[Durham INC] INC-list Digest, Vol 123, Issue 24

Tue Mar 24 16:56:49 EDT 2015

http://www.wral.com/house-votes-to-eliminate-protest-petitions/14536676/

Myers Sugg
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Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
Box 90120
Durham NC  27708
919-660-8018
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Today's Topics:

   1.  INC Delegates' Meeting Agenda (Philip Azar)
   2.  ZONING PROTEST PETITION ACTION NEEDED RIGHT NOW! (Tom Miller)
   3.  FW:  DRAFT January Minutes (Pat Carstensen)
   4. Re:  INC Delegates' Meeting Agenda (Pat Carstensen)
   5. Re:  [WHHNA-list] ZONING PROTEST PETITION ACTION NEEDED	RIGHT
      NOW! (Mary Lee)

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Hello INC Delegates,

Below is the agenda for our March INC Delegates meeting.  (No surprise, it is almost identical to the agenda for the snowed-out February meeting.)

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 24th, at 7:00pm.  As usual, we will meet at the Neighborhood Improvement Services Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Building #2, Golden Belt Arts Complex, 807 E. Main St.  Any interested citizen is welcome to attend.  Please print out a copy of the agenda and bring it with you.     

If anyone has any requests for last minute additions or changes to the agenda, please let me know.   

Philip Azar, President
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

_______________________

InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
Delegates? Meeting
March 24th, 2015

AGENDA

1)   Welcome and Introductions ? Philip Azar (5 minutes)

2)   Adjustments to Agenda  ? (2 minutes) 

3)   Approval of Minutes ? (3 minutes)

4)   Treasurer?s Report ? Susan Sewell (2 minutes) 

5)   Guest Presentation -- Marissa Moriboy, Durham County Department of Public Health focusing on physical activity in Durham. Marissa may also highlight some aspects of the county?s health assessment survey both in the context of physical activity and Latino populations (which was a focus area within the survey)	(35 Minutes)

6)   Committee Reports (30 minutes)
	a)  Zoning and Development ? (20 Minutes)
		Dolly Fehrenbacher (Cell Tower/UDO) 
		Tom Miller (Resolution. Reprinted below.)
	b)  Hero Awards -- Bill Anderson, Mike Shifflett, Tom Miller, DeDreana Freeman, others (10 minutes)
	c)  Communications -- Pakis Bessias (5 minutes)
	d)  Other

7)   Old Business   

8)   New Business

9)   Neighborhood Reports and Announcements  (As needed)

10)  Adjourn

_____________________

A Resolution by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham Concerning Equal Access to the Legislative Zoning Process

WHEREAS, the North Carolina Bar Association intends to seek legislation during the 2015 session of the North Carolina General Assembly comprehensively rewriting the statutes on city and county zoning; and WHEREAS, contained within the Bar Association?s draft bill are provisions which would take away the rights of citizens who are not owners of property to be rezoned to apply to city and county governments to rezone land on an equal footing with property owners; and WHEREAS, the power to regulate land use is an exercise of the government?s police power and is valid only if it promotes the public health, safety, and welfare, and the zoning governing a particular parcel belongs to the public and is not the property of the landowner; and WEREAS, the rezoning process is a legislative function of local government to which every citizen should have equal access; THEREFORE BE IT RESOVED by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through its delegates assembled that InterNeighborhood Council opposes the legislation sought by the North Carolina Bar Association insofar as it proposes to limit the ability of all citizens to participate in the legislative zoning process on an equal footing without regard to land ownership and calls upon the City and County of Durham and the Durham? legislative delegation to also oppose such legislation.

This ____ day of _______________, 2015.

THE INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM

By: ________________________________________
Philip Azar,
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:39:30 -0400
From: "Tom Miller" <tom-miller1 at nc.rr.com>
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Subject: [Durham INC] ZONING PROTEST PETITION ACTION NEEDED RIGHT NOW!
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Dear Neighbors:

Tomorrow, Monday the 23rd, at 7 p.m., the NC House will vote on the protest petition repeal bill, House Bill 201.  Please e-mail your legislators and tell them to vote against it.  This may be our last chance to stop the bill before it goes to the NC Senate (where we may not expect much support).  

Last Thursday, the bill came up for debate in the House Local Government Committee.  After the sponsors presented the bill, Representative Luebke from Durham moved to amend the bill by taking out the repeal language and inserting instead the compromise language from Senate Bill 285.  This would save the protest petition right, but raise the signing threshold from 5% to 15% and reduce the supermajority vote from 3/4s to 2/3s.  When the amendment came for a voice vote in the committee, it was clear that the "ayes" had won, but the committee chairman, Representative Davis, ruled that the amendment was defeated.  He then refused to recognize Rep. Luebke's request for a "division" or counted vote.  Instead he called for a vote on the un-amended bill which passed.  Although this is very disappointing, it does show that a significant number of house members are interested in a compromise which would save the protest petition right.  

We expect that the amendment will be offered again tomorrow when the bill is debated on the house floor.

Please send a short, polite e-mail to all the members of your town or city's house members asking them to save the protest petition right.  Tell them to vote against House Bill 201.  I suggest that you ask them to support the 5%-to-15%, 3/4s-to-2/3s amendment when it comes up tomorrow. SEND YOUR E-MAIL RIGHT NOW!  We may not get another chance.

Durham area House members:

 <mailto:Paul.Luebke at ncleg.net> Paul.Luebke at ncleg.net; <mailto:Mickey.Michaux at ncleg.net> Mickey.Michaux at ncleg.net; <mailto:Larry.Hall at ncleg.net> Larry.Hall at ncleg.net; <mailto:Graig.Meyer at ncleg.net> Graig.Meyer at ncleg.net; <mailto:Larry.Yarborough at ncleg.net> Larry.Yarborough at ncleg.net; <mailto:Marilyn.Avila at ncleg.net> Marilyn.Avila at ncleg.net; <mailto:Robert.Reives at ncleg.net> Robert.Reives at ncleg.net; <mailto:Verla.Insko at ncleg.net> Verla.Insko at ncleg.net

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD LISTSERVES!

Arguments for the protest petition:

The right to file a protest petition against a rezoning is a time honored right.  Under NC law, if the owners of 5% of the ring of property 100 feet deep surrounding land to be rezoned file a formal 

protest petition, it takes a super majority of 3/4s of the members of the city council to pass the rezoning.  The protest petition right in North Carolina is as old as zoning itself.  The right was part of the 

legislation passed by the General Assembly in 1923 giving cities the right to regulate land use by zoning.  A protest petition right protects a neighbor's investment in his own property and his reasonable expectations in the stability of the regulatory environment.  It protects neighbors and property owners from sudden, capricious, and wrongfully-motivated  zone changes.  When neighbors file a protest petition it is a signal that the proposed rezoning deserves special attention by elected officials.
Relatively few protest petitions are filed and they rarely cause rezonings to be denied.  But protest petitions do often lead to more thoughtful results in zoning cases and better buffering and protections between incompatible uses.  The protest petition right levels the playing field between ordinary citizens trying to protect their homes and powerful developers who can afford attorneys and land planners to advance their interests.  The right to a protest petition was part of model zoning laws promulgated by the US Department of Commerce in the 1920s.  It is part of zoning law all across the country.  Citizens in states bordering North Carolina have the right to file a protest petition.  Why shouldn't we?

Thank you.

Tom Miller

Durham

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Reposting this for the meeting on TUesday

From: pats1717 at hotmail.com
To: inc-list at lists.deltaforce.net
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:32:37 -0500
Subject: [Durham INC] DRAFT January Minutes

As usual, please let me know about any additions or correctionsRegards, pat

January Delegate
Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

NIS Conference
Room, Golden Belt

January 27, 2015

Attending the meeting were:

Neighborhoods

Colony Park ? Don Lebkes

Cross Counties ? Pat Carstensen

Downing Creek ? Dick Ford

Duke Park ? Bill Anderson

Fairfield ? Chris Brown

Long Meadow ? Pakis Bessias

Morehead Hill ? Bruce Mitchell

Northgate Park ? Debra Hawkins

Old Farm ? David Harris

Old North Durham ? Peter Katz

Stage Stop ? Dolly Fehrenbacher

Trinity Park ? Philip Azar

Tuscaloosa-Lakewood ? Susan Sewell 

University Estates ? JoAnn Comis

Watts Hospital Hillandale ? Tom Miller

Woodcroft ? Jose Sandoval

Visitors 

Lynwood D. Best ? City of Durham, NIS

John Killeen ? City of Durham, NIS

Jim Wise ? News and Observer 

Will Wilson ? DOST 

Elise Kohn ? NCNGN 

President Phil Azar opened the meeting and announced that John Martin had heart surgery this week; appreciation and support to John were expressed.  An Outreach Committee report was added to the agenda.

Because of INC?s tabled high-speed internet resolution, we invited Elise Kohn from North Carolina Next Generation Network (http://ncngn.net) to talk about the technology and options.  When she was invited, she didn?t know that the Google announcement would come today.  She has been involved nationally in broadband networks and bridging the digital divide.  There is no physical North Carolina Next Generation Network.  What there is is a coordinated effort of 6 cities and 4 universities in the Triangle and Triad to encourage private sector providers to deliver ultra-fast bandwidth at highly affordable prices.  In 2013 NCNGN issued an RFP to private companies to build the desired networks, and in 2014 recommended AT&T?s response as a master network development agreement; AT&T?s response included community benefits like pre-wiring of multi-tenant businesses, some lower speed connection for low-income housing, and service to community centers. AT&T launched in the 5 communities where they already had service in December, and is working in Durham.  Generally, where Google Fiber is already being done, having competition has driven higher speeds, lower costs and new ideas.  With both AT&T and Google, we will have to see how much they really do in less affluent areas, but both seem to be making efforts in this direction, with AT&T?s promises about community centers (tho they wouldn?t necessarily be in least wealthy areas) and Google hiring Community Impact Managers (at least in other cities).  Even if the fiber goes to only to affluent communities, lower wealth areas seem to be also getting lower costs and higher speeds (but less then a gig). 
Time Warner is bundling more internet with the cable in some multi-family buildings, so more people will have ?enough,? making it harder for Google or AT&T to get enough customers to make it worthwhile to serve the apartment building.  We are looking forward to ?experiments? with taking advantage of the infrastructure, in terms of both innovation and community inclusion.  Finally, a lot of delegates would like to address the long-standing desire for buried electric power lines as long as trenches are being dug for fibers.  

Members introduced themselves.  

Tom Miller moved to approve the November/ December minutes, David Harris seconded and delegates voted to do this.

Susan Sewell reported as treasurer that there are outstanding checks and bills (banner, hero event, etc.), but right we now have $4238.87.  The time to pay dues is
now.   Deb Hawkins said that
the Park, Public Spaces and Environmental Issues Committee will need a small amount of money to print off their environmental coloring sheetsfor kids, to hand out at community events; she will submit a budget / request next month.

Reports

?     
Parks,
Public Spaces and Environmental Issues ? There are only a few more days left in Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association?s major donor drive if a neighborhood wants to contribute; thanks to neighborhoods have also done so already.  Durham Mardi Gras (http://www.durhammardigras.com) is fund-raising, if neighborhoods or individuals want to donate; Tuesday, Feb 17 is the big night.  

?     
Hero
Awards ? The celebration will be February 15 at the Pit.  The committee is working through number of people who will fit into the venue (maybe 150, unless good enough to be outside).  Stay tuned on the invites.  There are 29 individuals getting 25 awards.  

?     
Zoning
and Development (cell towers) ? Members of the committee met with Planning and industry representatives 2 weeks ago. 
At the meeting, INC and industry explained their concerns with the current draft of the UDO revisions. 
We got memo back from Planning on their understanding from the meeting.  A lot of things still open so we don?t know what they will do.  Key question is making sure there are Board of Adjustment hearings for neighborhoods (including those in R-20 and RR in suburban areas) near proposed towers.  Another draft is coming out, and we will have to see what it is.

?     
Zoning
and Development (protest petitions) ? For the last couple years, we have fought proposals from the NC Legislature to take away the right to a protest petition.  Yesterday morning, Tom Miller was contacted by someone in the legislature working on protest petition issue.  A protest petition is triggered when property owners owning 5% of 100 foot ring (including corners) around the property with the proposed re-zoning ask for it; with a protest petition, the re-zoning takes 75% of the votes in the governing body to pass.  What legislators are talking about is changing the numbers to 20% of 100 feet, at which point 66% vote would be required.  Getting 20% would be hard because there are always things like Corps of Engineering land, inattentive landlords, etc.  Would the 66% be rounded up (if so in Durham would reduce our margin from 6 to 5 the vote needed)?  If we made the compromise, would the other side take it and go away, or come back for more (like they do with billboards)? 
We?ll be watching this. 

?     
Communications
? Applause for Pakis Bessias for rescuing the list serve.  Going forward, we will look at what needs to be done to improve the website.

?     
Outreach
? They had a list of neighborhoods that did National Night Out.  Anyone who has contacts in those neighborhoods should let Dick and Don know.  They may need $150, not the $100 budgeted, for the banner.  David Harris will work on PACs with the Outreach Committee.

New Business

Because of Colony Park?s development issue, Don Lebkes has been working a lot with Planning, which has been very helpful, but the experience makes him think there must be a better way for neighborhoods.  He will be bringing a proposal to the next meeting.

Neighborhood Reports

?     
Susan Sewell reported that TLNA has been in negotiation with Guglhupf on parking, which has been a long-term problem, with the neighborhood needing to call cops on parking in front of driveways, and so on.  The solution to change a residential lot to commercial zoning, with a development plan for only parking with full buffers and no building ever allowed on the lot. Plus covenants on deed and additional agreement with neighborhood. So the neighborhood will speak in support of the re-zoning and hopes it will be step in solving the ongoing hassles of having a neighboring commercial strip that is successful.

?     
Deb Hawkins reminded folks about upcoming Coffee with Council meetings.  If you think an ombudsman would help with Planning, this would be a good time to ask for it.

?     
Will Wilson said someone is planning a
conservation subdivision on Roxboro in northern Durham County.  It looks promising that this option, which preserves natural areas by clustering the development, is finally being tried.

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Do we want to vote on a resolution about protest petitions?  May I make a friendly amendment to thank Senator Woodard and Representative Luebke for their efforts?
Regards, pat

From: philip917azar at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:04:59 -0400
To: inc-list at lists.deltaforce.net
Subject: [Durham INC] INC Delegates' Meeting Agenda

Hello INC Delegates,

Below is the agenda for our March INC Delegates meeting.  (No surprise, it is almost identical to the agenda for the snowed-out February meeting.)
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 24th, at 7:00pm.  As usual, we will meet at the Neighborhood Improvement Services Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Building #2, Golden Belt Arts Complex, 807 E. Main St.  Any interested citizen is welcome to attend.  Please print out a copy of the agenda and bring it with you.     

If anyone has any requests for last minute additions or changes to the agenda, please let me know.   

Philip Azar, President
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

_______________________

InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
Delegates? Meeting
March 24th, 2015

AGENDA

1)   Welcome and Introductions ? Philip Azar (5 minutes)

2)   Adjustments to Agenda  ? (2 minutes) 

3)   Approval of Minutes ? (3 minutes)

4)   Treasurer?s Report ? Susan Sewell (2 minutes) 

5)   Guest Presentation -- Marissa Moriboy, Durham County Department of Public Health focusing on physical activity in Durham. Marissa may also highlight some aspects of the county?s health assessment survey both in the context of physical activity and Latino populations (which was a focus area within the survey)	(35 Minutes)

6)   Committee Reports (30 minutes)
	a)  Zoning and Development ? (20 Minutes)		Dolly Fehrenbacher (Cell Tower/UDO) 		Tom Miller (Resolution. Reprinted below.)
	b)  Hero Awards -- Bill Anderson, Mike Shifflett, Tom Miller, DeDreana Freeman, others (10 minutes)
	c)  Communications -- Pakis Bessias (5 minutes)
	d)  Other

7)   Old Business   

8)   New Business

9)   Neighborhood Reports and Announcements  (As needed)

10)  Adjourn
_____________________
A Resolution by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham Concerning Equal Access to the Legislative Zoning Process WHEREAS, the North Carolina Bar Association intends to seek legislation during the 2015 session of the North Carolina General Assembly comprehensively rewriting the statutes on city and county zoning; andWHEREAS, contained within the Bar Association?s draft bill are provisions which would take away the rights of citizens who are not owners of property to be rezoned to apply to city and county governments to rezone land on an equal footing with property owners; andWHEREAS, the power to regulate land use is an exercise of the government?s police power and is valid only if it promotes the public health, safety, and welfare, and the zoning governing a particular parcel belongs to the public and is not the property of the landowner; andWEREAS, the rezoning process is a legislative function of local government to which every citizen should have equal access;THEREFORE BE IT RESOVED by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham through its delegates assembled that InterNeighborhood Coun  cil oppo  ses the legislation sought by the North Carolina Bar Association insofar as it proposes to limit the ability of all citizens to participate in the legislative zoning process on an equal footing without regard to land ownership and calls upon the City and County of Durham and the Durham? legislative delegation to also oppose such legislation.
This ____ day of _______________, 2015.
THE INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM
By: ________________________________________Philip Azar,President _______________________________________________
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:05:20 -0400
From: Mary Lee <missmarrilee at gmail.com>
To: Tom Miller <tom-miller1 at nc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [Durham INC] [WHHNA-list] ZONING PROTEST PETITION ACTION
	NEEDED	RIGHT NOW!
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You may also want to call the *sponsors* of the bill...I think McKissick and Woodard have already spoken out against it, and suspect most Durham area House members would feel the same. Here's a link to the bill info with the names of sponsors:

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=h201

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Tom Miller <tom-miller1 at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Dear Neighbors:
>
>
>
> Tomorrow, Monday the 23rd, at 7 p.m., the NC House will vote on the 
> protest petition repeal bill, House Bill 201.  Please e-mail your 
> legislators and tell them to vote against it.  This may be our last 
> chance to stop the bill before it goes to the NC Senate (where we may 
> not expect much support).
>
>
>
> Last Thursday, the bill came up for debate in the House Local 
> Government Committee.  After the sponsors presented the bill, 
> Representative Luebke from Durham moved to amend the bill by taking 
> out the repeal language and inserting instead the compromise language 
> from Senate Bill 285.  This would save the protest petition right, but 
> raise the signing threshold from 5% to 15% and reduce the 
> supermajority vote from 3/4s to 2/3s.  When the amendment came for a 
> voice vote in the committee, it was clear that the ?ayes? had won, but 
> the committee chairman, Representative Davis, ruled that the amendment was defeated.  He then refused to recognize Rep.
> Luebke?s request for a ?division? or counted vote.  Instead he called 
> for a vote on the un-amended bill which passed.  Although this is very 
> disappointing, it does show that a significant number of house members 
> are interested in a compromise which would save the protest petition right.
>
> We expect that the amendment will be offered again tomorrow when the 
> bill is debated on the house floor.
>
>
>
> Please send a short, polite e-mail to all the members of your town or 
> city?s house members asking them to save the protest petition right.  
> Tell them to vote against House Bill 201.  I suggest that you ask them 
> to support the 5%-to-15%, 3/4s-to-2/3s amendment when it comes up tomorrow.
> SEND YOUR E-MAIL RIGHT NOW!  We may not get another chance.
>
>
>
> Durham area House members:
>
>
>
> Paul.Luebke at ncleg.net; Mickey.Michaux at ncleg.net; Larry.Hall at ncleg.net; 
> Graig.Meyer at ncleg.net; Larry.Yarborough at ncleg.net; 
> Marilyn.Avila at ncleg.net; Robert.Reives at ncleg.net; 
> Verla.Insko at ncleg.net
>
>
>
> PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD LISTSERVES!
>
>
>
> Arguments for the protest petition:
>
>
>
> *The right to file a protest petition against a rezoning is a time 
> honored right.  Under NC law, if the owners of 5% of the ring of 
> property 100 feet deep surrounding land to be rezoned file a formal *
>
> *protest petition, it takes a super majority of 3/4s of the members of 
> the city council to pass the rezoning.  The protest petition right in 
> North Carolina is as old as zoning itself.  The right was part of the 
> *
>
> *legislation passed by the General Assembly in 1923 giving cities the 
> right to regulate land use by zoning.  A protest petition right 
> protects a neighbor?s investment in his own property and his 
> reasonable expectations in the stability of the regulatory 
> environment.  It protects neighbors and property owners from sudden, 
> capricious, and wrongfully-motivated  zone changes.  When neighbors 
> file a protest petition it is a signal that the proposed rezoning deserves special attention by elected officials.
> Relatively few protest petitions are filed and they rarely cause 
> rezonings to be denied.  But protest petitions do often lead to more 
> thoughtful results in zoning cases and better buffering and 
> protections between incompatible uses.  The protest petition right 
> levels the playing field between ordinary citizens trying to protect 
> their homes and powerful developers who can afford attorneys and land 
> planners to advance their interests.  The right to a protest petition 
> was part of model zoning laws promulgated by the US Department of 
> Commerce in the 1920s.  It is part of zoning law all across the 
> country.  Citizens in states bordering North Carolina have the right 
> to file a protest petition.  Why shouldn?t we?*
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Tom Miller
>
> Durham
>
>
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