moncure, charli.mize@gmail.com, 9196002893
Jamie Buster, (In Town) 85 Nooe Street, jbuster4@gmail.com, 913-908-8690 (4 years here, owned and ran the Rosemary House before that, since 2015.)
Christina Piard, (In Town, Powell Place) 48 Evandale Lane, cbortey@gmail.com, 814-880-1469 (Works at Wolfspeed in community relations, and previously worked for Congressman GK Butterfield.)
Allen Wilson, (In Town) 68 Mindees Lane (Chatham Park Vineyards) allen.wilson1234@gmail.com, 304-641-0918
Matt Hayes, (ETJ Alternate) 926 NC Hiway 87 N, matthew.hayes@unchealth.unc.edu, 504-330-5083 (lived here 12 years).
Corey Forrest, (In Town, off Park Dr) 37 Karlie Ct, forrest12.cf@gmail.com, 330-980-0356 (Corey is a surveyor, works for civil engineering firm.)
Alfreda Alston, (In Town) 1370 Hillsboro St, alfreda.alston@yahoo.com, 9195935736
