[Durham INC] Fw: Draft May minutes

[Pat Carstensen]

I am forwarding in advance of next week's meeting

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Subject: [Durham INC] Draft May minutes

Please let me know about any corrections or additions, thanks, pat


May Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

Golden Belt

May 28, 2019


Attending the meeting were:
Neighborhoods

Braggtown – Vannessa Evans

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen

Forest Hills – Matt McDowell, Ellen Pless

Long Meadow – Stevie Daniels

Morehead Hill – Rochelle Araujo, Bruce Mitchell

Old North Durham – Peter Katz, John Martin

Trappers Creek / Greymoss – Will Wilson

Trinity Park – Philip Azar

Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell

Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller

Visitors

Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS

Annette Smith – DPR and Durham Parks Foundation

John Killeen – DataWorks

Mary Molina

Anthony Scott – Durham Housing Authority


PresidentRochelle Araujo welcomed those present, and folks introduced themselves.  The April minutes were approved.


Anthony Scott of the Durham Housing Authority gave a presentation on, and led a discussion of, the DHA’s Downtown and Neighborhood Planningplan, which includes 7 sites and 13 phases, for re-development with the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program – for details, such as the proposed number and distribution of units and the locations, see https://www.durhamhousingauthority.org/development/ddnp-documents/).  RAD is a program to partner with private capital and developers to get mixed-income (and ideally mixed-use) development and to address the serious maintenance issues with public housing (due to the at least $27B of underinvestment that Congress has managed to build up over time).  Basically, including market-rate units creates an “income stream” that will realistically support maintenance needs.  The program would take 10 years, staged in order to best exploit the 9% tax credits for affordable housing.  Current residents of public housing not only have a “right to return,” but also get assistance in moving, such as not needing to pay moving costs.


Committees

  *   The committee on metrics for Expanding Housing Choicesmet and talked about the metrics that members had proposed.  They decided that they need to first look at who needs to be in on the conversation and focus on what values or aspirations the metrics should be measuring progress on.
  *   We tentatively decided to do a Candidate Forum for city elections this fall, with details to be worked out later.

Neighborhood Reports

  *   The 15th Annual Beaver Queen Pageantis THIS Saturday at Duke Park, 4-7 pm, on behalf of ECWA’s 20th Anniversary!  Event page for show, weather updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/427768271317017/.  Please get your votes/bribes in.
  *   Watts Hillandale has been "in conversation" for two yearsabout a proposed development across Hillandale from St. Luke’s Church.  The conversation started out in a promising way, with a lot of “new urbanism” patter, but is ending up as a 90-unit apartment complex.



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