The TLNA Blog

Those big red and yellow zoning signs that recently appeared throughout the neighborhood were placed by the City-County Planning Department to announce the public hearing for our proposed NPO. The hearing will be part of the City-County Planning Commission's February meeting: Tuesday, February 12 5:30 p.m. City Council Chambers, City Hall (first floor) We need your support at the public hearing to show the Planning Commission that the neighborhood supports adoption of the NPO. The NPO Committee will make a ten-minute presentation. At the end, we'll ask all the property owners present who support the NPO to stand up. The more people we have, the clearer the message will be to the Planning Commission that the neighborhood wants the adoption of this NPO. To see the latest draft of the proposed NPO, click on this link: http://tlnadurham.googlepages.com/2008.01.31_TC0608_TL_NPO_Attachment_.pdf To see a map of the boundaries for the NPO, click on this link: tl_npo_proposed_map.pdf Fo

New Development for the old Kroger Shopping Center next to South Square Developers Need Your Input A proposal for a mixed-used development called University Marketplace was approved by the City Council on September 3. The developers want to have a "Fresh Market" or similar small specialty grocer as one of the anchor businesses. The problem is that Fresh Market is opening a new store on NC 54 at the intersection with the 15-501 by-pass around Chapel Hill (across from Glen Lennox), so they want to see if they can serve the Durham market from there. The University Marketplace developers think the south Durham community can support its own stores. They predict that a good specialty grocer as an anchor would attract other desirable tenants. They have prepared a short survey and are asking residents to fill it out, indicating their preferences. Besides Tuscaloosa-Lakewood, this survey is going to neighborhood associations in the surrounding area. Here's the link to the survey: