INC NEWS - Agenda fof 10/25 meeting, including resolution text

[pat carstensen]

AGENDA
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
Monthly meeting on Tuesday October 25, 2005
7-9pm in the Community Room
HERALD-SUN Building (2828 Pickett Road)
Directions: http://www.durhamINC.org/meetings.html
Refreshments are provided

Welcome and Introductions (10 min)	    Mike Woodard, President

Discussion Items / Presentations (40 min)
q Parking in Yards	Patrick Baker
     Update on the issue
q Resolution on Information on Rental Properties
    Discuss and potentially approve resolution stated below
q November / December Meetings
   Do we want to combine meetings, and do it on November 29 (5th Tuesday)

INC Elections  (20 min)

Updates  (20 min)

q Minutes and Treasurer’s Report            	Pat  / Randy
q Yard Waste
q Neighborhood Hero Awards
q Unified Development Ordinance
q Bond Oversight
q Other Updates or New Business

Announcements / Events (5 min)

q Appearance Commission Survey

For additional information, contact Mike Woodard
To update information on your neighborhood, neighbors at durham-cvb.com or 
680-8328

"Only in the continuous encounter with other persons, does the person become 
and remain a person.
The place of this encounter is the community"
www.durhamINC.org

Resolution on Public Information  on Rental Properties

Whereas
The GIS maps available to the public via the City of Durham website make it 
easy for citizens to identify property owners. However, nearly half the 
properties in Durham overall are rental properties, and many of these 
properties are managed by property management companies. When there are 
problems with these properties or the tenants in them, such as possible code 
violations, lack of lawn or structure maintenance, noise violations, or 
criminal activity, there is no easy way for citizens to identify and inform 
the property managers of these problems. These kinds of problems have a 
negative impact on neighborhoods, discouraging residents from investing 
financially and emotionally in their neighborhoods and encouraging 
negligence and criminal activity.

And whereas
The InterNeighborhood Council (INC) of Durham believes that the city of 
Durham should do everything in its power to encourage citizens to actively 
address the problems that contribute to neighborhood blight and criminal 
activity.

Therefore, INC resolves that the City of Durham to require that all property 
managers who manage three (3) or more rental properties in the City of 
Durham provide a complete listing of their rental properties to be posted on 
a city-sponsored website that will be open to the public and searchable by 
street address, and to require that these listings be updated every six 
months.