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Rogers Road environmental justice

A historic Black community, the county landfill beside it, and the long campaign for sewer service and the Greene Tract.

In briefIn 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.

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Rogers Road (Orange County, N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · 975.656 EID NC Cardinal UNC Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Report on socioeconomic and demographic data for the Orange regional landfill and the four alternative landfill sites that are being considered for a new landfill

Town of Chapel Hill Planning Dept · 1996

A June 19, 1996, report by the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department presenting 1990 census data on the areas around the Orange regional landfill and four alternative sites under consideration for a new landfill, prepared under North Carolina General Statutes 160A-325 and 153A-136(c), which call for such review before a landfill is sited.

Why this is here: Its title names this subject.

UNC

Regeneration of a wasteland : design alternatives for the reuse of the Orange County, NC landfill

Buck, Kathleen King · 2001

Kathleen King Buck's master of landscape architecture project at North Carolina State University, proposing design alternatives for reusing the Orange County landfill site. Completed in 2001 in 63 leaves with illustrations, plans and maps, several of them in color. Topics include earthwork fills in the county along with the design, construction and environmental aspects of waste disposal sites.

Why this is here: Its title names this subject.

NC State

Out of sight, out of mind : a contingent valuation analysis of the siting of sanitary landfills

Woo, Lillian G. · 1996

Lillian G. Woo applied contingent valuation, the method economists use to price goods that are not traded, to the siting of sanitary landfills, with Orange County among the North Carolina cases. Environmental policy, public goods valuation and landfill location are the subjects. A 26 page landfill survey sits in a pocket at the end, and the bibliography runs from leaf 249 to 259. Dated 1996.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Report of preliminary engineering evaluations : Orange regional landfill site search

1995 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Joyce Engineering of Greensboro prepared this February 1995 report on preliminary engineering evaluations for the Orange regional landfill site search, examining candidate sites for a new landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a loose leaf binder. Topics include sanitary landfills, sanitary engineering and engineering geology in Orange County.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Economic cost analysis in MSW landfill siting : the Orange County case study

Henrikson, Brett · 1994

Brett Henrikson's 1994 honors paper at Duke University works through the economics of siting a municipal solid waste landfill, using Orange County as its case study. Topics include the location and the costs of sanitary landfills, both in the county and in the United States generally. A typescript of 41 numbered leaves followed by 74 more that are unnumbered.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Costs -- Case studies.

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Supplemental information packet : Orange County landfill site search

1994 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

A supplemental packet of information for the Orange County landfill site search, dated 26 September 1994 and prepared by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, four further pages of maps inserted. It belongs to the run of consultant reports produced while the county looked for a regional landfill site.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Mass political participation in the local context : a case study

Peek, Leigh A. · 1992

Leigh A. Peek's case study of the Coalition to Remove Site OC-5, the group that organized against a proposed municipal solid waste landfill in Orange County. The paper uses the fight as an example of mass political participation at the local level, concerning land use, political participation and sanitary landfills in the county. Dated 1992, bibliography on leaves 29 to 30.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Report of additional services to the landfill site search : Orange regional landfill

1991 · Joyce Engineering, Inc.

Dated 11 November 1991, a report of additional services carried out by Joyce Engineering of Greensboro in the search for a site for the Orange regional landfill. One volume of various pagings with illustrations and maps, issued in a spiral binding. Topics include the location of sanitary landfills and engineering geology in Orange County.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Survey of solid waste management activities, Region J, North Carolina

Triangle J Council of Governments; North Carolina. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development · 1980 · Triangle J Council of Governments

Triangle J Council of Governments surveyed solid waste activities across Region J in 1980, taking in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange and Wake counties. Refuse collection, disposal practice and sanitary landfills are treated county by county. Preparation was financed in part by a state planning assistance grant.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

UNC

Michael R. Nelson papers, circa 1890-2012

Nelson, Michael R., 1963- · 1890

Roughly 2,000 items in 6.5 linear feet kept as the papers of Michael R. Nelson, born 1963, dated from about 1890 to 2012, collection 70140 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include politics and government in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County, campaign paraphernalia, and gay activists and politicians in North Carolina, naming Joseph A. Herzenberg, 1941 to 2007.

Why this is here: The record names this subject alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

UNC

Orange County Landfill (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Orange County's landfill, followed through newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, promotional materials, reports and maps. Undated folder in box 32 of the Carrboro and Orange County series, Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

Why this is here: Its title names this subject.

CH Historical Society

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Historic 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. Orange County landfill campaign1972 to 2013 · 32 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.INDY 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.From 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.Search the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  5. Rogers Road landfill opens Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County opened a shared, unlined county landfill on Eubanks Road, built in late 1972 beside the historically Black Rogers-Eubanks community, whose residents were told it would close after about ten years. It was expanded repeatedly and ran for 41 years, closing in June 2013. People: Howard N. LeeThe Daily Tar Heel: Orange County landfill to close this weekend (June 26, 2013)
  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.RENA 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 a lawsuit in late September 1972. The suit was denied in early October.RENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  8. 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. LeeRENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County bought the Greene Tract as a possible landfill site The three governments purchased the roughly 164-acre Greene Tract, just north of Rogers Road inside Chapel Hill's extraterritorial jurisdiction, for a future 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
  12. Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County begin a countywide search for a new landfill site The three governing boards started a countywide search for the next sanitary landfill, carried out with a citizens' Landfill Search Committee and an engineering consultant. The Greene Tract, bought in 1984 for landfill use, was screened but not made a finalist.Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, February 12, 1996
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  1. 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
  2. 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.Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, April 22, 1996
  3. 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.Town of Chapel Hill: Summary of a Unified Public Hearing on Landfill Matters, June 19, 1996
  4. 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 ChiltonOrangePolitics: Commissioners discuss waste transfer station tonight
  5. 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
  6. Chapel Hill approves digging on the Neville Tract to build new landfill cells The council voted 9 to 0 for a special use permit letting the Orange Regional Landfill take earth from the Neville Tract to build containment cells and for daily cover, with access across landfill property to Eubanks Road. Work was to begin by 1999 and end by 2007.Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, July 7, 1997
  7. Duke University easement to NASA stalls landfill candidate site OC-17 Chapel Hill's manager reported that Duke University had filed an easement in favor of NASA on candidate site OC-17, leaving the towns unable to test the land. The council voted 8 to 0 to have the town attorney write to the U.S. Attorney and called an Assembly of Governments for October 22, 1997. People: Cal HortonTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, October 13, 1997
  8. Chapel Hill sets conditions for new solid waste sites before handing control to the county The council unanimously directed its Landfill Owners Group members to secure a construction and demolition waste site by fall 1998, naming land on the north side of Eubanks Road next to the landfill, with eminent domain if needed, and the Greene Tract as options. It said pending solid waste issues had to be settled before any change in governance.Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, July 2, 1998
  9. 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
  10. The solid waste interlocal agreement set 60 acres of the Greene Tract aside as Headwaters Preserve The 1999 Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement set the terms for disposing of the 104 acres that stayed in joint ownership and allowed 60 acres to be deeded to Orange County, which became the Headwaters Preserve. In 2002 the three governments adopted a resolution identifying acreage on the joint portion for preservation and affordable housing.Orange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022
  11. Chapel Hill lets Orange County commissioners pick the next construction and demolition landfill site With the existing construction and demolition landfill expected to fill by summer 2000, the council voted 9 to 0 to let the Board of Commissioners select an in-county replacement site on its behalf, citing time pressure and the expected transfer of solid waste authority to the county.Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, September 13, 1999
  12. 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)
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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.Town of Chapel Hill: Agenda item 10, Rogers Road Small Area Plan Report
  16. 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 ChiltonINDY Week: Carrboro residents, still smarting from annexation, protest new development
  17. 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
  18. 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)
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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.Search the index · RENA Community Center: Staff
  23. 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?
  24. 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
  25. 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.UNC University Library: We're All Family Here, Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill
  26. Commissioners vote to truck county trash to Durham's transfer station After OWASA refused to sell or swap land for a transfer station and Chapel Hill withdrew its Millhouse Road property, the Board of Commissioners voted to haul county trash to Durham's transfer station for three to five years while the towns and county weighed a longer-term plan.The Carrboro Citizen: Timeline: 2009
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. The three governments adopted an interlocal agreement on the future of the Greene Tract The agreement required Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro to act jointly in hiring consultants, entering development agreements and taking public input, put the mayors, chair and managers in a working group to negotiate the ultimate uses, and stated an initial intent covering mixed use and affordable housing, a school site with recreation, a joint preserve and connectivity. A November 2021 resolution then approved the recombination plat and the conceptual plan for the 60-acre county tract and the 107-acre joint tract.Orange County: Greene Tract Frequently Asked Questions, May 2022

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