[Durham INC] DRAFT April minutes

Thu Apr 27 06:38:23 EDT 2017

Please let me know about any additions or changes.  Regards, pat

April Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
NIS Conference Room, Golden Belt
April 28, 2017

Attending the meeting were:
Neighborhoods
Colony Park – Don Lebkes
Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen
Falconbridge – Dick Ford
Golden Belt – DeDreana Freeman
Lochaven Hills – Tom Buhrman
Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias
Morehead Hill – Rochelle Araujo
Northgate Park – Debra Hawkins
Orange Factory Road – Patrick and Marie Mahoney
Parkwood – Janet Hitti
Old North Durham –Peter Katz, John Martin
Trinity Park – Philip Azar

Visitors
Will Wilson – DOST
Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS
Jeffrey Sullivan – GoTriangle

Vice-president Peter Katz opened the meeting, and members introduced themselves.

John Martin moved approval of March minutes and this passed.

Jeffery Sullivan of GoTriangle gave a presentation on the transit plan. Growth is great, but brings challenges – congestion, changes in air quality, loss of open space, continued mobility and access to jobs and education for everyone, for example. Durham GoTriangle adopted a long-term plan in 2011, and Orange did in 2012; these combined plans include 85K more bus hours per year in next 5 years, bus facility improvements, bus lanes, a Hillsborough train station for Amtrak, and the rail projects. There have been a lot of changes to funding, such as not getting discretionary federal grants for buses and the state reducing their share of light rail from 25% to 10%; the overall impact is that local taxes will have to cover more of the costs and we will have to borrow more. We have a new plan as we have fleshed out some costs, finding out, for example, that the bus facilities will be more expensive than thought in 2011.  The presentation can be downloaded from this link: http://ourtransitfuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0301H_INC_PRES_Durham-County-Transit-Plan.pdf

The Committee for Neighborhood Heroes 2018 is looking at past rewards so we don’t honor the same thing twice (although the same person can be nominated for different things).

As a follow-up on the Lochaven Resolution, City Council decision was postponed until June so folks still have opportunities to support the neighborhood.  A number of strategy suggestions were made by members present.

As a follow-up on Future of Durham Neighborhoods presentation last month. DeDreana is looking at a panel on water for next month.

Pat Carstensen will send out a report on Bill Board Revisions to Outdoor Adverting Laws  (H 579, H 580, H 173, H 578 and H 581), five bills under consideration in the NC General Assembly that would help the industry.

Orange Factory Road – A charter school on Little River Reservoir got a special use permit; the school for hundreds of students will be using a septic system. The neighborhood is appealing and could use technical help.  Their website is https://orangefactoryroad.wixsite.com/mysite.
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Orange Factory Road<https://orangefactoryroad.wixsite.com/mysite>
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Durham's drinking water is being threatened by a plan to put 3,000 gallons of septic waste water a day 650 feet from Little River Reservoir.

Neighborhood announcements

  *   The renovations on the historic house that was going to be torn down in Old North Durham are nearly finished and it looks beautiful. The pocket neighborhood that was supposed to be gorgeous, done by the developer who was going to tear down the house, looks like it is from East Germany. We need to do better at insisting on attractive design of apartments.
  *   The second of the season Northgate Park Food Truck Rodeo is this week.
  *   The Beaver Queen Pageant is coming up. There are 6 contestants and voting (or bribing) is open. http://beaverqueen.swellgives.com
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The Beaver Queen Pageant<http://beaverqueen.swellgives.com/>
beaverqueen.swellgives.com
The 2017 Beaver Queen Pageant, The Wizard of Gnawz, will be held at Duke Park on Saturday, June 3. This fun and creative community event is a fundraiser for the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association. Vote early and vote often!

  *   One final Yappy Hour at Durham Central Park is coming up.

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