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Featuring

articles

from:

Robert

Schneider

Spencer

M.

Cowan

Lanier

Blurn^

Sonia

Garrison, Christine

Westfall,

Alison

Weiner,

and

Erin

Crossfield

Dan

Broun

University

of

North Carolina

at

Chapel

Hill

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It is with sadness that

we

at CarolinaPlanning notethe passing ofJohn A."Jack"* Parker,

ProfessorEmeritusand formerchairofthe Departmentof City and Regional Planningatthe

Universityof NorthCarolinaatChapel Hill. Mr. Parker diedon

March

18.2001 atthe age of91.

A

nativeofKentville.

Nova

Scotia,he graduatedfromthe Massachusetts InstituteofTechnology with a

B.Sc. degree inArchitecture and masters degrees in Architecture and Planning.

In 1946. Mr. Parker accepted an invitationtodevelopagraduateprogram in planningatthe

UniversityofNorthCarolina.

He

servedas the chairoftheDepartment until his retirementin 1974.

"He was

absolutely a pioneer." said Dr.

Ed

Kaiser,professorof planningat

UNC.

"He

helped developthenotionofregional planning.

And

he

made

thisthe firstprogram inthecountryactually

basedon a social science orientation...

He

took studentsunderhiswing.

He

would

get a rosterof

studentsin thedepartmentand holdcourtwith each student,askingthem abouttheiraspirationsand

whattheyweretryingtoaccomplish."

During and after his tenure at

DCRP,

Mr. Parker

was

a tireless supporterof Carolina Planning.

andhisgenerousfinancialandmoral support

made

the publicationofthisjournal possible.

He

will be

greatlymissed.

Mr. Parkers family suggests that all memorials he

made

to the

John

A.

and

.Jane C. Parker

Endowment

Fund, Office of University

Development, University

of

North Carolina at

Chapel

Hill,

Letters to the Editor 4

Planner's Digest

The

MillionAcresInitiativeGets

Underway

Marc

deBree

Smart

Growth

inNorthCarolina

Elizabeth Federico

5

6

Articles

Changing

Institutional StructurestoImprovethe 7

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Coordination of

Land

Use

and Transportationinthe

CD ResearchTriangle.NorthCarolinaRegion

2

Q.

Robert J. Schneider

to

Statewide Inclusionary

Land

Use Laws

and

SuburbanExclusion

21

Spencer

M.

Cowan

CL

5

Local Inclusionary

Housing

Programs and the Prospects 34

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2

forNorth Carolina

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o

Lanier

Blum

The

Community Land

Trust: PreservingAffordable

HousingStockin

Orange

County,North Carolina

Sonia Garrison, Christine Westfall

and

Alison Weiner

A

DisasterReliefand Quality Improvement

Loan

and Grant

Program forChildcare Providers

Dan

Broun

39

43

Carolina Planningis a student-run publication ofthe

Department ofCity and Regional Planning.

From

the Editors:

Editors

ElizabethFederico

Kenneth

Ho

We

have been pleased with the

_Amanda

_Huron

responsestoourlast issue,which focusedon

Robin Zimbler

effortstorebuild inthe

wake

ofthedevastating

hurricanesthathittheNorthCarolinacoast in _Carolina

Planningispublished twiceayearwith

1999. This issue'sarticles covera broader _generous

financialsupport from:

varietyoftopics, but are linkedbytheunderlying

theme ofland use decisions.

Whether

•

_The

_{John A. ParkerTrust}

Fund

addressing environmental,transportationor •

_The

Department ofCityand Regional

housingconcerns, landuse policy can playakey _Planning

roleincreating solutions. •

_The

_NorthCarolinaChapteroftheAmerican

We

begin with updatesonopen space _{Planning Association}

and smartgrowthinitiativesinNorthCarolinaby

•

The

_{Department ofCityand} Regional

Marc DeBree

and Elizabeth Federico. Next.

Planning

Alumni

Association RobertJ.Schneiderwriteson improving

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coordinationoflanduseandtransportationin

Subscriptions:

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NorthCarolina's Research Triangleareathrough

Annual subscription ratesare

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new

formsofregional governance and

Individuals$12; Institutions$20;

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cooperation.

Studentsand

APA

members

$10.

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The

next three pieces examine tactics

forprovidingaffordablehousing,a topicof

Back

issues, includingpostage$8.

CO

growing concern nationwide. Spencer

Cowan

CarolinaPlanning

welcomes

comments.

introduces ustotheinclusionary land use

suggestions,and submissions. Mailto:

regulationsenacted by five states to encourage

Carolina Planning

UNC-

ChapelHill,

CB#3

140

developerstobuildaffordableunits. Lanier

Blum

discusseslocalinclusionaryhousing

Chapel Hill.

NC

27599-3140

programs andtheprospects fordevelopingsuch

Phone:(919)962-4783

policiesinNorthCarolina.

And

SoniaGarrison.

Email: carplan'ajunc.edu

Christine Westfall.Alison

Weinerand

Erin

Crossfielddescribethe

community

landtrust

The

editorswishtothank DavidGodschalk and

model,and

how

the

Orange

Community

Housing

Lila Berry.

Corporationisusingalandtrusttoprovide

sustainableaffordablehousinginand around

Cover

Image:

ChapelHill.

Placing

modular

affordable housing on its

Finally,

we

return tothethemeof

foundation in the Walltown

neighborhood

in

hurricane recovery, as

Dan

Broun describes

Durham, NC.

Part

_of

Self-Help's efforts to Self-Help'sinnovativeprogramtoassistchild

create affordable housing as part of

care providers

whose

businesses weredisrupted

community

redevelopment efforts in the

byHurricane Floyd. Forthe larger recovery

region. To read

more

about Self-Helps

programtobe successful,hepointsout. basic

innovative

programs

see

Dan

Broun

s article

services such as child care mustbe in place.

on

page

43.

With this issue,

we

have addeda Letters

tothe Editorsection. We're interested in reader _Copyright200

1.theDepartmentof Cityand

responseto the ideas presented here,and hope _{Regional Planning}

togenerateacontinuing discussionofplanning

issues ofthe Southeast.

We

look forward to

Printedby

UNC

PrintingServicesonrecycled

7

December

2000 growth plans.

Such

atiered systemalsomight

be considered for the coastal area,reducingthe

Congratulationson your

Summer

2000 requirementfor full-scalecomprehensiveplans

special issue."Planning

Our

Coast."

The

tothetwentycountiesandthe largercities, and

articles raisea

number

ofimportantand simplifyingtheplanning requirementsforsmaller

interestingquestions relatedto

why we

care towns. This

would

facilitatesubstantiveplan

about, and haveenacted lawsand programsto review and

make

iteasiertoholdlocalities

o

o

protect,ourcoastalenvironmentand those

who

responsiblefortheirshareofenvironmental

CD useit. protection.

5

RichardNortonasksiflocal land useplans

Q.

prepared undertheNorth Carolina Coastal DavidR. Godschalk

Management

Actshouldbejudged onthe basis Stephen Baxter Professor ofCityand

2

ofthe planning procedures used orthe substance RegionalPlanning

ofthe plans. Ifsubstanceisjudged,do local UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapel Hill

Q. goalsforeconomic developmenttake

2

precedence overstate and regional goals for

2

3 environmentalprotection?

My

view isthat planningproceduresare

O

important,butsubstanceiskey. Environmental

protectionshould bethefirstpriority,with

economic

developmenttotakeplacewiththe

leastpossibleenvironmentaldisruption.

Coastal waterquality isoneclearandvalid

measureoftheeffectiveness oflocal plans and

theirimplementation. Countyplans shouldbe

reviewed and approved relative to theirtrack

record inprotecting coastal waterquality. And.

asRachael Franks pointsout.

NPDES

permits,

tied toplans, can beeffectivetools forwater

quality protection,along with zoning,best

management

practices, and land acquisition. I

would

addland suitability analysesandsmart

growthstrategies to that list.

The

NorthCarolina

Commission

toAddress

Smart Growth.

Growth Management,

and

Development

Issues isscheduled to reporttothe

General

Assembly

in January2001. It

may