INC NEWS - Scott King Development: please help South Durham in their opposition

Tue Jan 30 15:12:37 EST 2007

Thanks for asking for that clarification, Deb.

Scott Mill Road (Z05-35): 44.336 acre site located on
the south side of Scott King Road, East of Herndon
Road, and west of Grandale Drive. For more
information, see the bottom of the following webpage:
http://www.durhamcountync.gov/departments/bocc/Agendas/Agenda_Attachments/Upcoming_Land_Use_Items.html

Thanks so much for your concern.
Melissa

Melissa Rooney
Fairfield INC Rep
Fairfield Communications
Fairfield Community Watch

--- Deb Christie <dchristie1 at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Melissa -
> 
> I need to know exactly where this development is
> proposed.  This e-mail is 
> very long and I could not easily identify the
> location.  Thanks for sending.
> 
> Deb Christie
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Melissa Rooney" <mmr121570 at yahoo.com>
> To: <inc-list at rtpnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:14 PM
> Subject: INC NEWS - Scott King Development: please
> help South Durham in 
> their opposition
> 
> 
> > Hi everybody. I got this via email today and my
> > neighborhood is deeply concerned about the Scott
> King
> > project, the way the developer has lacked
> > consideration and in fact, misrepresented it, to
> the
> > planning department, and the possibility that this
> > area may end up being completely destroyed (as far
> as
> > the public good is concerned) to put money in the
> > pockets of developers and politicians.
> >
> > Please Read the information below and assist us by
> > writing the County board of commissioners and
> asking
> > them to vote for Denial of the proposed Scott King
> > Rezoning.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Melissa Rooney
> >
> > Fairfield INC rep
> > mmr121570 at yahoo.com
> >
> >
> > Reeves Young <rcyoung4 at verizon. net> wrote:
> >
> >    Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:28:42 -0800 (PST)
> >    From: Reeves Young <rcyoung4 at verizon. net>
> >    Subject: Scott Mill Rezoning (Z05-35)
> >    To: Wendy Jacobs <geewen at nc.rr. com>
> >
> >    THE PROJECT--Scott Mill is a proposed  mass
> graded
> > subdivision of single family homes, currently
> zoned
> > "rural" on Scott King Road in southern Durham
> County.
> > The entire 44 acre project is located within the
> > Northeast Creek Bottomland Natural Resource
> Inventory
> > Site, an area identified as home to rare plant and
> > animal species and is surrounded by Army Corps of
> > Engineers land and NC Gameland. The land is
> bisected
> > east to west by double cross country high voltage
> > power lines and diagonally by a natural gas line.
> The
> > proposed number of homes is 71 with a minimum lot
> size
> > of 9000 sq. ft. with the exception of 7 lots at
> 7500
> > sq. ft. Interior rear lots will be a minimum of 8
> > feet.
> >
> >    THE HISTORY--Beginning in January, 2006, the
> > applicant, Bill Ripley (most notably of Indigo
> Corners
> > at Mt. Moriah Rd. and Chapel Hill Blvd.), has been
> > uncooperative with the neighbors as well as with
> the
> > Planning Commission who granted the maximum number
> of
> > deferrals before voting UNANIMOUSLY FOR DENIAL. As
> > instructed by the Board of County Commissioners in
> > June, 2006 (who expected to see major changes), we
> > negotiated in a third party, mediated setting and
> > thought we had secured a plan we could if not
> heartily
> > endorse, could live with. On August, 2006 the BOCC
> > deferred the vote to give the Planning Dept. a
> chance
> > to scrutinize the plan submitted shortly before
> the
> > meeting. Two days before the September, 2006 BOCC
> > meeting, Bill Ripley substituted the original,
> > virtually blank, etch-a-sketch plan for the one we
> > agreed upon at mediation. The committed elements
> did
> > not match the plan. The plan has been in the
> Planning
> > Department since September and has recently been
> sent
> > forward to the BOCC with the recommendation for
> > DENIAL. The denial is based in part on technical
> > inconsistencies that Bill Ripley has refused to
> > correct, but will have a huge, adverse impact on
> what
> > we agreed upon if approved.
> >
> >    OUR OPPOSITION-- The Army Crops of Engineers
> > requested a 100 foot buffer adjacent to their land
> to
> > mitigate runoff in this EPA declared impaired
> > watershed and to protect homeowners from hunters.
> We
> > agreed to an undisturbed 70 foot tapering buffer
> on
> > the eastern boundary and the 6+ acres south of the
> > power lines as "undisturbed open space" with a 6
> foot
> > wide permeable trail. The discussed exception
> would be
> > disturbance for a possible city/county mandated
> sewer
> > uplift pump station and infrastructure. The
> current
> > committed elements and development plan have
> > referenced these areas as "homeowners' common
> area",
> > (the original, unprotected designation) with
> > unspecified infrastructure allowed. A tot lot
> and/or
> > pocket park would be located in these areas
> adjacent
> > to gameland and in violation of our mediated
> > agreement. We agreed to a 15 foot minimum
> separation
> > between houses while the current plan reflects the
> > original 6 foot separation between houses. We
> agreed
> > to a landscaped berm along Scott King Road and now
> > have the original landscaped strip, with our
> request
> > for opacity figures and dimensions ignored. We
> asked
> > for restricted work hours for work creating
> off-site
> > noise and have a committed element that is written
> in
> > unenforceable language. They refused our request
> that
> > the project not be mass graded since the land has
> a
> > gentle topography. They have committed to grading
> on a
> > lot by lot basis on the untimbered eastern 7 +/-
> aces,
> > however we have little confidence that this will
> be
> > honored.
> >
> >    HOW TO HELP--Please contact our County
> > Commissioners by phone or email in earnest, the
> week
> > of February 5th asking that they uphold the
> unanimous
> > vote of denial by the Planning Commission as well
> as
> > the recommendation for denial by the Planning
> Dept.
> > and vote NO to the proposed Scott Mill rezoning.
> Never
> > has development occurred within an inventory site!
> > This environmentally sensitive land needs a
> thoughtful
> > and careful approach, not  heavy handed, land
> gutting
> > development as usual. Please forward this to your
> > neighbors. We need help--Durham needs quality,
> > innovative development and developers willing to
> work
> > honestly and cooperatively with the community.
> Please
> > come to the County Commissioners meeting on the
> second
> > floor of the Old Courthouse at 200 E. Main St. on
> > February 12th at 7:00PM.
> >
> >    County Commissioner Contact Information:
> >
> >    Ellen Reckhow
> >    ereckhow at aol. com or ereckhow at durhamcoun
> tync.gov
> >    Telephone: (919) 383-3883
> >
> >    Becky Heron
> >    bmheron at nc.rr. com or bmheron at durhamcount
> ync.gov
> >    Telephone: (919) 489-4402
> >
> >    Lewis Cheek
> >    lcheek at durhamcounty nc.gov
> 
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