[Durham INC] Updated January Minutes

[Pat Carstensen]

In preparation to the Delegate meeting next week:


January Delegate
Meeting

First Presbyterian Church

January 25, 2011

 

Attending the meeting
were:

Delegates and Alternates

Chadsford – Darius Little

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen 

Duke Park – Ian Kipp, Bill Anderson

Fairfield – Melissa Rooney

Golden Belt Neighborhood Association – DeDreana Freeman,
John Martin 

Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias

Morehead – Christina Fish

Northgate Park – Mike Shiflett

Old East Durham – Chloe’ Palenchar, Camryn Smith

Old Farm – David Harris

Old North Durham – Peter Katz

Old West Durham – Eric Heidt, Brett Walters

Parkwood – Mike Brooks 

Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller

Woodcroft – Scott Carter

 

Visitors

Jim Wise – News and Observer

Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS

Rukea Womack – City of Durham, Parks and Recreation

 

 

 

Minutes

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

 

David Harris reported on the work on the Nominating
Committee.  Mike Shiflett moved and
David Harris seconded that we close the nominations, and the following officers were elected:

Chair                                    Tom
Miller, from Watts Hospital Hillandale 

Vice-Chair                         Scott
Carter, from Woodcroft

Secretary                         Pat
Cartensen, from Cross Counties

Treasurer                         Peter
Katz, from Old North Durham

Board member            Brett
Walters (Old West Durham), Mike Brooks (Parkwood)

Editor/ Communications              Ian
Kipp (Duke Park)

 

Membership:  It being the beginning of the year,
dues are due ($25, but some neighborhoods give more).  Neighborhoods are also asked to fill out the neighborhood
profile form, and include by-laws; for one thing, it is helpful to new
neighborhoods to see a variety of possible structures and looking at the
information in these profiles will help. 
We formed a committee to organize a dues-letter and generally work on
membership; Scott, Mike and Bill will be on the committee.

 

The Transportation Committee reported that their full report
went out on the list-serve.  There are
lots of transportation projects going on, in the works, or under discussion:

·      
Alston Avenue widening to start in 2014; the committee is working on a
resolution on this.

·      
East End Connector (or Triangle Connector to I-85) is progressing

·      
Hope Valley Road widening near Woodcroft

·      
751 paving needing some good weather

·      
More grade-separation of rail traffic

·      
Putting Main Street “on a diet” when it is repaved to make room for
bikes, and the possibilities of diets on other roads

·      
The neck-downs on Club Boulevard in Watts Hospital Hillandale which
calm traffic but impede bikes

·      
Preserving Norfolk-Southern right of way for trails

·      
Magnum /Markham barriers being discussed at Old North Durham
neighborhood meeting

·      
Bids being let soon for the American Tobacco Trail bridge over I-40

·      
NIS and TTA are looking for input on bus service

We also discussed mechanisms for sharing transportation
expertise, and will have transportation panel at March delegate meeting.

 

Neighborhood (and
other) reports:

·     
Neighborhoods in Chapel Hill are looking at
setting up an umbrella organization, especially looking a development and
planning issues

·     
On the Durham Rescue Mission re-zoning,
neighborhoods in the area are concerned about tearing down 9 houses and
generally going away from the Hope VI hopes.  Endangered Durham blog is giving good coverage.

·     
Old West Durham reported on developments with
Grey Stone Baptist.  City Council denied a request by OWD to defer a
vote and instead voted to close Warner Street so that the Grey Stone Baptist
Church could move along with their construction project (2 historic mill houses
have since been torn down that were located on Warner Street).  With the
decision to close the street, the City Council significantly weakened the visionary
zoning plan for the Ninth Street area that the same body recently adopted; a
plan whose aim is to maintain and promote pedestrian-friendly,
community-oriented development projects in the Ninth Street area.  

·     
The city is having a workshop on January 29th
at the Holton Center for neighborhood watch organizations.  If your neighborhood doesn’t have a
neighborhood watch, now is a good time to start one.

·     
Mike Shiflett reported on a re-zoning on East
Club for a storage facility.  There
are lots of issues with the plans. 
The developers were having trouble finding folks in the neighborhood to
meet with (this is a good time to make sure the contact info the Planning
Department has is accurate for your neighborhood).

·     
Ninth Street is a Big Experiment in “form-based
zoning” (60 pages of regulations on design instead of uses).  John Schelp and others are working on
comments.  As the code becomes more
abstract, there are questions on how accessible it is to regular citizens (and
even to developers without planners showing them where to push the rules?)

·     
There will be law seminar for homeowners associations
at the end of February.

·     
NCSSM is making another try at breaking the
world record in food collected. 
The target is 545,000 pounds. 
More info: http://www.ncssm.edu/fooddrive/?page_id=2
 

 

 

 

 




 		 	   		  
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