INC NEWS - [dukepark] Re: map or definitions for Durham neighborhoods?

[Mike - Hotmail]

This is a good map!

But I believe that there have been questions in the past (and conflicting 
maps) regarding the northern boundaries of Duke Park up to West Club Blvd.

For years,  Cheryl and I have been delivering Northgate Park newsletters to 
those homes along both the north and south sides of West Club between the 85 
bridge and Duke Street.

We continue to do so because we've understood that the boundaries of NPNA 
were established long before 85 was built and that these homes were 
considered all part of the larger Northgate Park neighborhood.

At one time,  I've also heard that some residents of Trinity Park (and 
homeowners in these homes) believed that they belonged inside the boundaries 
of it's neighborhood!

Several years back when a number of PAC 2 people were asked to participate 
in helping define the "Pearl Mill neighborhood" which included areas around 
the southern tributary of Ellerbe Creek,  some 'outsiders' referred to this 
area as no-mans land when referring to some of the blocks along Green and 
Know Streets.

Many of us felt that it was an insensitive label and pushed for the moniker 
Pearl Mill area which Jim Wise verified it as such.

Regardless,  this 'area' needn't be either categorized or labeled by anyone 
else except by those that live in that area.

If it is determined that they are or are not in one neighborhoods 'official' 
boundaries but want to be served by another or their own,  I believe that 
they ought to serve their own best interests and organize themselves to make 
that decision, with the rest of us offering support and encouragement.

Whether it means that we all gather together for an initial meeting (or 
series of them) remains to be seen.

But it's be nice to have this issue finally resolved!

mike shiflett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph H. Vilas" <jhvilas at gmail.com>
To: <dukepark at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:38 PM
Subject: [dukepark] Re: map or definitions for Durham neighborhoods?


> Folks,
>
> Thanks.  What Barry pointed out:
>
>     http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/planning/neighborhood_org.cfm
>
> was what I was looking for, except I never found it when I was looking
> there.  :) Unfortunately, it's pretty useless in its present state.  I
> hate PDFs.
>
> Later I found this:
>
>     http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/gis/distribution_policy.cfm
>
> which contains an entry for "Neighborhood Associations".  The city is
> charging for that dataset and chooses not to make it available through
> the new GoMAPS public access GIS interface.  I choose not to buy it.
> I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway, as I don't really have the
> facilities to deal with this kind of stuff.
>
> So, from Barry's description, I made this:
>
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=36.010992,-78.894539&spn=0.017913,0.029182&z=15&om=1&msid=107108673788825953136.000001134f797ec3acc25
>
> If that extremely long URL doesn't wrap correctly for you, try
>
>     http://tinyurl.com/32ve2m
>
> It's tweakable.
>
> I also chopped out a piece of the city's PDF at a reasonable level of
> magnification, and added some stuff.  Maybe this will help people find
> the right area on the city's PDF:
>
>     http://jhv.blogs.com/photos/stuff/dukepark.jpg
>
> By the way, the tongue of purple crosshatching that extends into Duke
> Park is designated "Historic Preservation Society of Durham."  I
> didn't put that in my additional keys, because there was too much data
> in there before I started anyway.  In fact, I'm not even sure why I
> did any of this at all.  :)
>
>
> Joe
> Glendale-Markham Cultural Coalition
>
> -- 
> Joseph H. Vilas
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