Comprehensive Connects Comprehensive Plan Goal Updates

The Carrboro Town Council honors Black History Month, hears a youth call for voter participation, and reviews progress on affordable housing, climate action, downtown business support, and public art within the Carrboro Connects Comprehensive Plan. Council members also see a new public performance dashboard, and discuss next steps on homelessness and local encampments. 21mins

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
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Carrboro Town Council Meeting - February 3, 2026
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In This Video
  • Mayor Foushee issued a Black History Month proclamation that honored national and local Black history, highlighted Carrboro’s Black elected officials and town leaders, and recognized community spaces renamed to commemorate their contributions.
  • Aniya Campbell, CH-Carrboro NAAACP Youth Council President accepted the Black History Month proclamation, reflected on the broader meaning of Black History Month, and urged residents to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming primary elections.
  • The Town Manager thanked staff for their work during recent winter weather events, recognized emergency management and communications efforts, and announced the launch of a more accessible town website with planned ADA-focused improvements.
  • Reilly Stahl, assistant to the Town Manager, updated the Town Council on the Carrboro Connects Comprehensive Plan priority projects and to introduce a new performance measures initiative, outlining the status of 35 projects.
  • Reilly Stahl reported on affordable housing priorities, highlighting work with partner organizations to support prospective homeowners, ongoing efforts to secure additional housing funds despite a recent unsuccessful grant application, and plans to further evaluate a potential housing bond through the upcoming housing strategic plan and FY26 goals.
  • Reilly Stahl updated the council on climate, transportation, and stormwater initiatives, highlighting new partnerships to expand residential renewable energy, integration of clean energy and stormwater measures into development review, implementation of sidewalk and ADA access improvements, adoption of parking reforms, and the shelving of an energy-performance tracking goal for rentals due to state legal constraints.
  • Reilly Stahl reported on economic sustainability efforts, describing work with regional partners to support diverse local businesses, advance higher-density mixed-use development downtown, and expand tourism through targeted promotion of town events and festivals.
  • Reilly Stahl reported that a recreation center feasibility study had not advanced due to not being in the budget and noted recent progress in commissioning culturally representative public art, including a new mural at the Drakeford Library complex and ongoing collaboration with the Arts Commission on future murals.
  • Reilly Stahl outlined land use priorities, explaining that staff had been identifying areas for increased density along transit corridors and nodes and expanding commercial and mixed-use opportunities through the downtown area plan, UDO rewrite, and upcoming small area plans.
  • Reilly Stahl introduced a new FY26 performance measures initiative and online dashboard. The performance measures are meant to be annual goals, as compared to the large scale goals of the Comprehensive Plan which is a 20 year plan broken into 5 year blocks. The performance measures will be actively updated and open to the council and public via the online dashboard.
  • Reilly Stahl explained how the new performance measures tied into the Comprehensive Plan by using a weatherization strategy for low-income neighborhoods as an example. This is how the Dashboard looks, and how the new yearly goals work, updated each quarter.
  • Mayor Foushee emphasized that the Town of Carrboro should engage in information gathering as it relates to the homeless in Carrboro -- being aware of encampments and gathering information to help the town do more.
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