[Durham INC] Judge upholds Duke’s original map change of Jordan Lake watershed

[Pat Carstensen]

It is scary that instead of using science and laws, we make decisions based on who might cost us the most because they have the funds to sue and sue and sue.   Some days it feels like Durham is perilously close to crony capitalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism), which is ugly whether it is in Russia, Argentina, or the SE USA.

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:43:13 -0800
From: mmr121570 at yahoo.com
To: inc-list at rtpnet.org; durhamenviro at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Durham INC] Judge upholds Duke’s original map change of Jordan Lake watershed

http://www.indyweekblogs.com/triangulator/2009/12/16/judge-upholds-dukes-original-map-change-of-jordan-lake-watershed/

 

 

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/12/14/daily44.html

See the news articles above regarding the outcome of the developers' suit against Durham county today. In a nutshell, the judge upheld Frank Duke's decision regarding the watershed changes pertaining to the SDD property (where the 751 Assemblage mini-city is proposed to be built), but made no decisions altering the county's resulting vote to rezone the rest of the watershed 'arc' on Oct 12 (when a now valid protest petition was deemed invalid). 

Thus, the protest petition lawsuit is still in swing. 

It would have been nice for the judicial system to have handled this case before the county's rezoning vote on Oct 12, and certainly before the Dec 11 deadline for the citizens' appeal of the county's
 Oct 12 rezoning decision (the protest petition lawsuit), as the judge's decision could certainly have changed the county's handling of the case, as well as the citizen's response (i.e. the protest petition lawsuit) to the county's questionable actions.

Once again it seems the citizen's are the ones hard-done by.

I hope that the city of Durham thinks long and hard about whether or not to rezone SDD's land from rural to suburban (which is necessary to enable the construction of the 751 Assemblage mini-city).

Sincerely disheartened,
Melissa (Rooney)




 		 	   		  
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