INC NEWS - Arrowhead REZONING - IMPORTANT

[Emily Weinstein]

Hello all.....
I urge you to support the proposed rezoning under
consideration for our neighbors, town and environment.........

Dear Neighbors,
Please write the members of the Planning Commission at
durhamplanningcommission at durhamnc.gov (this will go to all
14 of the Planning Commission members -- please note
there’s no period after durham in the e-mail address).
Reference zoning case # Z06-54 (Arrowhead).
Second, please come to the public hearing before the
Planning Commission tomorrow night, Tuesday, Nov 14th, at
5:30 p.m. in City Council chambers. Our agenda item may not
appear until as late as 6:30 p.m., but we will try to be
more specific if we can.
Rezoning will protect our area from development that is too
intense to be suitable, just as the Worman/Quail Ridge
project has proved to be a disaster for 91 acres in the
middle of the neighborhood. This developer has won approval
to design cookie-cutter lots that have no regard for the
existing well water supply, stream buffers, steep slopes,
and storm water runoff, and will add hundreds of cars on
Cornwallis and Erwin roads every day.
Rezoning our neighborhood will protect us from the worst of
this kind of development, while allowing sensible
development to proceed for those who wish to sell their
land.
Please ask the Planning Commission to recommend rezoning
Arrowhead from RS-20 (half-acre) zoning to RR (two-acre)
zoning.
Thank you,
Happy Sayre-McCord

see Kim's email, below, for more details:

--- "Gotwals, Kimberly B." <KIMBERLY.B.GOTWALS at saic.com>
wrote:


> All -
>
> We had a good meeting Thursday night at Solterra with
> Steve Medlin, from the
> Durham Planning Dept.  Basically the gist of his
> information:
>
>
>
> The County Commissioners requested the rezoning from
> RS-20 to RR to bring
> the area into compliance with the 2030 Comprehensive
> Plan, which placed the
> area in a Rural Tier.  The Comp Plan provides in Policy
> 2.3.1a  Rural Tier
> Development Focus.  Ensure that new development promotes
> agricultural uses
> and single-family residential development on large lots
> to minimize demands
> for public infrastructure.  Commercial areas shall be
> small scale and
> neighborhood oriented.  Please note that the
> Comprehensive Plan is a
> guideline for directing responsible growth in Durham; it
> does not carry the
> same legal weight as the Unified Development Ordinance,
> Durham's zoning and
> development regulations.  That's why the zoning
> designation for our area
> would have to be legally changed to match the intent of
> the Comprehensive
> Plan.  Steve pointed out that it is possible to have
> zoning that does not
> "match".  Our commissioners however have stated their
> intent to get the
> zoning in line with the Comp Plan.
>
>
>
> Steve pointed out that limited commercial development is
> allowed in a Rural
> Tier, but it must be a small, neighborhood-oriented
> venture.  We pointed out
> that the (alas, former) Hollow Rock Country Store is a
> good example of a
> limited, small commercial development.


Begin forwarded message:

> Dear Neighbors,
> I urge you to support the proposed rezoning under
> consideration for our neighborhood.
> Please write the members of the Planning Commission at
> durhamplanningcommission at durhamnc.gov (this will go to all
> 14 of the Planning Commission members -- please note
> there’s no period after durham in the e-mail address).
> Reference zoning case # Z06-54 (Arrowhead).
> Second, please come to the public hearing before the
> Planning Commission tomorrow night, Tuesday, Nov 14th, at
> 5:30 p.m. in City Council chambers. Our agenda item may not
> appear until as late as 6:30 p.m., but we will try to be
> more specific if we can.
> Rezoning will protect our area from development that is too
> intense to be suitable, just as the Worman/Quail Ridge
> project has proved to be a disaster for 91 acres in the
> middle of the neighborhood. This developer has won approval
> to design cookie-cutter lots that have no regard for the
> existing well water supply, stream buffers, steep slopes,
> and storm water runoff, and will add hundreds of cars on
> Cornwallis and Erwin roads every day.
> Rezoning our neighborhood will protect us from the worst of
> this kind of development, while allowing sensible
> development to proceed for those who wish to sell their
> land.
> Please ask the Planning Commission to recommend rezoning
> Arrowhead from RS-20 (half-acre) zoning to RR (two-acre)
> zoning.
> Thank you,
> Happy Sayre-McCord

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