The town of Chapel Hill approved a development agreement with UNC to give it the green light to build Carolina North, the university's satellite campus which will be located two miles north of downtown.

The campus is proposed to cover 250 acres of the Horace Williams tract and will be built in phases over the next 50 years. It's expected to bring in thousands of jobs for the state.

"Jobs generally now-a-days are created in biotech and tech-centered," said Matt Czajkowski, Chapel Hill town councilman. "We need to attract a lot more of that."

And that's exactly the goal of Carolina North, but with more people coming to the area to take those jobs, citizens questioned how the university and town would handle the traffic and parking issues that come along with it.

Janet Smith, a member of the grassroots group "Neighbors For Responsible Growth," said residents offered up suggestions that made it into the development agreement between town and gown. For example, making sure proper traffic infrastructure is in place before people move into the buildings. In addition, steps will also be taken to make it bicycle and pedestrian safety.

"They will be continuing to cooperate with transit system and also to put a connection for a bike path to the campus between Carolina North and the main campus as quickly as possible," said Smith.

UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp said the campus will also be environmentally friendly which he said the university is committed to.

"We're going to adhere to the highest possible standards at Carolina North and that's in the development agreement," said Thorp. "And those are higher standards then the town would be able to ask in a regular permit."

Smith said the agreement serves as a contract of trust between UNC, the town, and its residents.

"The university takes the commitments we've made very seriously and we'll all work togeter to honor those," said Thorp.

The UNC Board of Trustees will meet to vote on the development agreement Thursday. They are expected to approve it.