[Durham INC] Topics and activities for INC in next year

[Pat Carstensen]

I should have added that anyone with additional ideas should let me know.  I think what we will do is ask for volunteers who want to be on a committee to pursue the activities and set up some kind of SurveyMonkey poll around topics.

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Subject: [Durham INC] Topics and activities for INC in next year

One of the discussions from last week's INC meeting was topics for meetings and activities / possible committees for the next year.

Meeting topics

  *   Comprehensive plan and the change process to create it (the effort to get direct input from people – especially those who have not traditionally participated – is good, but the effort needs to be complemented by engaging interest groups like neighborhoods)
  *   Nate Baker on the Policy Subcommittee of Planning Commission
  *   Sara Young -- New Planning Director
  *   How do we reach out to renters, how do we do better at encouraging home ownership (Durham isn’t doing well at getting new market-entry housing)
  *   Homelessness
  *   Mutual aid organizations -- neighbor to neighbor to ask / offer help of various kinds, sometimes using outside organization to distribute food aid or money
  *   Update on COVID
  *   Energy (clean energy, efficiency)
  *   Gun violence
  *   How neighborhoods can organize to get changes (sidewalks, slow streets)
  *   Street lights
  *   New census data -- what it means
  *   Economic development and innovation

Activities / committees

  *   Host or co-host program on equitable development (with a panel, 2.5 hours).  It would cover topics such as transforming cities, displacement/gentrification, role of people, who profits (not just a discussion of planners, developers and elected officials, but something the public participates in)
  *   Comprehensive plan and the change process to create it (the effort to get direct input from people – especially those who have not traditionally participated – is good, but the effort needs to be complemented by engaging interest groups like neighborhoods)
  *   Recruiting Walltown and Braggtown into INC
  *   Planning Commission recruitment that keeps neighborhood voices on it – the body is a much more “interesting”
  *   New bylaws
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