Managed Growth in Southern Pines

SOUTHERN PINES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
TO HOST GROWTH MANAGEMENT FORUM
NOVEMBER 8 at 7pm - SOUTHERN PINES CIVIC CLUB

''Quality of life doesn't happen as a byproduct of a free market.''
– Harriet Tregoning, Executive Director. Smart Growth Leadership Institute.

How will Southern Pines grow? By choice or by chance? Do we have a collective vision for its future and policies in place that reflect that vision? Is growth really inevitable? Can it be managed? Whose job is it? What is the role of the Town Council, the business community, the education community, the citizens? Can our infrastructure accommodate projected growth? How much? How do we grow while ensuring the preservation of our historical and cultural heritage and our unique character? What tools are available to local governments and citizens contending with unprecedented growth?

These and other questions will be addressed on Wednesday, November 8 from 7:00 to 8:30pm at the Southern Pines Civic Club, 105 S. Ashe Street, when the Southern Pines Neighborhood Association will host a Forum on Growth Management. The goal of the Forum is a first-step effort to foster a community dialogue about the future of Southern Pines. The Forum will give residents the opportunity to learn and ask questions about growth management issues.

Guest speakers include: Jon Parsons, Executive Director of Sustainable Sandhills; Bruce Cunningham, School Board member and Chair of the Facilities Master Plan Committee; and David Owen, Professor of Law & Government and land-use expert at UNC Chapel Hill’s Institute of Government.

The Forum was initiated in response to SPNA members’ request for growth management information, sparked by the recent submission of a controversial zoning amendment to create a new zoning classification called a Planned Unit Development District.

The Forum is free and open to the general public.