INC NEWS - Need for Webpages to educate Durham residents wrtrezoning/development process

[Mike - Hotmail]

This is probably a good issue to bring up at the next INC meeting with both 
David Harris (President) and Ken Gasch (President Elect) as this probably 
would take several months to tackle.

Criagie Sanders has been instrumental in representing INC at many of the 
Planning meetings along with others, but I believe he has a unique 
perspective (because he's sat on both sides of this issue) over the past 
several years.

I'm not sure if he could do it alone but maybe if more people who are 
interested (but not necessarily all INC folks) can help,  maybe he'd be 
willing to coordinate it?

It might be a good idea to see if other members of organizations like the 
Partners Against Crime(I to V) might like to participate?

It'd be worthwhile to ask the memberships of the Friends of Durham, Peoples 
Alliance and the Committee to have opportunities to contribute making it an 
inclusive and in the end have a much better 'product' as they're also very 
interested in representing their constituents in matters like these.




mike shiflett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Rooney" <mmr121570 at yahoo.com>
To: <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:28 PM
Subject: INC NEWS - Need for Webpages to educate Durham residents 
wrtrezoning/development process


> Hello again. I have been discussing with the Joint
> City County Planning Commission the need to educate
> and encourage Durham residents'/neighbors' involvement
> in the planning process. A specific suggestion I made
> was for a 'planning for dummies' type webpage on the
> planning department section of the city website,
> clearly showing the typical, chronological time-line
> of all meetings/departments/boards/committees involved
> from start to finish (rezoning to development to
> completion of construction).
>
> City Councilman and 2006 INC president, Mike Woodard,
> suggested that this would be a good initiative for the
> INC.
>
> I personally, do not have the time to commit to this
> type of thing, aside from emailing
> suggestions/comments/reviews/etc. from home. I am
> already overextended with my neighborhood board of
> directors and 2 neighborhood committees, not to
> mention my increasing involvement with South Durham
> development issues. (I hope that things will calm down
> eventually in my neck of the woods, so that I can
> devote more to INC initiatives in the future (touch
> wood).
>
> At any rate, please forgive my rambling and read the
> emails below. If anyone else thinks this is a good
> idea for INC, can we please discuss it at the May INC
> (or a future) meeting?
>
> Thanks!
> Melissa
>
> Melissa Rooney
> Fairfield INC Rep
>
>
>
> ________________
>
> Melissa:
>
> I've had this website bookmarked for sometime.
> However, if you click around it, you will see that it
> is seriously out of date...approximately two years out
> of date.
>
> Rather than have the Planning Department link to this,
> I think this would be a great task for INC to take on
> and maintain.
>
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
> Mike Woodard
> Durham City Council
> Email: mike.woodard at durhamnc.gov
> Phone: 919.560.4396, x276
> Web Site: www.durhamnc.gov
>
> E-mail correspondence to and from this sender may be
> subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and
> may be disclosed to third parties.
>
> From: Melissa Rooney [mailto:mmr121570 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thu 5/3/2007 2:43 PM
> To: Cole-McFadden, Cora; Catotti, Diane;
> bmheron at durhamcountync.gov; Woodard, Mike;
> ereckhow at aol.com
> Subject: swdurham.org -- webpages dealing with
> rezoning/development process on the web :)
>
> Hi again. I found the following websites which have
> some valuable information for citizens about the
> rezoning/development process. Perhaps you can put a
> link to this on the planning page...? If there is
> already a link, I didn't see it, so maybe it could be
> made more prominent.
>
> http://www.swdurham.org/process/p-comm.html
>
> http://www.swdurham.org/
>
> Just thought I'd pass this info on to you, in case you
> weren't already aware of these websites.
>
> Cheers,
> Melissa
>
>
>
>
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