INC NEWS - Rezoning Votes before NCDOT review -- contact Mayor Bell

[Pat Carstensen]

Small developments don't need a traffic impact analysis (the lower limit should be lower, IMHO. It's at least 100 trips per hour -- I could look it up), so you'd probably need to be putting in something like American Tobacco to have this apply to re-development.  

Neighbors aren't allowed to comment on traffic because they aren't "qualified."  Consultants who do the study, in our experience, routinely "make adjustments" (polite for "cheat") -- for example, doing their study the week the students aren't here.  If problems come up after the approval, the options are:
* Tax-payers pay for the fixes 
* Piles of extra costs for the developer (not exactly the certainty they are looking for)
* We just get along with unsafe roads

The root cause is that on this, and other things, the state hasn't funded enough people to do the work on time.  If you want to fix the problem, put the funds into getting the review done more quickly.

Regards, pat

> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:40:53 -0700
> From: mmr121570 at yahoo.com
> To: Ken at KenGasch.com; inc-list at DurhamINC.org
> Subject: Re: INC NEWS - Rezoning Votes before NCDOT review -- contact Mayor	Bell
> 
> Some city folks seem to forget that these measures/changes do not apply solely to in-fill and in-city-center areas. The result in suburban and rural Durham could be disastrous. We are already dealing with overcrowded schools...Volunteers at my daughters school have problems finding parking in the middle of the day! And work/school traffic is becoming a nightmare down here in Southern Durham  -- just ask Chapel Hill elected officials whose city suffers because it is adjacent to or actually within this part of Durham County.
> 
> As we were advised to wait to get a proper definition for a neighborhood advocate, which would benefit Durham neighborhoods, then why should we be advised to go ahead with this? Because, on the contrary, it benefits developers/homebuilders and those who receive their funding?
> 
> You can't have it both ways -- at least not rationally/fairly so.
> 
> That said, if Mayor Bell wants to amend this measure to apply to in-fill developments only, and exempt rural and suburban Durham, that's another measure altogether. But I know of many city-folks who would object to this. No matter where you live, you should be given the opportunities to become informed and to have your say in rezonings around you. Anything else is simply undemocratic.
> 
> Melissa
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Ken Gasch <Ken at KenGasch.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ken Gasch <Ken at KenGasch.com>
> > Subject: RE: INC NEWS - Rezoning Votes before NCDOT review -- contact Mayor Bell
> > To: mmr121570 at yahoo.com, inc-list at DurhamINC.org
> > Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 6:48 AM
> > There still exists vast expanses of boarded up areas in
> > Durham that need to
> > be redeveloped. Time is money. We are in competition with
> > other
> > municipalities for private capital. Is it wise to object to
> > this measure?
> > 
> > Ken Gasch
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org
> > [mailto:inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org]On
> > Behalf Of Melissa Rooney
> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:48 PM
> > To: inc-list at DurhamINC.org
> > Subject: INC NEWS - Rezoning Votes before NCDOT review --
> > contact Mayor
> > Bell
> > 
> > 
> > Hello again. Since sending my email, I have been reminded
> > of the need to
> > call or write Mayor Bell directly with my concerns
> > regarding his prompting
> > of the acceleration of rezoning votes, even before NCDOT
> > review.
> > 
> > I have also been reminded that Mayor Bell does not often
> > check email.
> > 
> > So please call or write (via snail mail) to Mayor Bell with
> > your concerns
> > about this important matter:
> > 
> > William V. "Bill" Bell - Mayor
> > Phone: (919) 560-4333
> > Office of the Mayor
> > 101 City Hall Plaza
> > Durham, NC 27701
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > Melissa
> > 
> > Melissa Rooney
> > mmr121570 at yahoo.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
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