[Durham INC] Resolution against House Bill 150 - Zoning Design Regulations

[Tom Miller]

Dear Neighbors,

 

Attached and below please find the text of a resolution that may shape our
discussion of H150 tomorrow night.  I know that time is short, but if you
are able, please acquaint your governing boards about the resolution and
obtain instructions on how to vote on it.  I forwarded to you a pro-con
presentation of the bill last week and I will send it again in a new e-mail.

 

A Resolution by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham Concerning House
Bill 150, Zoning/Design and Aesthetic Controls, and its Senate Companion Now
Pending Before the North Carolina General Assembly

 

WHEREAS, throughout North Carolina modern zoning ordinances have
increasingly incorporated building design controls as part of regulatory
schemes intended to promote wise growth, preserve local character, and to
protect and enhance neighborhoods; and

 

WHEREAS, in Durham design regulations are used to shape development in
design districts downtown and near future transit facilities as an offset to
development intensification in those districts and design regulations are
also used as a component of neighborhood protection overlay zoning to
preserve neighborhoods at risk from insensitive in-fill development and
expanding non-residential uses; and

 

WHEREAS, said design controls are created by local communities within the
legislative authority long secured to local governments; and

 

WHEREAS, the people living and working in local communities are best
positioned to determine the character and needs of the places where they
live and work and are best able to fashion regulations to shape and sustain
development in those places; and

 

WHEREAS, there is now pending in the General Assembly of North Carolina
House Bill 150 and a similar companion in the Senate designed to strip from
local communities their ability to employ certain design regulations as a
part of their land use regulatory programs; and

 

WHEREAS, said bills, if passed would render ineffective the neighborhood
protection scheme contemplated in Durham's neighborhood protection overlay
zoning ordinance and would undo the regulations already put in place by
means of said ordinance;

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOVED by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through
its delegates assembled that House Bill 150 and similar measures should not
become law and that the North Carolina General Assembly should leave
inviolate the authority of local communities to decide for themselves those
land use regulatory measures best suited to shape development and protect
the public health safety and welfare.

 

This ____ day of _______________, 2013

 

THE INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM

 

By: ________________________________________

John Martin,

President

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