The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has cleared an important hurdle in its efforts to establish a satellite campus. This week, after ten months of negotiations and almost twenty years since planning began, the UNC-CH Board of Trustees and the Town Council of Chapel Hill reached agreement concerning development of Carolina North. The new site is intended to facilitate the expansion of the law school, classroom and research facilities, student and faculty housing, and other university activities.

While the development agreement is bound by state law to a twenty year window, it is expected to protect 700 acres in Chapel Hill and Carrboro from changes that could adversely affect traffic and recreation in the area far into the future. Over the next fifty years, the university plans to build about 8 million square feet on 228 acres, while protecting 300 acres from development permanently.

Read more at the Carolina North web site…