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StorylineHistoric Rogers Road neighborhood1840–2021 · 25 events · The Rogers-Eubanks area grew from Black-owned farms and sawmills after emancipation, and in 1972 the county landfill was placed beside it. Residents organized through RENA and the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition from 2007, the landfill closed in 2013, and the neighborhood won a community center in 2014 and the sewer extension in 2019. StorylineRogers Road environmental justice1972–2019 · 92 events · In 1972 officials placed the county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers Road community, promising it would run about ten years. It was expanded instead and did not close until 2013, and residents' organizing through the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association helped win a sewer line for the neighborhood, completed in 2019. StorylineOrange County landfill campaign1972 to 2013 · 69 events · The Eubanks Road landfill opened beside the Rogers Road community in 1972; four decades of expansions, lawsuits and the neighborhood's demands ended with its closure in 2013.

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  1. The Hogan-Rogers House was built on the Hogan plantation on Purefoy Road The two-story frame house on Purefoy Road, on land now owned by St. Paul AME Church, dates to the 1840s or 1850s; the 1992 township survey recorded it as the Lloyd-Rogers House at 1612 Purefoy Road, the only house in the township on a raised basement. A fireplace in that basement led the Preservation Society's director to conclude that enslaved people on the Hogan plantation probably lived and worked there. INDY Week reported in 2012 that many Rogers-Eubanks residents descend from people held on the plantation. Also mentions: St. Paul AME ChurchINDY Week: Once a home to slaves, the Hogan-Rogers house could be demolished
  2. Black-owned family farms and sawmills made up the Rogers-Eubanks area By the late nineteenth century the area between Homestead and Eubanks roads, north of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, was a neighborhood of Black-owned family farms and sawmills set among forest. RENA and the Town of Carrboro both date settlement of the wider area to the 1700s.Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association: About Us
  3. David Caldwell's family bought a home on Rogers Road David Caldwell, later a RENA leader, said his family moved from Merritt Mill Road to Rogers Road when Black families got the chance to buy homes there. He recalled a farming neighborhood of about thirteen houses, with dirt roads and cornfields. People: David Caldwell Jr. Also named: David Caldwell · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadFrom the Rock Wall: David Caldwell on the history of environmental racism in the Rogers Road community
  4. 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. People: Robert CampbellSearch the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  5. State Board of Health approves the Eubanks Road landfill site In a letter on September 12, Sidney Usry, chief of the State Board of Health's solid waste division, approved the first phase, about 25 acres, of the 202-acre Eubanks Road site. Town Manager Robert Peck expected Chapel Hill to take title within days at $235,000 for the land; the University refused to share the cost and would pay by the load, and Peck said the filled land might one day be a city-county park. Also named: Sidney Usry, Robert Peck · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, September 13, 1972, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill aldermen voted to buy the Eubanks Road site for the county landfill Three months after the Chestnut Ridge site was abandoned, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to buy a 200-acre tract on Eubanks Road for $235,000. An unlined landfill was then built on about 80 acres of it, next to the Black Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  7. New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed suit in Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough on September 18, 1972, against Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County and the former owner of the site. After a show-cause hearing on September 27 and 28, the court denied an injunction on September 29, and the landfill stayed open.RENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1972, p. 1
  8. Orange County commissioners agree to pay 43 percent of the Eubanks Road landfill On September 19 the county commissioners agreed to pay 43 percent of the $235,000 cost of the Eubanks Road landfill land and equipment, with Chapel Hill paying another 43 percent and Carrboro 14 percent, provided the site survived the New Hope Improvement Association's suit. The University would pay by the load to dump there. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, September 21, 1972, p. 1
  9. Judge Thomas D. Cooper refuses to close the Eubanks Road landfill In Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough, Judge Thomas D. Cooper denied the New Hope Improvement Association's request for an injunction against the Eubanks Road landfill, ruling that the plaintiffs had not shown when and where pollution would occur and that the site had state health and geology approval. He let the plaintiffs hire a firm to test the site, and their lawyer, A. B. Coleman Jr., said an appeal was being considered. Also named: Thomas D. Cooper, A. B. Coleman Jr. · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1972, p. 1
  10. Rogers Road landfill opens Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County opened a shared, unlined county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers-Eubanks community, whose residents were told it would close after about ten years. Chapel Hill bought the site and put it into use in the week of September 18, 1972, while the New Hope Improvement Association was suing to stop it; in November 1972 the town, Carrboro and the county agreed to own it 43, 14 and 43 percent. It was expanded repeatedly and ran for 41 years, closing in June 2013. People: Howard N. Lee Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend (June 26, 2013) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1972, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1972, p. 1
  11. Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood RENA's chronology records that Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Mayor Robert Wells Jr. and county commission chairman H.D. Bennett signed the full landfill agreement. Residents remember Lee promising that their road would be paved and that the filled site would become a recreation center for them. People: Howard N. Lee Also named: Robert Wells Jr., H.D. BennettRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  12. Chapel Hill buys a $57,794 compactor for the Eubanks Road landfill On the town manager's advice the Board of Aldermen accepted the E.F. Craven Company of Greensboro's bid of $57,794, the second lowest, for a trash compactor at the Eubanks Road landfill, the lowest bid not meeting specifications. Orange County and Carrboro, which shared the landfill, agreed to the purchase. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 28, 1973, p. 4
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  1. Chapel Hill aldermen ask the county to rehear a rezoning beside the Eubanks Road landfill At Alderman Gerry Cohen's request the board asked the county commissioners to reschedule their hearing on rezoning 20 acres next to the 200-acre Eubanks Road landfill, owned by Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county, from agricultural to industrial use for a trucking company, because neither town had been notified. Cohen said residents of the area had been told the land might become a park. Also named: Gerry CohenThe Daily Tar Heel, September 5, 1974, p. 1
  2. Chapel Hill aldermen admit a sewage sludge trench broke the landfill agreement Answering an Airport Road resident's petition, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen admitted that the town had broken its landfill agreement with Carrboro and Orange County by digging a 30-by-100-foot trench of wet sewage sludge in an unopened section of the Eubanks Road landfill, on the south side of the road, without state health department approval. Mayor Howard Lee, who had visited the site, said the board learned of it that morning, and the town promised to start removing the sludge the next day. People: Howard N. Lee Also mentions: Airport Road, Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 2
  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. People: Robert CampbellSearch the index · Marian Cheek Jackson Center, From the Rock Wall: Min. Robert Campbell
  4. Radioactive waste from a UNC laboratory is thrown out with trash bound for the Eubanks Road landfill A housekeeping assistant emptied a marked container holding two millicuries of the research isotope iodine-125 into the regular trash of a University lab, and it went to the county's sanitary landfill on Eubanks Road. The N.C. Department of Human Resources cited the University for not following disposal rules; a search of the landfill found no iodine-125 but turned up iodine-131 of unknown origin, and UNC began training all housekeeping workers to spot hazardous materials. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1980, p. 1
  5. Orange County begins discussing the first expansion of the Eubanks Road landfill Ten years after the landfill opened, the county began discussing an expansion even though it had estimated the site would be full by 1985. Residents had been told the landfill would close after about ten years.INDY Week: Digging deeper
  6. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County agree to buy the Greene Tract as a possible landfill site The three governments agreed to buy the roughly 164-acre Greene Tract, just north of Rogers Road inside Chapel Hill's extraterritorial jurisdiction, for a future landfill. The county commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council approved the $608,000 purchase first, and Carrboro's aldermen gave the last approval on March 7, 1984, after neighbors' objections had led them to put off a vote late in February; the Daily Tar Heel described the land as 169 acres between Eubanks and Homestead roads next to the regional landfill. The county's landfill site search committee did not choose it, and its future use was argued over through the 1990s.Orange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1984, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1984, p. 2
  7. The Durham-Orange Regional Solid Waste Task Force hires a consultant to study garbage disposal The task force, chaired by Chapel Hill council member Nancy Preston, hired HDR Techserv Inc. of Charlotte to weigh landfilling, waste-to-energy and recycling for a two-county system, as Chapel Hill's 200-acre landfill off Eubanks Road had fewer than ten years left. The firm began work in late October; the task force set public forums for late January and planned to recommend a system to the Orange and Durham county governments in the spring. Also named: Nancy Preston · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1987, p. 3
  8. Orange County commissioners approve a process to find a new county landfill site The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved a process for choosing a new landfill site that gave Chapel Hill and Carrboro a part, with a Landfill Search Committee of 10 residents from each of the seven townships and three members from each governing board to set criteria and recommend sites. Town Manager David Taylor reported the Eubanks Road landfill, which took about 97.5 percent of the county's trash, would be full by 1997; the Greene Tract on Homestead Road, bought about eight years earlier, could no longer be used because houses had been built around it. Also named: David Taylor · Also mentions: Greene Tract, Eubanks Road, Homestead RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1989, p. 3
  9. The landfill owners group names ten citizens to search for a new Orange County landfill site The Orange Regional Landfill Owners Group of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County representatives chose 10 citizens from around the county for a Landfill Search Committee to help pick a site for a new landfill, since the Eubanks Road landfill was expected to fill by 1997, and to explain the need to the public. Officials noted that only 95,000 tons were dumped in 1989, 18 percent below forecasts, and said the $15-a-ton fee might rise to $21. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1990, p. 3
  10. Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill After the search narrowed to four sites judged permittable, the council voted 7 to 2 to recommend a reduced site OC-17, adjacent to the existing landfill, as the county's next sanitary landfill. INDY Week reports that the county commissioners and the Hillsborough board also voted for it that month, with Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson opposed. People: Mike NelsonTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, February 12, 1996
  11. Chapel Hill authorizes buying land beside the landfill to widen its buffer The council unanimously authorized the town manager to buy the 4.05-acre Wilson property adjoining the Eubanks Road landfill at $6,000 an acre to expand a minimal buffer, subject to approval by Carrboro and Orange County. Also mentions: Eubanks RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, April 22, 1996
  12. Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site The Orange County commissioners, Chapel Hill council, Carrboro aldermen and Hillsborough commissioners took comment on site 17 and three alternatives. Neighbours including David Caldwell, Kathy Schinley and Cornelius Kirschner spoke against it, B.B. Olive presented a 39-signature petition, and Frank Emory, representing Duke University, said the poorest residents lived nearest site 17. People: David Caldwell Jr. Also named: David Caldwell, Kathy Schinley, Cornelius Kirschner, B.B. Olive, Frank EmoryTown of Chapel Hill: Summary of a Unified Public Hearing on Landfill Matters, June 19, 1996
  13. Assembly of Governments agrees compensation items for neighbors of the landfill Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro met as an Assembly of Governments in 1997 to take up benefits for people living near the Orange Regional Landfill and agreed a set of compensation items. In 2007 Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton wrote that not all of them had been carried out. People: Mark Chilton Also mentions: Orange Regional LandfillOrangePolitics: Commissioners discuss waste transfer station tonight
  14. Orange County chooses to keep expanding the Eubanks Road landfill instead of opening a new site With site OC-17 blocked, the county announced it would expand the existing landfill rather than close it. A new construction and demolition landfill was later built on the north side of Eubanks Road.INDY Week: Digging deeper
  15. Chapel Hill backs countywide funding to extend water lines to the Rogers Road neighborhood By a 7 to 2 vote the council said water service lines for the community around the landfill should be paid for from a countywide revenue source so that all county residents share the cost, and opposed using the sales tax for those benefits.Town of Chapel Hill: Summary Minutes of the Town Council, October 12, 1998
  16. Orange County agrees to build a new construction and demolition landfill tied to a recycling ordinance Because the construction and demolition landfill on Eubanks Road would fill around 2003, the Board of Commissioners agreed to build a new one only if certain bulky materials had to be recycled. The Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance took effect on October 1, 2002.Orange County, NC: Construction & Demolition (Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance)
  17. 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 Campbell Also mentions: Airport RoadTown of Chapel Hill: Agenda 3a(2), Petition re Transit Service to Rogers Rd. Community
  18. Carrboro formed the New Horizons task force for the Rogers Road area Carrboro created the New Horizons task force to serve residents of the Rogers Road area it was annexing. The town's Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project, begun in 2018, grew out of the task force's work.Chapelboro: Carrboro Breaks Ground on Rogers Road Sidewalk Project
  19. Chapel Hill council took up how to carry out a Rogers Road small area plan Under a 2002 resolution adopted jointly by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Chapel Hill had agreed to plan the residential area west of the Greene Tract around Rogers and Purefoy roads, including an affordable housing site. The manager recommended starting after four neighborhood conservation districts were finished, with the Planning Board leading. Also mentions: Greene TractTown of Chapel Hill: Agenda item 10, Rogers Road Small Area Plan Report
  20. Carrboro annexed subdivisions on the west side of Rogers Road Carrboro annexed six subdivisions north of Homestead Road, including Fox Meadow and Highlands, bringing part of the Rogers Road area inside town limits. In September 2004 the aldermen had voted 6 to 1 to go ahead even though the historic neighborhood had asked the two towns to move their annexation boundary so the community would not be split. People: Mark Chilton Also mentions: HighlandsINDY Week: Carrboro residents, still smarting from annexation, protest new development
  21. Residents founded the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association About 85 households founded RENA as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, putting a long-running informal community alliance on a formal footing. RENA went on to organize the Coalition to End Environmental Racism and to run the neighborhood's community center.Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association: About Us
  22. 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 Campbell Also named: Neloa Jones · Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Carrboro Citizen: County delays waste transfer station plan (September 27, 2007)
  23. St. Paul AME Church bought land on Rogers Road for a new church campus The Chapel Hill congregation bought more than 22 acres for a worship complex with a banquet hall, wellness center, daycare, senior and affordable housing, athletic fields and a cemetery. The land, at Rogers Road and Purefoy Drive, became the site of the planned St. Paul Village.St. Paul AME Church Chapel Hill: History
  24. 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
  25. 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 Campbell Also mentions: Eubanks RoadThe Carrboro Citizen: The grassroots of environmental justice
  26. David Caldwell retires as a sheriff's lieutenant to organize in Rogers Road full time Caldwell joined the sheriff's department in 1985 after returning to the area and retired as a lieutenant in 2008 to work full time on community and social justice work. He became project director and community organizer for the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association. People: David Caldwell Jr.Search the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  27. Commissioners drop Eubanks Road and choose two other transfer station candidates Conceding that the 2007 choice had not adequately weighed its effect on Rogers Road, the commissioners voted 5 to 1 to pursue two other sites, the 143-acre Howell property and an OWASA tract in Bingham Township.INDY Week: Where should Orange County stick its garbage?
  28. 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 Kleinschmidt Also named: Bill StromTown of Chapel Hill: Council minutes, March 16, 2009
  29. UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book The exhibit We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill introduced families who had shaped the area from the 1700s on. It was inspired by Pearce's 2009 history Rogers Road, which RENA presents as part of its History Project. Also named: Emily Eidenier PearceUNC University Library: We're All Family Here, Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill
  30. RENA opened its first community center on Edgar Road Three years after incorporating as a nonprofit, the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association opened a small community center on Edgar Road so the neighborhood had a place of its own to gather and run programs.RENA Community Center: About Us
  31. 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
  32. Commissioners decide not to extend the life of the landfill The Board of Commissioners voted not to extend the landfill and approved cleanup of 50 illegal dump sites. In April 2011 it had postponed a decision on deepening the landfill, which could have added capacity to 2018.RENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  33. Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012. People: Penny Rich, Pam HemmingerTown of Chapel Hill: Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force
  34. 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: David Caldwell Jr., Robert CampbellSearch the index · Orange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future, May 2016
  35. EPA accepted RENA's civil rights complaint over water and sewer service for investigation The EPA Office of Civil Rights took up the question whether the Orange County Planning and Inspections Department had intentionally discriminated on the basis of race by denying water and sewer service to the African American residents of Rogers Road. RENA had filed the complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, which referred it to several federal agencies, and it was joined to an earlier complaint against OWASA accepted on November 23, 2009.U.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. RENA and the Jackson Center produced the Historic and Vibrant Rogers Road report The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center put together survey analysis and community feedback on the neighborhood's future. Two years later the same partners ran the planning process behind Mapping our Community's Future.Marian Cheek Jackson Center: MCJC Reports
  39. The county-funded Rogers Road Community Center opened at 101 Edgar Street Orange County commissioners awarded a $522,488 contract to Riggs-Harrod Builders of Durham on April 1, 2014 after a first round of bids came in at two to three times the authorized budget and the building was redesigned. The larger center, with a community room, kitchen, computer lab and outdoor courts, opened that December a short walk from RENA's 2010 building.RENA Community Center: About Us
  40. 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. Also mentions: Greene TractOrange County: Rogers Road, Mapping our Community's Future
  41. 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
  42. Carrboro broke ground on the Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project A $1.37 million project put a five-foot sidewalk from the west side of Rogers Road to Meadow Run Court, together with a new bus pad and shelter. Ground was broken in late June 2018 and construction began that fall. The project traced back to a New Horizons task force created in 2005.Chapelboro: Carrboro Breaks Ground on Rogers Road Sidewalk Project
  43. Chapel Hill and Carrboro created Historic Rogers Road zoning districts The Chapel Hill Town Council closed its public hearing on May 22, 2019 and enacted Land Use Management Ordinance amendments establishing new zoning districts for the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood. Carrboro added Section 15-136.1 to its Land Use Ordinance on June 18, 2019, creating the HR-R and HR-CC districts expressly to carry out the Mapping Our Community's Future plan.Town of Chapel Hill: File #19-0481, Zoning Districts for the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood
  44. The Rogers Road sewer extension was placed in service OWASA put the extension into service on June 27, 2019 after the state accepted the as-built certification, ending a wait that residents traced to the 1972 landfill agreement. About 3.5 miles of sewer had been laid, and the neighborhood held a celebration at the community center on June 3. Individual owners still had to pay to connect their homes. People: Penny RichU.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  45. EPA closed the Rogers Road civil rights complaint as moot The EPA External Civil Rights Compliance Office told the Orange County attorney that Complaint No. 13R-07-R4 was closed because interlocal agreements to which the county was a party had produced a completed water and sewer extension, and because OWASA is bound by those agreements to serve Rogers Road residents who connect. The letter found no systemic issues left to investigate and made no finding of discrimination.U.S. EPA: Resolution and Closure, EPA Complaint No. 13R-07-R4
  46. Pop-up vaccine clinic held at the Rogers Road Community Center The Orange County Health Department held a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Rogers Road Community Center for Hispanic and Asian American residents, many of whom do not speak English, after local volunteers asked for one and printed flyers in several languages.WRAL: Chapel Hill organization provides vaccine outreach for non-English-speaking community

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  1. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  8. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:31,680) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  10. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  11. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  12. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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