Southern Village HOA

The Parking Lot Committee established by the SVHOA will be holding an open community meeting this coming Monday, December 15th at 7:00pm in the Ascension Hall of Christ United Methodist Church. The meeting is intended to give the community more information about the proposed development on the parking lot across from Weaver Street Market and inform people about proposed zoning changes, the approval process and how they can make their voices heard.

Please click on this link to take a short survey.

This December is filled with activities around the business district of Southern Village. Please click on the below to get a full listing of all events. Also, you can visit www.southernvillage.com.

The 5th Annual Southern Village Holiday 5K & Family Fun Run will take place on Market Street on Sunday, December 14th. Please visit www.sv5k.com for more information.

As a reminder, the next SVHOA Board of Directors Meeting is on Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The meeting is at 7pm at Christ Church. This meeting, as well as all SVHOA meetings, is open to the public. Please consider coming to some or all of the meeting.

Dear Southern Village Residents,

It’s Luminary time again!

Last year, even though we weren’t able to light the luminaries because of the drought, we raised over $10,000 for the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill—the largest amount raised by any neighborhood in town for this fundraiser and a significant portion of the $70,000 total. Thank you for your overwhelming generosity!

Let’s show the Ronald McDonald House what we can do this year. Please send in your contributions with the form which you should already have received in the mail, and which is attached to this e-mail. Also, please come out on December 6 to help assemble, distribute, light and enjoy the luminaries.

We look forward to making this the most successful year yet for the Ronald McDonald House!

Southern Village Luminaries Team

From D.R. Bryan and John Fugo

Updated conceptual drawings will be presented at the Chapel Hill Town Council meeting November 17, 2008 are now posted here. We will receive concept plan review from the Town Council. “The concept plan is a preliminary step toward the preparation of a formal development plan” (from the Chapel Hill Development Ordinance p. 90). This is the beginning of the review process and not the end.

These new drawings depict a four-story hotel with both structured parking and open parking. They are preliminary. We will receive comments from the town council on Monday. We expect to modify this design in response to the council’s comments. We also expect to modify the design as we receive suggestions from the Southern Village Parking
Lot Committee.

Drawings visible at http://svcenter.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your interest.

We will be electing one new director to the five-person SVHOA board at the association’s annual meeting early in 2009. Consequently, the Nominating Committee is seeking names of possible candidates.

If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in this important volunteer position, please email nominations@southernvillage.org to learn more about the opportunity.

Dear Southern Village residents and business owners,

For some time we have been considering building an architecturally distinctive hotel to “complete” the Village Center and provide economic support to our existing local businesses.

This letter has 3 purposes:

(1) To SHARE our thinking on this proposed project.
(2) To invite you to a presentation and discussion meeting on Thursday, November 6th at 6 pm in Ascension Hall of Christ Church.
(3) To invite you to tatake a tour of other village centers in the Triangle area on November 6th, noon – 5 pm. Please sign up with Elaine Hudspeth by calling 933-4422 or emailing hudspeth.bryan@mindspring.com by November 4th.

We are still in the idea stage, and we welcome your ideas, questions and concerns.

Thank you,
D.R. Bryan and John Fugo
For updates visit www.svcenter.blogspot.com