INC NEWS - Concerned Residents Urged to Contact N.C. Attorney General’s Office

[David Harris]

Misleading Information Being Circulated to Southwest Durham Residents

Concerned Residents Urged to Contact N.C. Attorney General’s Office

Durham, N.C. – It has come to the attention of the City and County of Durham that many residents in the Kentington Heights neighborhood (Massey Chapel Road area) in southwestern Durham have recently received a letter regarding selling their property to a developer. The letter threatens that if they do not sell their property to the developer, the City or the County of Durham could proceed with eminent domain and could take the “entire development for the public good.”  The letter goes on to state that residents will receive much less money through eminent domain than they would receive from the developer for the property. 

Neither the City nor the County have plans to exercise eminent domain in this area. According to County Attorney Chuck Kitchen, under North Carolina law eminent domain cannot be used in this manner.

Any residents of the Kentington Heights neighborhood who have received the letter are urged to call the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office at 877-5-NO-SCAM with concerns.

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Prepared by: 
Wil Glenn
Public Information Specialist
(919) 560-0000
County Managers Office
200 East Main Street 
Durham, NC 27701 

Durham County Government Official Website: 
http://www.durhamcountync.gov/ 

David Harris
919-906-2023
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