1. Welcome to the
Inter-City Visit Reunion!

2. Welcome
Mariana Fiorentino
Terra Nova Global Properties
Chair, Partnership for a Sustainable
Community

3. It’s been about three months…
On September 9-11, seventy-five of us
traveled to Bloomington, IN for the 2012
Inter-City Visit!

4. CHAPEL HILL &
BLOOMINGTON
Chapel Hill/Carrboro:
27.4 square miles
Bloomington:
23.4 square miles
Chapel Hill/Carrboro:
77,901 residents in 2011
Bloomington:
81,381 residents in 2011

5. The Zellers
Tyler Zeller Cody Zeller

6. Resources from #ICV2012

7. You have access to the Dropbox folder…
bit.ly/ICV2012

8. …Including links to press from the trip
bit.ly/115gjuR

9. Review an archive of tweets through Storify
Storify.com/CarolinaChamber

10. Review presentations on SlideShare
slideshare.net/CarolinaChamber

11. View pictures on Flickr
flickr.com/CarolinaChamber

12. Inter-City Visit Survey
• Nearly half of ICV participants
responded
• Asked what goals/takeaways could be
completed in six weeks/six months/six
years
• About 100 goals/takeaways identified
with some overlap

13. Branding
• “Better, more coherent branding for the Town
and county”
• “Developing a task force for exploring the
creation of an arts and entertainment district
based on the amount of available assets.”
• “Create a district similar to BEAD.”

14. Development
• “Conduct density/tax impact analysis”/“Raise support/funds
for an analysis of how higher density development could
lead to higher quality amenities, retail opportunities, and
public projects”
• “Serious dialogue on form based codes and zoning
• “A completely revised SUP process”
• “120 day approval time for projects”
• “Fix our development review process. Actually do some city
planning and not just react to development pressure.
Decide what we want and go after it.”

15. Downtown
• Downtown convention center
• “Downtown plan that we have on the books,
with modifications based on what we learned
about their downtown”
• “Bring more students downtown to live and
play”
• “Expanding out narrow geography for
downtown”

16. Economic Development
• “Evaluate the TIF process and how we could
build the infrastructure to strengthen the
Town”
• “Supporting the arts as an economic engine”
• “Unbundle the conversation of real estate
and economic development”
• Countywide, collaborative effort on
economic development

17. Education
• “Start developing a conversation for
workforce skills being a bigger part of K-12
education”
• “Looking at courses offered now to HS
students and suggesting which ones to add
and cut”
• “High schools interaction with UNC and
Durham Tech,” including transportation

18. Student Housing
• “Bloomington’s rental licensing and
inspections/code enforcement are
amazing…”
• Establish a property registry
• “Serious dialogue around student-centered
development”
• “Plan of attack for student housing”

19. Tourism
• “Collaborations between area parks & rec,
Visitors Center and NCHSSA to create
more sports-related tourism oppys”
• Visitor tours of Chapel Hill
• “Maybe we could approve bed &
breakfasts?”

20. Collaboration
• “The level of collaboration between city, University,
businesses, and citizens seemed considerable. We
should strive for similar levels of collaboration.”
• “We in Orange County need to think of ourselves as a
cohesive community rather than a community made of
disparate parts with widely differing interests.”
• “We will do so much better if we pull together as a
community and listen better to each other.”

21. Discussion
Meg McGurk
Executive Director
Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership

22. Small Groups
• Branding
• Development
• Downtown
• Economic Development
• Education
• Student Housing

23. Questions
• Are these still our goals?
• What are the 1-3 next steps toward
these goals?
• What individuals/organizations need to
be involved to accomplish the goal?

24. Thank you for attending the reunion!

25. GO HEELS!