[Durham INC] List of neighborhoods supporting Durham's successful billboard ban; Last chance to send email...

[Erin Kennedy]

Please add Colonial Village to the list as well.  We are drafting an email
as well.
Thanks,
Erin Kennedy
CVNA Secretary

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, John Schelp <bwatu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> folks,
>
> Several neighborhood and community associations support Durham's current
> ban on billboards. Support is strong across all segments of the community.
>
> (See list of supporting neighborhoods below; along with DCVB poll results.)
>
> Happily, other neighborhood boards are meeting to vote to join in support
> of the current billboard ban. Please let us know if we need to add your
> neighborhood group to the list.
>
> More than 175 emails of support have been sent to officials over the past
> four days! (One has come in for electronic billboards.) Many many thanks to
> one and all.
>
> If you haven't already, kindly send a short, positive note asking
> officials: "please do not tinker with our successful sign ordinance."
>
> Send email tonight/early tomorrow to Council at DurhamNC.Gov,
> commissioners at durhamcountync.gov, DurhamPlanningCommission at durhamnc.gov
>
> with much appreciation,
> John
>
> ****
>
> Working list of supporting neighborhoods
>
> * Burch Avenue
>
> * Duke Park
>
> * Lakewood Park
>
> * Long Meadow
>
> * Morehead Hill
>
> * New East Durham
>
> * Northgate Park
>
> * Old Farm
>
> * Old West Durham
>
> * Trinity Heights
>
> * Trinity Park
>
> * Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
>
> * Uplift East Durham
>
> * Walltown
>
> * Watts-Hospital Hillandale
>
> * West End
>
> * InterNeighborhood Council
>
> ****
>
> Poll: Residents support current billboard ordinance
> Herald-Sun, 3 October 2009
>
> A poll commissioned by the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau finds
> overwhelming support for the billboard ordinance that now exists.
>
> Support for the existing ordinance was nearly 9-to-1 overall, with the
> ratio of strongly agree to strongly disagree at 8.4-to-1. In all, 72 percent
> of residents supported the existing ordinance, 20 percent were undecided and
> 8 percent did not support the current ordinance.
>
> In recent months, Fairway Outdoor Advertising has lobbied the city to
> loosen its billboard restrictions, in part to allow electronic billboards.
>
> [See letters from the community supporting Durham's current billboard ban
> here... http://supportdurhambillboardban.com/]
>
> Reyn Bowman, president and CEO of the Durham Convention and Visitors
> Bureau, said he was surprised by the results. Forty percent of the
> population, he noted, did not even live here when the ordinance was passed.
>
> Newcomers who have lived here two years or fewer supported the ordinance by
> a ratio of 4.5-to-1 while those here three to five years were 9-to-1 in
> favor, and those here six to 10 years in favor by 20-to-1.
>
> Residents of 11 to 20 years supported the ordinance by 14-to-1 and those
> living in Durham more than 21 years showed support by a margin of 8-to-1.
>
> The general manager with Fairway Outdoor Advertising, which has been a
> proponent of changing the ordinance, was on vacation and unavailable for
> comment, according to a company employee.
>
> Another interesting finding of the poll, Bowman said, is that there was no
> correlation between respondents' pride in Durham and their position on the
> billboard ordinance.
>
> Residents supported the existing ordinance regardless of their level of
> pride in or image of Durham.
>
> Even those undecided about either supported the existing ordinance.
>
> Support for the existing ordinance was consistent across gender with males
> and females, 72.4 percent and 71.4 percent, in favor respectively.
>
> Blacks supported the existing ordinance 11-to1, whites by 10-to-1, Asians
> by 4-to-1, and Hispanics by 5.5-to-1.
>
> The poll was taken in August after several months of discussion about a
> possible proposal to change the ordinance to permit moving some billboards
> and upgrading them to digital.
>
> ****
>
>
>
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