[Durham INC] Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011

[Tom Miller]

Attached find our issue-packed agenda!  

 

You folks have got your blood up! That's good!

 

Everyone please attend this meeting!  We meet at First Presbyterian Church
on Main Street, downtown.  Park in the back.

 

If I left something off, I'm sorry!

 

If you volunteered to bring refreshments, please bring 'em!

 

See you tomorrow,

 

Tom Miller

 

See January minutes below:

 

January Delegate Meeting

First Presbyterian Church

January 25, 2011

Attending the meeting were:

Delegates and Alternates

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 - Eric Heidt, Peter Katz

Old West Durham - Brett Walters

Parkwood - Mike Brooks 

Watts Hospital Hillandale - Tom Miller

Woodcroft - Scott Carter

Visitors

Darius Little - Organizing Chadsford subdivision

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.

.       Triangle Connector to I-85 (formerly East End Connector)

.       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.
Closing streets closes neighborhood pathways - just because there are few
cars doesn't mean that the street has no transportation uses.  Where the
church wants to put a day care center is not seen as friendly to the
neighborhood.

.      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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