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Town Center Plan
January 2007
Chapter 4: Implementation
The Town Center Plan lays out a vision for
how Morrisville’s historic crossroads should
develop in the years ahead. This chapter
identifies a number of implementation
measures to pursue this vision (see Table 1).
Each measure represents a separate project
with a lead agency, supporting organizations,
funding source, and approximate start time,
where this information is currently known.
Additional details about each implementation
project, including a schedule, public
involvement opportunities, budget, and
deliverables, will be developed as part of the
scoping work for that particular initiative.
This plan is a living document. As conditions
on the ground in the Town Center evolve,
it will be important to revisit the plan on a
periodic basis, preferably every three to five
years, to make appropriate updates. In
this way, the vision for the Town Center will
continue to remain both inspirational and
relevant.
The next step in the short term is to conduct
more detailed scoping for a number of
the projects listed in Table 1, and to begin
implementing them. A range of potential
implementation strategies for carrying out
these projects are described in Appendix
10. The Morrisville Planning & Zoning Board
(PZB) will monitor progress on this work. The
Morrisville Planning Department will provide
periodic progress reports to the PZB to help
it oversee implementation of the plan.
As Table 1 illustrates, a variety of projects are
needed to pursue the Town Center vision. It
will take years to fully realize this vision. The
work of implementing the plan, however, is
already underway. Each new implementation
project will improve life in Morrisville and
make an important contribution to creating
a vibrant center of community for the town.
We hope you will join with the Town and
community in this work. Together, we can
make this plan a reality.
The Town Center Plan identifies a possible site for a
reconstructed train depot like this one that exists to-
day along the North Carolina Railroad in Thomasville.
(Photo courtesy of the City of Thomasville)
The Town Center Plan calls for a civic/cultural area that
might include a plaza and public gathering space such
as the one pictured here. One initial step in following
up on this recommendation is to conduct a preliminary
needs assessment for a civic/cultural facility that might
anchor this space. (Photo by Ben Hitchings, Town of
Morrisville)