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Robert Campbell

Campbell moved to the Rogers Road neighborhood of Chapel Hill in the early 1970s, as the county landfill was being built beside it, and he and his wife helped start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church. He is president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.

Source: RENA Community Center: Staff

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  1. Chapel Hill High School graduates its first desegregated class The class of 1967 was the first to finish at the merged Chapel Hill High School. The school board then debated the fate of the empty Lincoln building through 1969 and 1970, and voted to keep it for school use after sustained objection from Black residents to selling it. People: Robert Campbell, Stella NickersonCarolina Digital Repository: From Forgotten to Remembered, The Long Process of School Desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Prince Edward County, Virginia
  2. Robert Campbell moves to Rogers Road as the county landfill is built beside it Campbell, who grew up in the Northside community of Chapel Hill, moved to Rogers Road in the early 1970s, as the Orange County landfill was going in next to the neighborhood. He later became president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.Search the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  3. Robert Campbell helps start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church Campbell and his wife helped start Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church, where he was ordained in the 1980s. He has said his bishop's charge to the congregation to go beyond its own comfort turned him toward the landfill and the neighborhood's water.Search the index · Marian Cheek Jackson Center, From the Rock Wall: Min. Robert Campbell
  4. Robert Campbell petitioned Chapel Hill for bus service to the Rogers Road neighborhood Minister Robert Campbell asked the Chapel Hill council to extend free transit service to the Rogers Road community, noting that it lacked sidewalks and sewer service and that children walked along the landfill's heavy truck route. He suggested rerouting underused Airport Road buses. People: Robert CampbellTown of Chapel Hill: Agenda 3a(2), Petition re Transit Service to Rogers Rd. Community
  5. Rogers–Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism organizes Residents of the Rogers Road and Eubanks Road neighborhood formed the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism in 2007. At the September 20, 2007 Assembly of Governments meeting, member Neloa Jones asked officials to drop the neighborhood as a transfer station site, end solid-waste operations there by November 2009, and provide water and sewer service. People: Robert CampbellThe Carrboro Citizen: County delays waste transfer station plan (September 27, 2007)
  6. Orange County commissioners vote to put a waste transfer station at the Eubanks Road landfill The board voted unanimously to develop a solid waste transfer station at the landfill site, following its Solid Waste Advisory Board's recommendation, over objections from Rogers Road residents. The landfill was then expected to fill in 2010. People: Mike Nelson, Robert Campbell, Valerie FousheeThe Carrboro Citizen: Commissioners approve transfer station for solid waste at Eubanks Road site
  7. Commissioners reopen the search for a transfer station site After Rogers Road residents and the Coalition to End Environmental Racism pressed the county, the Board of Commissioners announced it would reopen its search for a transfer station site. Eubanks Road stayed on the list while consultant Olver Inc. drew up siting criteria. People: Robert CampbellThe Carrboro Citizen: The grassroots of environmental justice
  8. Chapel Hill council received the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force's final report Council members Mark Kleinschmidt and Bill Strom presented the report, and the council voted 9 to 0 to send it to advisory boards, Carrboro, Orange County, OWASA and the city schools, with a joint public hearing planned for October 2009. Rev. Robert Campbell of RENA thanked the council for giving the community a voice. People: Robert Campbell, Mark KleinschmidtTown of Chapel Hill: Council minutes, March 16, 2009
  9. Orange County commissioners raised the landfill tipping fee to pay for Rogers Road remediation Commissioners raised the tipping fee from $52 to $57 a ton to create a remediation fund of about $50,000 to $60,000 a year for water and sewer connections, cleanup of illegal dumping and a community center in Rogers Road. The county also moved $750,000 out of its solid waste reserve for the same purpose. Chapel Hill and Carrboro objected to the timing of the fee. People: Robert Campbell, Mark KleinschmidtThe Daily Tar Heel: Chapel Hill and Carrboro oppose trash fee
  10. Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board The Community Unity Board brought together leaders from every sub-neighborhood of Rogers-Eubanks, among them Historic Rogers Road, Billabong, TallyHo, Meadow Run, Phoenix Place and Sandberg, for continuing talks about the area's future. RENA and the Jackson Center reconvened it in 2015 for the planning work the three governments had asked for. People: Robert CampbellSearch the index · Orange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future, May 2016
  11. Rogers Road landfill closes The landfill closed at noon on Saturday, June 29, 2013 after 41 years, with a ceremony at which Rogers Road residents symbolically locked the service entrance. The closure plan called for a synthetic cap covered with soil and vegetation, vented so that the county's methane recovery system, which feeds power to UNC buildings, could keep running. People: Robert CampbellThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend
  12. Chapel Hill extended its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the Historic Rogers Road area Because none of the neighborhood lay inside Chapel Hill's limits, the town could not legally spend money on its sewer, so the council held a public hearing set for October 15, 2014 on bringing its part of the area under the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Afterward the neighborhood was split between Carrboro and Chapel Hill's ETJ. People: Robert CampbellDaily Tar Heel: Council sets Rogers Road hearing for next month
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  1. RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments In July 2015 Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro asked the Marian Cheek Jackson Center and RENA to run a community-first planning process as sewer design advanced. The resulting report, built from nine Unity Board sessions and two rounds of interviews, set four priorities for the neighborhood and became the reference document for the later zoning districts and Greene Tract resolutions. People: Robert Campbell, David Caldwell Jr.Orange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future
  2. Ground was broken on the sewer extension to the historic Rogers Road area Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, OWASA and RENA held a groundbreaking at the RENA Community Center on Edgar Street after the sanitary sewer design was finished and a contractor hired. Construction was to begin in July 2017 and run 10 to 12 months. People: Robert CampbellTown of Carrboro: Sewer Construction in the Historic Rogers Road Area Will Begin This Summer

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Rogers Road

Pearce, Emily Eidenier · 2009

Emily Eidenier Pearce's history of Rogers Road, the historically African American neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and of what happened to it after Orange County opened its landfill next door in 1972. Drawing on interviews with residents, the book records the neighborhood's origins, family life, churches and customs, and then the environmental and social burdens of decades beside the landfill. Privately issued in 2009, 298 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

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