INC NEWS - Neighborhood notification

[pat carstensen]

A couple more points on neighborhood notification

1- A lot of names got dropped from the list in the update (these may not 
have been effective anyhow, since there is no guarantee that someone getting 
notices was passing them on to the neighborhood).  We will bring a copy of 
the notification list to next couple INC meetings so folks can see if they 
(and their neighboring neighborhoods) are still on it. You can also check 
the map and the list on Planning Department's website
durham.nc.us/departments/planning/


2- The former ordinance had a one-mile distance for Plan Amendment. 
Rezonings
had a 1000 foot distance.  The UDO changed this distance to match that for 
rezonings, 1000 feet.
Neighborhoods can request a different area for notification (within reason!)
to take in a different area of interest than what is covered by a
circle drawn 1000 feet beyond the Association boundary -- if, for example, 
your concern is
mostly traffic and that is generated over a larger area.

Regards, pat


>From: "Duke, Frank" <Frank.Duke at durhamnc.gov>
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><Patrick.Baker at durhamnc.gov>,"Lewis A. Cheek" <LCHEEK at HMCLEGAL.COM>, 
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>Subject: Re: INC NEWS - INC-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 6
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:43:31 -0400
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>The Planning Department periodically sends out notices to all
>organizations registered with us asking if they wished to continue to
>receive notice of development activities. We do this because of the
>number of complaints we receive that organizations have changed their
>contact or that they no longer wish to receive notice from us or we
>begin getting material we send out returned as undeliverable. The notice
>that is sent out requests that the organization contact us if they want
>to continue to receive notice from us and advises that the organization
>will be dropped from the contact list if we do not get a response.
>
>This past year, we sent the request out on September 8, 2005, with a
>follow-up reminder sent out on October 14, 2005. Both notices were sent
>out electronically or, for those groups for which we had no email
>contact or the email was returned, via postcard to the contact addresses
>we had on file. Organizations were advised that unless we heard from
>them by January 1, 2006, they would be dropped from our contact list.
>Any organization that has ceased to receive material from the Planning
>Department simply failed to re-register with us.
>
>They may re-register at any time by contacting Wade Griffin at
>wade.griffin at durhamnc.gov with the required information.
>
>Frank Duke, AICP
>City-County Planning Director
>
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>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:14:25 -0400
>From: "pat carstensen" <pats1717 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: INC NEWS - notifications from planning department
>To: inc-list at durhaminc.org
>Cc: ed.harrison at mindspring.com
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>Our neighborhood found out Friday (via notices in paper) about 2 items
>that
>affect the neighborhood and are going to Planning Commission tonight.
>On
>one of them, our neighborhood (and lots of others) were notified last
>year
>about a request for a change in planning map, but we (and most of the
>others) got no notice this time.
>
>We are wondering if other neighborhoods have had experiences like this
>or
>this is just some kind of summer fluke.
>
>Thanks, pat
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