Greene Tract
The Greene Tract consists of 164 acres in southeastern Orange County. Orange County owns 60 acres of the land. The Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Orange County jointly own the remaining 104 acres.
Consultant teams and staff from the three local governments have been working together with the community to create a plan for development of the Greene Tract. The engagement process elevated the voices of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood area, a historically African American residential community located close to the Greene Tract. The centering of these voices fulfills a decades-long commitment to repair racial and environmental injustices of the past. The engagement for this plan included the following activities:
- Three well-attended community workshops
- Monthly Engagement Team meetings
- Monthly Newsletters
- Stakeholder Interviews
In September and October 2024, the three jurisdictions approved a shared vision and draft land use plan for the Greene Tract that will have a mix of uses, including:
- Mixed-income housing
- Natural area
- Recreation space
- Potential public school site
- Possible small-scale commercial spaces
This page will help us inform and engage the community throughout the upcoming development process.
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Updates
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS PHASE
Spring/Fall 2025
The Greene Tract jurisdictional partners (Orange County/Town of Carrboro/Town of Chapel Hill) will work with UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) to determine the financial needs and feasibility of the project. DFI will provide pre-development services, including:
- Conducting a financial feasibility analysis on the adopted Master Plan;
- Determining the scale of public investment required, at varying levels of affordability, to achieve public interests;
- Marketing the project to qualified private developer(s); and
- Supporting the Greene Tract jurisdictional partners throughout the process of working with a private developer(s), who will eventually construct the project.
DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENT PHASE
Spring 2025
This phase of the project will include any approvals needed from the Planning Commission, Zoning Administrator, or Town Council that is required by the planning code before a project may secure a building permit.
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Videos
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Due to COVID-19 and limitations in conducting community outreach, the local governments, in partnership with SynTerra, agreed to produce a webinar video in order to present the Greene Tract Environmental Assessment to the public.
