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November Delegate Meeting
First Presbyterian Church
November 30, 2010
Attending the meeting were:
Delegates and Alternates
Cross Counties - Pat Carstensen
Duke Park - Bill Anderson
Golden Belt Neighborhood Association - DeDreana Freeman, John Martin
Old Farm - David Harris
Old North Durham - Peter Katz
Old West Durham - Brett Walters
Watts Hospital Hillandale - Tom Miller, Mike Woodard
Woodcroft - Scott Carter
Visitors
Chloe' Palenchar - Old East Durham
Scott Pearson - Olive Branch Road
Darius Little - Organizing Chadsford subdivision
Jim Wise - News and Observer
Lynwood D. Best - City of Durham, NIS
Folks present introduced themselves. There was no quorum so we couldn't approve the minutes.
Durham had a deadline to update the stream buffers part of the UDO to incorporate state mandates, and decided to ignore the recommendations on widening stream buffers, from the hard-working committee of citizens they appointed. We'll wait to see what develops on this issue.
The Traffic Committee has a long list of traffic and transportation issues in Durham, would like to have a program at a future INC delegate meeting, and thinks we should have neighborhood folks with the expertise to help neighborhoods facing transportation issues. Delegates suggested adding getting rid of the downtown loop and the Markham and Magnum intersection to the list of concerns, and developing a process for taking a position on these issues (making sure we know all the neighborhoods affected, for example). There was further discussion of traffic calming (INC should be encouraging PACE car program since a neighborhood has to have >50% participation for it to be effective) and of the Alston / NC 55 widening.
The Communications Committee reported their recommendations to set up two areas on the INC website:
- Contacts for newsletter editors, which would help editors contact one another, as well as helping potential advertisers contact the right person
- Share-able articles (either from other neighborhoods or from agencies or non-profits, so there could be something on Christmas celebrations or on fire-prevention)
The Committee will go ahead to implement these recommendations and announce the websites on the list-serve. Neighborhoods are asked to get ask newsletter editors to put their contact information out there, as well as to contribute some "pump priming" articles for the article archive. Eventually, it would be great to have a sit-down meeting among editors.
Tom is working on a January program on Liquor Permits, Crime and Neighborhoods. He is talking to the state ABC and state ALE (Alcohol Law Enforcement). PAC2 will also have folks from ABC at their December 13 meeting (6 PM at the DPS Training Center).
Pat will send to the list-serve her short list of what is in the Technical Revisions VI to the UDO.
We have 3 resolutions (Neighborhood Protection, Electronic Billboard Moratorium, and Community Association Manager Licensing) on state legislation we would like implemented, plus the new General Assembly will probably come up with some things we want to fight. We formed a Legislative Committee, with Tom Miller, Mike Shiflett, DeDreana Freeman, Pat Carstensen, and Scott Pearson.
On Neighborhood and Other Reports:
- Trinity Parkis apparently seeing a revised proposal on McPherson Hospital due to the bad publicity from the original plan.There is a plan for the perc contamination from the dry cleaning plant, and implementation will start soon.
- Old West Durham reported the next look at Ninth Street Plan is December 7.
- Golden Belt reported that the new plan on Alston Avenue widening moves the road enough to avoid demolishing the supermarket, but the real question is why we need 82 feet of street when maybe better timing of the lights solve the perceived "slow traffic" problem.The neighborhood has also met with the Durham Rescue Mission on their "campus" plans, which would close 2 streets and knock down a bunch of houses.
- Duke Park will have, for the first time, a Preservation Durham Home Tour in May.
- Watts Hospital / Hillandale's Board of Directors has charged their zoning committee with developing and getting implemented a better model for the Neighborhood Commercial district - which is supposed to be neighborhood-scale businesses like a local watering hole, but often isn't really neighborhood scale (as in the Morreene Road fiasco).
- NIS will be having a Landlord Training Workshop on December 9.If a neighborhood has a lot of rental housing, it may be worth going.The registration is technically closed, but you can probably get in.Contact Lynwood Best,at (919) 560-1647, extension 34254 or via e-mail at
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- Tom met with Chapel Hill's Neighbors for Responsible Growth, about forming an INC in Chapel Hill.This would be a valuable ally.
There will be no December meeting, but Tom will send out info on a party.
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