[Durham INC] Corrected Minutes

[Pat Carstensen]

I am told the walking trail has an official name.  See corrected minutes.



October Delegate
Meeting

First Presbyterian Church

October 26, 2010

 

Attending the meeting
were:

Delegates and Alternates

Colony Park – Don Lebkes

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen 

Duke Park – Ian Kipp, Bill Anderson

Falconbridge – Rosemarie Kitchin

Golden Belt Neighborhood Association – DeDreana Freeman 

Hope Valley Farms – Nancy Cox (non-voting)

Northgate Park – Mike Shiflett

Old East Durham / Uplift East Durham – Chloe’ Palenchar

Old Farm – David Harris

Old North Durham – Peter Katz

Old West Durham – Karen Verhaeghe, Brett Walters

Parkwood – Mike Brooks 

Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller, Mike Woodard

West Cornwallis Neighborhood Association – Bob Chapman

Woodcroft – Scott Carter

 

Visitors

Darius Little – Organizing Chadsford subdivision

Jim Wise – News and Observer

Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS

Steve Mihaich – Durham Police

 

Minutes

Tom Miller opened the meeting, and delegates and visitors
introduced themselves.  David
Harris moved and Rosemarie Kitchin seconded to approve the minutes, which we
did by voice vote.

 

David Harris moved and Rosemarie Kitchin seconded to approve
the following resolution on street
bonds, which we did by voice vote, with Watts Hospital Hillandale
abstaining.  We will send a copy to
the list-serve for sharing among neighborhoods.  Old North Durham continues to have concerns about speeding
on better streets.  Several
neighborhoods would like to see line items in the budget to make sure this is
the last time we do bonds to take care of maintenance.

 






WHEREAS the streets in the
city of Durham are in need of repair and maintenance on city streets has been
neglected and deferred for too long; and

WHEREAS the poor condition
of the streets impede the city’s renaissance and impact negatively on the
community’s image; and

WHEREAS current economic
conditions and the general financial health of the city favor incurring modest
debt to pay for long needed repairs;

WHEREAS the city
government has expressed its resolution to address future street repair needs
on a reasonable schedule from annual revenues;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through its delegates duly
assembled that the citizens of Durham should support the proposed street repair
bonds by voting “yes” in the referendum on the November 2, 2010 ballot.



 

We then passed the following (amended) resolution on a State-wide Moratorium of Digital Billboards
unanimously by voice vote.



WHEREAS the U.S. Department of
Transportation's Federal Highway Administration commissioned a report, The
Possible Effects of Commercial Electronic Variable Message Signs (CEVMS)
on Driving Safety – Phase 1, in an effort to better understand the
relationship between CEVMS exposure and crash rates, 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through its delegates duly assembled that:

1)the InterNeighborhood Council urges the
General Assembly of North Carolina to enact laws which impose a statewide
moratorium on the erection of digital billboards until such time as they are
determined to be no distraction to motorists and no threat to traffic safety;
and

2)the laws so enacted should resemble in
substantial measure House Bill H – 2011 as it was introduced in the 2009
Session of the General Assembly;

3)the laws so enacted should in no way
interfere with the authority of the City and County of Durham to regulate and
prohibit billboards as those jurisdiction currently do.



 

Then we passed the following resolution on Community Association Managers with
abstentions by Trinity Park and Watts Hospital Hillandale.  There was quite a bit of discussion of
the costs.

 






WHEREAS increasingly new neighborhoods and
residential development of every sort are made subject to a regime of
restrictive covenants which provide for private government in the form of a
mandatory community association; and

WHEREAS these community associations are
charged with the power to make and enforce rules substantially affecting the
quality of life in the neighborhood and the may also levy dues and assessments
and spend the same for the welfare of the neighborhood; and

WHEREAS  these same associations must
employ professional managers to assist and guide the association government in
the execution of its lawful powers; and

WHEREAS the managers employed are often
entrusted with substantial sums of money belonging to association members; and

WHEREAS the security and welfare of
community associations, their members, and their property are dependent upon
the integrity and competence of professional managers; and

WHEREAS older neighborhoods without
professional managers are affected by the security and welfare of their
neighboring community associations;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through its delegates duly assembled that:

1)the InterNeighborhood Council urges the
General Assembly of North Carolina to enact laws which require the licensure of
professional community association managers and create minimum standards for
their professional competence; and

2)the laws so enacted should resemble in
substantial measure House Bill H – 762 as it was introduced in the 2009 Session
of the General Assembly.



 

On liquor permits,
crime and neighborhoods, there was a running gun battle at a new place on
Hillandale and two other establishments with significant neighborhood
concerns.  One of the best levers
the community has against establishments like this is their license to sell
liquor, but that depends on the ABC Board acting.  They do apparently levy some significant fines, but have
only revoked two licenses across the whole state in the last two years.  The Police Department has met with the
ABC folks to review reports of incidents at the 3 places, and on confident that
the board is going to take them seriously.  Tom will ask someone from the ABC enforcement to come to a
future INC meeting to talk about what they do.

 

Delegates were asked to encourage statements of support from
their neighborhoods on the Pauli Murray
Marker.  In the future, we may
want to show support for restoring the Fitzgerald house.

 

There are a number of ways that INC could help neighborhood newsletters, in terms of
both advertising and content, and possibly printing.  We could also organize programs so experienced newsletter
editors can share tips with less-experienced ones.  A communications committee, consisting of Darius, Colin,
Bill and Kevin will look into what can be done.

 

The Nominating
Committee is working.  If they
ask you to serve, please say “yes.” The Transportation
Committee will send out a report to the list-serve.

 

There were a number of neighborhood reports.

·     
Trinity
Park is facing a new proposal for a hotel on the site of McPherson
Hospital; the new proposal is even bigger than the last one.  This time they are not trusting the
Planning Department.

·     
For Old
West Durham, there was a lot of participation in developing the particulars
on the Ninth Street Plan, and now the Planning Department seems to be helping
developers build everything bigger than envisioned; especially disappointing is
that comments have to be in before the final version is available.  Also the plans for a church expansion
would mean the closing of part of Warner Street.

·     
Parkwood
has been working with Public Works on the rebuilding of Revere Road, which was
built by a developer, started falling apart when the first car drove on it, and
now needs to be dug out to 18-24 inches. 
Every property owner will be able to get home every night and there will
be an interactive website to show closures, alternate routes, and so on.

·     
David Harris of Old Farm mentioned citizen concern about loss of programming, such
as summer camps, if West Point on the Eno is taken over by the state, but they
are working on it.

·     
East
Durham had an awesome home tour – some houses had 40-50 visitors.

·     
The Third
Fork Creek Trail is now extended from Woodcroft Parkway to South Roxboro
and on to the Martin Luther King Junior Parkway.  When it is complete in a
few months it will extend from Southern Boundaries Park to Garrett Road Park.

·     
Golden
Belt is having a lot of meetings on the Durham Rescue Mission
re-zoning.  The Alston Road
widening is also a concern.  

 

The next meeting
will be on November 30th (the 5th Tuesday).  We will decide then on December
meetings.

 

The meeting was adjourned.




 		 	   		  
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