Project Overview

The Town is planning for the redevelopment of its Trinity Court public housing community in an initiative titled Re-Imagine Trinity Court. This effort is a first step and key element of the Town’s Public Housing Master Plan to revitalize its aging public housing stock, to improve housing conditions and, where possible, to increase density to make more efficient use of Town land. This project also reflects the Town’s strategy to use Town-owned land to help support the development of affordable housing in the Town. 

Background

Trinity Court was built in 1975, offering 40 units of public housing to families until it was vacated in 2018 due to structural deficiencies and deterioration of buildings. After weighing the options for how to bring the units back online,  Council directed staff in May 2020 to begin planning for the comprehensive redevelopment of the Trinity Court community.

The Town’s goals guiding the redevelopment of Trinity Court include:

• Replacing all public housing units originally located at the site

• Maximizing the number of additional affordable units on the Site

• Adjusting the bedroom mix to match demand while maintaining the current total bed count

• Ensuring new development is compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods and fits within the constraints of the sites

• Minimizing the need for Town gap financing through leverage of outside funding

The project concept seeks to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the location of the site.  The site is adjacent to the Northside neighborhood and is surrounded by multifamily and single family homes.  The site looks out over 10 acres of wooded Town land onto Umstead Park (0.3 miles away) and the Tanyard Branch Greenway trail. There is a bus stop at the site’s entrance, and Northside Elementary School is located 0.5 miles from the site.

Project status

In June 2021, the Town signed an MOU with an experienced affordable housing development partner, Community Housing Partners (CHP), selected to lead the effort to plan, demolish, and reconstruct the community.  In April 2022 Council approved a conditional zoning for the site that includes 54 units of affordable housing that will serve households earning incomes at or below 30% of Area Median Income (AMI) up to households serving less than 80% of AMI.

In October 2022, the project received a 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credit award that will bring more than $10 million in funding to the project. The project will break ground in summer 2024 and should open in winter 2026.

The development team has implemented ongoing community engagement to gather feedback on the project.  The CHP project webpage provides more information about these meetings and other ways to provide feedback on and learn about the project.

The Town of Chapel Hill provides language assistance to residents at no cost for Town services, programs, and meetings, including interpretation and translation. To request these services, please contact 919-969-5105.

El pueblo de Chapel Hill ofrece asistencia lingüística a los residentes sin costo por los servicios, programas y reuniones de la ciudad, incluida la interpretación y la traducción. Para solicitar estos servicios, comunicarse al: (919) 969-5105.

教堂山镇为使用本镇各项服务、节目及会议的居民提供免费语言援助，包括口译和翻译。欲申请这些服务，请联系 919-969-5105。

Chapel Hill မြို့သည်ဒေသခံများအတွက်မြို့တွင်းဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ၊  ပရိုဂရမ် အစီအစဉ်များနှင့်အစည်းအဝေးများ အတွက်အပါအဝင် စကားပြန်ခြင်းနှင့်ဘာသာပြန်ခြင်းအတွက်လည်းကုန်ကျစရိတ်များပေးစရာမလိုပဲဘာသာစကား အထောက်အပံ့ ရရှိနိုင်ရန်အခမဲ့ ကူညီပေးသည်။ ဤဝန်ဆောင်မှုများကိုတောင်းခံလိုပါက ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ ၉၁၉-၉၆၈-၂၇၅၆ သို့ဆက်သွယ်ပါ

တၢ်ပာ်ဖျါလၢဝ့ၢ်အတၢ်ကွဲးနီ၃်ကွဲးဃါဂီၢ်ဝ့ၢ်ခၠးပၢၤဟ့(Chapel Hill) ကတဲၤကတီၤဝဲကျိာ်တၢ်တိၢ်စၢၤမၤစၢၤကလီပှၤလၢအအိ၃်တၢ်ဆိးတၢ်လၢဟီ၃်ကဝီၤပူၤအံၤလၢတဘ၃်ဟ့၃်အဘူးအလဲဘ၃်လၢဝ့ၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤအဂီၢ်, တၢ်ရဲ၃်တၢ်ကျဲၤတဖ၃်အဂီၢ်, ဒီးတၢ်အိ၃်ဖှိ၃်တဖ၃်အဂီၢ်, ပ၃်ဃုာ် တၢ်ကတိၤကျိာ်ထံ ဒီး တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံ. လၢတၢ်ဃ့ထီ၃်တၢ်မၤစၢၤတဖ၃်အဂီၢ် ဝံသးစူၤစဲးကျီၤဘ၃်ဖဲ ၉၁၉-၉၆၈-၂၇၅၆