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North Carolina Division of Community Services, Beautification Survey and Program, Carrboro, North Carolina (1971).Open the sourceAll sources
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Carrboro adopts a three-to-five-year beautification program
The town adopted the survey's program as its plan for improving Carrboro's appearance over three to five years. It set seven focal points, among them the East Main and Rosemary junction, the depot area, the open mill yard on Weaver Street and the Town Hall grounds, and laid out 41 numbered neighborhood clean-up projects with a month-by-month calendar.
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Carrboro's planning and zoning district reaches University Lake on Jones Ferry Road
By 1971 Carrboro's planning and zoning district ran west along Jones Ferry Road to its outer edge where the road crosses an arm of University Lake, the area's water reservoir.
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North Greensboro Street and Hillsborough Road in Carrboro still lack curbs and sidewalks
The 1971 survey found North Greensboro Street not yet widened and without curbs or gutters, and the residential stretch of Hillsborough Road southeast of Greensboro Street without paved sidewalks or curbing. N.C. 54 and its bypass met town streets at traffic islands the survey hoped to plant.
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Robert Wells Jr. is mayor of Carrboro and Bill B. Britt its town manager
The 1971 beautification handbook names Robert Wells Jr. as mayor of Carrboro and Bill B. Britt as town manager when it was prepared for the town.
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The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
Carrboro had an Appearance Commission by 1971, with Mrs. Howard Thomas as chairman and seven other members, and it served as the local agency for the state beautification survey. The handbook was written for the commission to run the town's beautification work.
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The survey names Carrboro's apartment complexes and newer subdivisions
Carrboro's multi-family housing in 1971 included Sue Ann Court's duplexes and the Van-Mar Apartments at 711 North Greensboro Street, four apartment buildings on Cheek Avenue off Hillsborough Road, and complexes on South Elm Street and at the west end of West Carr Street. The survey also named the Windwood subdivision on Oleander Street and a subdivision off Davie Road near Jones Ferry Road.
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The survey records downtown Carrboro businesses at Main and Greensboro streets and on Poplar Avenue
At the Main and Greensboro Street crossing the survey found a Hardee's and Horton business, a Ford tractor dealer and a dry cleaner, with the Trading Post building complex near the depot. On Poplar Avenue stood an A&P store, Fitch Lumber Company's supply yard and fence, and an Amoco station at N.C. 54 that rented U-Haul trailers.
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The survey records the businesses along West Main Street in Carrboro
Between the Jones Ferry Road and Weaver Street intersections, West Main Street in 1971 held a Phillips 66 station, the Robbins Lab block building, the La Pizza building, College View Mobile Home Sales, a tire dealer and a Sav-a-Ton store. The survey asked for landscaping, awnings and fewer signs along the strip.
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State planners prepare a beautification survey and program for Carrboro
The Division of Community Services in the state Department of Natural and Economic Resources, with planner Ervin G. Dobson, prepared a handbook for the Town of Carrboro and its Appearance Commission that surveys the town street by street, praising its wooded approaches and marking problem spots. A federal urban planning grant under Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 paid for part of the work.
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