[Durham INC] Coming April to the Planning Commission: Billboards and 751 Assemblage (Jordan Lake Watershed Saga)

[Melissa Rooney]

This Just In:
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>>>Expect to see 751 Assemblage on the Planning Commission agenda April 13. 
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>>>Also on the agenda: Nonconforming Off-Premise Signs (aka billboards).

(Look for a confirmation on the date in the near future.)

With both items on the PC agenda, we should have a full house (hopefully). I think most Durham citizens feel the same about both of these cases, so please plan to attend the PC meeting on April 13 and show/voice your concerns for two cases for the price of one.

(Note: the 751 Assemblage is the development for which developers recently sued Durham, resulting in Judge Manning's decision to require that the Jordan Lake watershed protected area be retracted  to allow for this development (regardless of public hearings and the BOCC vote). Now that the watershed has been rezoned, the developers need to get the land rezoned from rural residential to suburban commercial in order to build the big shopping and residential (apartments/townhomes) that are planned for that previously protected area. At the very least, we need to demand that TRUE AFFORDABLE housing be built there -- not $200-300,000 townhomes -- and possibly services for low-income, jobless, and homeless citizens. But of course South Durham residents (and most of Durham from what I saw at the last public hearing) would prefer that this land be left as rural residential in order to reduce the detrimental impact of currently permitted development practices on
 Jordan Lake, as well as to encourage filling the plethora of (increasing) vacant retail spaces throughout South Durham -- see attached powerpoint file which was created in April, 2009).

Thanks, as always, for caring enough to donate your time to these important decisions:)

Melissa Rooney


      
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