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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">February Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Via Zoom</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">February 22, 2022</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Attending the meeting were:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Neighborhoods</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Bragtown – Vannessa Mason Evans</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Burch Avenue – Richard Ziglar</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Emory Woods – Thelma Glenn White</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Falconbridge – Richard Ford </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Leesville Road Coalition – Steven Knill</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Long Meadow – Michael Throop</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#212121;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Merrick-Moore – Bonita Green</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#212121;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Morehead Hill –
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#212121;font-weight:400">Rochelle Araujo</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Old West Durham – David Eklund</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Trinity Park – Philip Azar, Mimi Kessler</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Guests</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Annette Smith – Durham Parks and Recreation, Durham Parks Foundation</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Will Wilson – Past President of INC</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Constance Stancil – NIS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Faith Gardner – NIS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">James Davis – NIS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Lynwood Best – NIS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#212121;font-weight:400">Daniel Singer</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Deb Hawkins</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Dereana Freeman</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Thelma Glenn White</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Elaine</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400">President Bonita Green called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone; those present introduced themselves.
There were no adjustments to the agenda. Vannessa Mason Evans moved to approve the minutes of the last meeting, Susan Sewell seconded and this was passed.</span></p>
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now has 49 people on staff, in 5 divisions. They are part of the city’s equitable and green infrastructure efforts, by engaging communities to promote equity in discussions of new infrastructure. As part of NIS’s work is in code enforcement (structure codes,
junked cars, overgrown yards, etc. since “safe housing is everyone’s right”), they are trying to help low-wealth home-owners bring their property up to code and are periodically reviewing processes to make sure it is racially equitable. They are looking at
code enforcement in the county. The Impact Team does proactive services such as removing graffiti and illegal dump sites; they also support neighborhood clean ups and other public events. The Human Relations has added new responsibilities for non-discriminations
in public accommodations (expanding from fair housing and making some protected classes explicit), is doing multi-lingual education about fair housing and non-discrimination and is examining the data on the eviction crisis though an equity lens. NIS is the
source and champions of the community engagement process, which is key to good business, good governance and quality service delivery. The Community Engagement Division has done community stories, an NCCU course, neighborhood matching grants, police and community
relations, and many other programs. They have re-imagined services with COVID, with education about masks, virtual cooking classes, blood pressure clinics and other grants; they also did community out-reach for things like the 2020 census. State statute
now says a city can’t put specific efforts into quality of rental housing, and renters fearing eviction may not be willing to make complaints, so NIS’s efforts are concentrated on education. Also violations are no longer a misdemeanor, which limits power.
NIS’s website is:</span></p>
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<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/durhamnc.gov/4212/About-Neighborhood-Improvement-Services__;!!OToaGQ!8oQrjfCAmz3h9BXTNZClKL1SepCtfZRyYBM9L3_egVK2WIIajcLQW6fkJThB_SF40JY$"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000ff;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://durhamnc.gov/4212/About-Neighborhood-Improvement-Services</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Bylaws</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> – Philip talked to the Duke Community Law Clinic about finishing up the bylaws;
Andrew Foster will work on it if no student is available to work on it.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Neighborhood Reports and Announcements</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Emory Woods</span><span> – A developer is using Emory Woods streets to get to their work site; they have noisy big trucks carrying big trees out and carrying concrete in, not to mention blocking their street with these big trucks.
This is dangerous for the walkers with children and dogs. They are supposed to come in a different route, but choose not one. The developer hasn’t provided green space (so the residents of his community use Emory Woods park and it would be more equitable
if he paid for improvement to the park). He also did not provide a left turn in the entrance to NC55 from the new development, which will push traffic to entrances of other neighborhoods. He put in as little sidewalk as possible. Crime is coming in through
the street he opened up. Emory Woods has been trying to get City Council to do something. Planning and Zoning does no policing. There are no standards for how developers interact with their neighbors, and this is not the only neighborhood with the problem.
The trucks in the neighborhood may be a noise ordinance issue, but enforcement of the noise ordinance has been difficult. Generally the City doesn’t have a good process for all of this; a single contact for this kind of issues would be helpful. </span></p>
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<span style="color:#201f1e">There was a very raucous student party in TLNA that has gotten some media attention after one neighbor started a petition to remove fraternities from neighborhoods. The multiple calls to police were not handled according to the DNU/Durham
Police Dept protocol and the Durham Police are working on why and fixing the issue. The news coverage has brought several other neighborhoods into contact with DNU. We hope the coverage will bring more movement with Duke and help us educate our new City Council
Members. We had not been watching as closely since the parties had been reduced due to the new protocol in 2018 and then covid. </span></p>
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<span>Bragtown’s is asking for support on gap funding for the affordable housing in the recently approved development.</span></p>
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<span>Parks and Rec got a grant from KABOOM! to build a new playground to Burton Park; in conjunction, Parks and Rec plans some other work in the park, such as re-routing walks. Look for calls for volunteers to help on this project. Annette is moving to General
Services where she will be doing work with public art. </span></p>
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<span>On the Duke omnibus rezoning, Burch Avenue worked very hard to develop a list of committed elements to ask for. The meeting with Duke was horrible since they didn’t seem to be willing to listen to the neighbors until Tom Miller spoke up; we will see
how much far the “Duke gets whatever it wants” attitude goes. </span></p>
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<span>On the small house/small lot applications, the map was shared on list-serve; reach out to David if you have ideas on data or analysis to help us understand what is going on.</span></p>
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<span>The development next to Merrick-Moore is back, all town-homes, fewer units. The “conservation” part is in the northern part that they couldn’t get annexed, leaving the units crunched against Merrick-Moore, and especially the area they are developing
into a garden park. A concern is the flooding due to the topography. It is by-right so there is no rezoning, but the community would like to have protection against a 200-year flood.</span></p>
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