On Monday, a public information meeting brought together University officials and town residents to discuss the limited progress made in the past year on a slow-moving University development.
Carolina North, located on 1,000 acres of University-owned property along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is in the process of being developed into an academic mixed-use campus.
Officials hope to turn 133 acres of the property into a new satellite campus for academic buildings, housing and recreational space. The final completion date is set more than 50 years from today.
The development agreement for the project was approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council in June 2009, but little has been accomplished on the campus in the past three years.
The public information meeting was the fifth in the past year and a half.
Mary Jane Nirdlinger, Chapel Hill director of policy and strategic initiatives, said she thinks the regular checkins have been good for the community.
“Communication is in good shape,” she said. “We will continue to support sharing information as it arises.”
But a resident at the meeting said Carolina North developers did not stick to their word.
“You said you would let us know before trees were cut, and you said there would be no work on Saturdays, but none of that happened,” he said.
