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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> INC-list <inc-list-bounces@lists.deltaforce.net> on behalf of Pat Carstensen <pats1717@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 3, 2021 8:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> inc listserv <inc-list@lists.deltaforce.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Durham INC] DRAFT Sept minutes</font>
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Please let me know about additions or corrections. <span id="" title="" class="">Thanks,</span> pat</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">September Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">Via Zoom</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">September 28, 2021</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Attending the meeting were:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Bragtown – Vannessa Mason Evans</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Burch Avenue – Richard Ziglar</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Colonial Village -- Charles Giamberardino</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(51,51,51); font-weight:400">Sarah Morris </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Merrick-Moore – Bonita Green</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Morehead Hill –
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400">Rochelle Araujo</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400">Northgate Park -- Keith Cochran, Debra Hawkins</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Old West Durham – David Eklund</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Trinity Park – Philip Azar, Mimi Kessler, Mary Molina, Jennifer Franklin </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Annette Smith -- Durham Parks and Recreation, Durham Parks Foundation</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Will Wilson -- president of INC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">President Will Wilson called the meeting to order, and those present introduced themselves. We added the Burch Avenue meeting with Duke University to the agenda.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Tom Miller</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">moved
to approve the August minutes, Bonita Green seconded, and the minutes were approved. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Land Trusts: This is the initial presentation of an intended series on tools and solutions for some of the issues facing neighborhoods.
Durham Community Land Trust (DCLT)was created in 1987 to address the cycle of deterioration in west end communities -- primarily West End, Burch Avenue and Lyon Park. The point is to have development without displacement. A community land trust is a non-profit
corporation to acquire and hold land for the benefit of the community, mainly for affordable housing, but may also be for community gardens, commercial needs and other purposes. The affordable housing can be ownership or rental. Boards of land trusts general
have tripartite structure (residents, community members and members of the general public). Houses are generally sold with the land retained by the trust in order to “recycle” affordability and the subsidy. They renovate housing they acquire to make the
housing attractive, energy-efficient, and so on. The model also builds community power and connection; they raise up people who can speak for the neighborhood. Improving the neighborhood also attracts private investment; for example, businesses often start
thriving nearby. DCLT can no longer afford to expand in the west end communities, and they are now acquiring and renovating units in Southside and NE Central Durham. Some things to look for to evaluate opportunity areas for land trust growth include city
and county land and “heir properties,” and land banks (holding land while gathering funds to renovate) can be a useful tool. They need to balance wealth-creation for one owner and the affordability to the next. The Land Trust tool ideally stands with regulatory
controls and other mechanisms. Obviously with all the gentrification, the mission of the Land Trust is getting harder. One of the ways the land trust supports its residents is teaching basic them maintenance skills.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Bylaws Revision Update</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
The by-laws were created many years ago and have evolved over time so the the committee is recommending a “restatement” -- basically totally re-writing. The basic operations of INC are retained, but we want to:</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bring bylaws into alignment with NC law, </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Enlarge the membership guidelines since some neighborhood that support INC and regularly attend don’t meet the current formal standards for a “neighborhood” </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Give some flexibility so that, for example, coalitions of neighborhoods can be members</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">We will get the DRAFT of bylaws onto the agenda for October in a way that meets the legal requirements for getting it considered. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Susan sent out a request for questions for candidates in this year’s
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">municipal elections
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">and reviewed available questionnaires from the Independent, League of Women Voters, and People’s Alliance to see what questions
of interest to neighborhoods have not been asked. Susan, Will and Bonita will finish the questions and send them out to the winners after Tuesday.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">INC Slate</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> for
the next year -- The committee has nominated:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Vice President -- ???</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Secretary -- Pat</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Treasurer -- Susan</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">At-Large Executive Committee -- Sarah, Vanessa</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Communications -- Pakis</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">We will vote on this slate in October.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Development Project updates</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Duke Rezoning</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
Burch Avenue folks, with Susan Sewell, met with Duke University about their rezoning to University Campus. The properties would have a development plan, but Duke’s idea of a development plan is basically an outline, with nothing about what the use might be.
Duke wants consistency across their properties, and it is more convenient for them to get them all done at once, although they don’t know what they want to do with each property. The neighborhood is concerned about things like traffic flow and will be looking
at how “committed elements” could limit impacts to the neighborhood. We are also concerned about other pieces of their re-zoning effort.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Watts Hospital Hillandale has started meeting with a developer interested in the</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700"> Best
Products </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">building. There are single-family homes on the other (east) side of Lasalle, which would then be a target for
more intensity. The developer would put a 5-story apartment building with a large number of affordable housing. This may be another case where Council will use a development agreement (which is a nicely flexible tool, but has concerns about transparency
and public process). The current zoning is industrial.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Another concern is
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Rosewalk</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">,
a big apartment complex, on the north side of Club Boulevard, because of cumulative traffic impact with Northgate re-development.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bioblitz week -- get out there with iNaturalist and identify wild things out there. Please check out:
</span><a href="https://www.ellerbecreek.org/bioblitz.html"><span style="font-size:9pt; color:rgb(51,122,183); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.ellerbecreek.org/bioblitz.html</span></a></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wrightwood Park is re-opening a new playground and has dedicated the Dr. Robert Durden history grove. For more on history groves: https://www.museumofdurhamhistory.org/learn/history-groves/</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Barktoberfest is October 23rd. https://www.dprplaymore.org/276/Barktoberfest</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A couple more pop-up food truck events will be at Northgate Park.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Big Sweep is coming up: https://keepdurhambeautiful.org/big-sweep</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Preservation Durham’s annual home tour is October 16-17, focusing on Tudor Revival homes: https://preservationdurham.org/2021-home-tour/</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Adjourn.</span></p>
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