The Community Leadership Council announced dates to visit Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday.
The trip, part of the CLC's Inter-City Visit initiative, is meant to compare Chapel Hill and Carrboro to another college town.
About 100 people will visit Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is located, Sept. 14-16 to examine social services and homelessness in the town, as well as other common issues college towns face.
The CLC made a similar trip in 2006 to Madison, Wisc., to visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"The Chamber of Commerce (in Ann Arbor) is about as excited as anyone I've ever talked to on the phone," said Aaron Nelson, president and CEO of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
"He's already talking about coming to visit us in 2009."
Nelson and several other CLC members, including Downtown Partnership Executive Director Liz Parham, will make an advance trip to Ann Arbor in March.
No price has been set for the trip yet.
Nelson invited CLC members to join the trip planning committee and said the Council is looking into "greening sponsors" to offset the carbon emission of the trip.
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