weekly summer issue Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 119, Issue 42 dailytarheel.com Thursday, May 12, 2011 Council Oks homeless shelter permanent beds and 17 emergen- ing safety, over-concentration of Czajkowski said he would have bors, the council stipulated that IFC PLAN OVER THE YEARS Residents say their cy cots in a two-story building. services and the possibility of the preferred to approve the move the IFC craft a Good Neighbor safety concerns were IFC Executive Director Chris shelter housing sex offenders as but continue discussion of the Plan and present it to the council Jan. 1985: Shelter opens on Moran said the organization will their key concerns. emergency cot system — which before the lease is completed. Rosemary Street not addressed. now go through a zoning compli- Neighboring resident Lisa prompted an elevated level of A draft of the plan includes May 5, 2008: Town and University ance permit process for the $3.5 Ostrom said she doesn’t think concern from residents — during running background checks on announce new homeless shelter By Sarah Glen million to $4 million project that any of the community’s concerns the four-to-five-year construction clients and monitoring resident partnership City Editor will take about four months. have been addressed. phase of the project. behavior to prevent loitering, lit- Oct. 19, 2009: Council reviews IFC “There’s a lot of detailed work “There are no conditions in the “You have a whole group of tering or harmful behavior. But Concept Plan After more than three years of that we have to do, but the hard- special-use permit to provide any neighbors who basically feel as Moran said the first step will be June 21, 2010: IFC submits Special contentious debate, the Chapel est parts are behind us,” he said. neighborhood protection,” she though very little of what they to listen to what all the parties Use Permit application Hill Town Council approved a “The project sounds more believ- said. “This means that the appli- asked for ended up in the (special- involved have to say. special-use permit Monday night able than it did before the coun- cant has promised to do some use permit),” he said. “Their voices “We have been instructed to March 21, 2011: More than 45 that will allow for the expansion cil’s approval, so it’s easier for things and we have to take it on were not really paid much heed.” get this moving, and that’s what residents protest shelter move at of a local homeless shelter. funders to respond.” faith that they will make good on Moran said the emergency cots we’re going to do,” he said. “This public hearing for IFC Special Use The Inter-Faith Council for But the shelter’s move was not a 50-year promise.” are a crucial part of the project. is a plan that we want to be able Permit application Social Service’s Community met with unanimous approval. Council members Matt “Not having them would be to live by and want a majority of May 9, 2011: Council approves IFC House men’s shelter will move Residents of the neighboring Czajkowski and Laurin Easthom like building a hospital without the neighbors to live with.” Special Use Permit application at from its 100 W. Rosemary St. Homestead Park community voted against the approval at an emergency room,” he said. 5-hour meeting location to 1315 Martin Luther have opposed the move since it Monday night’s meeting with To promote further discussion Contact the City Editor SOURCE: TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL, DTH ARCHIVES Kind Jr. Blvd. and will offer 52 was first announced in 2008, cit- these concerns in mind. between the shelter and its neigh- at [email protected]. DTH/ANNA THOMPSON HERE COMES THE SUN Project defaults on loan Greenbridge, which Bank of America says owes almost $29 million, will make a court appearance on May 16. By Chelsey Dulaney Staff Writer It started as an ambitious idea six years ago — to create a sustainable residential development that promotes environmentally friendly living. But for the partners of Greenbridge Developments, the 10-story mixed-use development that opened in downtown Chapel Hill last fall, the dream could soon come to an end. After selling less than half of its 97 condomini- ums, Greenbridge has defaulted on its loan and could go up for sale June 27 unless the project finds a lender to cover its debt. DTH/ERIN HULL On April 8, Bank of America, which financed a The class of 2011 sings the final lines of UNC’s alma mater, “Hark the Sound.” The song marked the end of the University’s graduation ceremony in Kenan Stadium. $43.8 million loan for the development, filed docu- ments to appoint a temporary receiver to oversee Graduates encouraged to be ‘public assets,’ mind planet the development’s operations. The documents initiated foreclosure proceed- By Lyle Kendrick private giving goal of 43 percent participation. Senior class president Liz Deane looked back ings, claiming Greenbridge owes the bank about $28.7 million on its loan. The filing also states that University Editor The commencement speaker, Harvard upon the accomplishments and tragedies of the University professor emeritus and biologist E.O. graduating class’s time at UNC in her speech. Greenbridge owes 13 different companies money. While waiting for the rain that never came, Wilson, revived the theme of fusing knowledge She reminisced about the successful men’s bas- “The borrower is in default,” said Shirley Norton, members of the class of 2011 waved colorful and action in a short speech about the changing ketball team and women’s field hockey team. spokeswoman for Bank of America. umbrellas and Mother’s Day signs in an effort to environment. She also noted widespread philanthropic efforts “We’ve been trying to work with them for some attract the attention of family and friends who “The 21st century is going to be the century of and the University’s response to the death of for- time to no avail.” attended the May 8 commencement. the environment,” he said. mer Student Body President Eve Carson. At a May 16 hearing, Chip Shelton of Charlotte- But the emphasis at Kenan Stadium was placed Wilson said the graduating class will need to “In times of adversity, Carolina rises,” Deane based Liberty Solutions will become the develop- on fueling individual drive towards bettering soci- carry the torch in solving the environmental prob- said. ment’s permanent receiver, Norton said. As the ety rather than sticking out. lems being faced by the planet due to the use of While graduates were urged to use their educa- temporary receiver, Shelton has overseen all opera- “Our founders believed that an educated person “godlike technology.” tions to better society, speakers also emphasized a tions of the $54 million property, like collecting is a public asset,” said Bob Winston, chairman of “We will have to evolve a better human order theme of nostalgia and trepidation about leaving rents and maintaining the grounds. the Board of Trustees. than we have now,” he said. the University. Norton said the bank has worked with the devel- Chancellor Holden Thorp pointed out the spirit But not all of the ceremony focused on the chal- opers to avoid foreclosure, which came as a last of service within the class, noting that it passed its lenges facing the 2011 graduates. SEE GRADUATION, PaGE 4 resort. “We’ve restructured the loan several times. We gave them additional funds last summer, but they went over budget again,” she said. “We’re still hopeful we Q&A WITH COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER will be able to work something out with the borrower.” Greenbridge developer Tim Toben did not return calls for comment. Wilson stresses biology in 21st century Matt Czajkowski, a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council, said he thinks the development is facing the threat of foreclosure because of the poor By Andy Thomason class Sunday, Wilson remarked been that we are egocentric. We state of the real estate market. Summer Editor on the environmental challenges think that everything that hap- “To me, what Greenbridge has shown is really a of the 21st century. pens to and from us is all about reflection of what’s happened all over this country,” As a boy, E.O. Wilson liked In an interview from his home us. It’s sort of a species narcis- he said. “Projects were built with the expectation spending time with ants. in Lexington, Mass. on May 5, sism, you know? they could be sold at a certain price, but after the More than half a century after Wilson discussed environmental As a species, we really haven’t real estate market crashed they can no longer be deciding on entomology as a skepticism, his southern heritage figured out what we are and sold for that price point.” career path, he is one of the most and recent controversy. where we came from and, until Czajkowski said he thinks people are beginning famous scientists in the world. we do, it’s going to be a big prob- to move away from buying to renting, which also Wilson invented the field of lem figuring out what to do, over- DTH: How do we juggle the might have been a factor in Greenbridge’s inability sociobiology in the 1970s, a then- all, as a species-wide policy. problems of global warming and to sell its units. controversial development in the destruction of biodiversity, DTH: I’ve grown up in a society, “There’s not so strong a sentiment to own homes the evolutionary theory of social specifically of the smallest organ- I think, that has a large dose of anymore,” he said.