[Durham INC] INC-list Digest, Vol 194, Issue 17

[Merrick Moore Community]

Hi Pat,
The correct spelling is Merrick-Moore instead of Merritt Moore.

Thanks,
Bonita

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>    1.  Fw: Draft INC minutes (Pat Carstensen)
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> From: Pat Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: [Durham INC] Fw: Draft INC minutes
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> In advance of the meeting this week, I am sending out minutes to be
> approved.  Regards, pat
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> ________________________________
> From: INC-list <inc-list-bounces at lists.deltaforce.net> on behalf of Pat
> Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 7:24 AM
> To: inc listserv <inc-list at lists.deltaforce.net>; Best, Lynwood <
> Lynwood.Best at durhamnc.gov>
> Subject: [Durham INC] Draft INC minutes
>
> Please let me know about changes or additions.
>
> The Nov/December minutes are also below since we didn't approve them last
> week.
>
> Regards, pat
>
>
> January Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
>
> Via Zoom
>
> January 26, 2021
>
>
>
> Attending the meeting were:
>
> Neighborhoods
>
> Braggtown -- Constance Wright, Vannessa Evans
>
> Cross Counties ? Pat Carstensen
>
> Falconbridge ? Richard Ford
>
> Forest Hills ? Sarah Morris
>
> Merritt-Moore -- Bonita Green
>
> Morehead Hill ? Rochelle Araujo, Bruce Mitchell
>
> Northgate Park ? Keith Cochran, Debra Hawkins
>
> Old West Durham ? David Eklund
>
> Trappers Creek / Greymoss ? Will Wilson
>
> Trinity Park ? Philip Azar, Mimi Kessler
>
> Tuscaloosa-Lakewood ? Susan Sewell
>
> Watts Hospital Hillandale ? Tom Miller
>
>
> Andrew Foster -- Duke Law School
>
>
> Visitors
>
> Annette Smith -- Durham Parks and Recreation
>
> DeDreanna Freeman
>
> Lisa Miller -- Planning
>
> Kayla Seibel -- Planning
>
>
> President Will Wilson called the meeting to order, and those present
> introduced themselves.  There were no adjustments to the agenda.  The
> minutes went out after the last meeting, but did not get re-sent earlier,
> so we will look at approving them in February.
>
>
> Bylaws Rewrite -- Andrew Foster teaches a clinic at Duke University on
> ?community enterprises;? at clinics, students get experience while giving
> free legal advice within the community.  If we worked with them, he would
> assign a student to work with INC to work on governance, by-laws or other
> legal matters.  Understanding our options on getting advice, we then
> started going through the existing by-laws.  One issue is the definition of
> qualified neighborhoods, in terms of the formality of the neighborhood,
> especially if we are trying to do outreach across Durham, as well as
> keeping an equity lens on the definition.  There are also challenges about
> how to amend the by-laws, how to take positions, and how to compute a
> quorum.  We used to be more assiduous in checking whether member
> neighborhoods satisfy the criteria for being a member.  We would also want
> to look at creating resources that neighborhoods trying to organize can
> use.  Because Duke students work in semesters, it would be bet
>  ter to do at least a ?chuck? of work that finished by May, but there are
> ways to work around this.  Tom made two motions: one to charter a
> subcommittee and one to engage the Duke Law Clinic; Suan seconded.  Both
> passed 9-0.  Philip moved to delegate to the Will the task to appoint
> members and lead the committee.  This passed 9-0.  Volunteers will include
> Philip, David, WIll, Tom, and Bonita.
>
>
> Update Comprehensive Plan Draft Goals -- A subcommittee had 4 meetings to
> talk about it.  Kayla Seibel and Lisa Miller of the Planning Department
> joined the meeting.  One question that came up within the subcommittee a
> lot was a ?check-list? of what ?neighborhood support? is near a proposed
> development such as the nearest grocery store, meeting space and so on so
> we can evaluate whether there is or will be a ?deficit.?  We would like to
> see Community Planning like there is Community Policing -- engagement that
> is on-going rather than case-related.  Generally there is no goal that is
> about ?improving processes? in the draft.  What parts of the present
> Comprehensive Plan failed, and why, so we don?t repeat them, and are we
> throwing out major ideas (like tiers) in the current plans?  Obviously now
> that light-rail is off the table, the geographic organizing ideas of our
> community might be changing.  The equity aspects and getting beyond cars
> are good ideas.  When it gets down to impleme
>  ntation, we want to see how the issues identified get resolved.  How the
> goals interact could be clearer.  We need to sharpen regulations rather
> than weaken them, to know how / whether the can evolve, to see how to do we
> resolve conflicts among goals, and to figure how we can increase ?community
> capital.?  The engagement process needs to do better at listening to parts
> of the community that hasn?t been heard before, rather than others saying
> what they think such communities want or need.  The next steps once goals
> are adopted for the plan will be to drill down to having policies under the
> goals and objectives, and to create a new land-use map. The new Plan should
> be clearer about what is a policy to be followed and what is more like
> guidance.  The objectives needs to reflect what was said about the
> wants/needs of the community, while being realistic about what a plan can
> affect (so some things may be communicated to elected officials that don?t
> get into the plan as pretty tangential
>   to land-use, and some will take non-governmental actors to achieve).
> The goal is to get the objectives adopted by June 30, so need to have
> comments in on the goals by February 19.  The comments should give some
> kind of scale of agreement with specific goals -- is it great, OK with
> changes, or totally wrong-headed.  Planning is working with NIS to use
> their tools and processes on engagement.  What does equity look like in
> terms of process and results; how do we tackle gentrification in ways that
> work for all?  We will try to get out a document for folks to review --
> make sure Will has your address if you want it.
>
>
> Development Update -- Merritt-Moore and their neighbors will be at City
> Council on Monday at the hearing on the proposed development of 320 homes
> in their areas.  The developer has worked on putting in stormwater /
> flooding control, but the big remaining issue is the safety along Cheek
> Road and other infrastructure questions.  Other concerns include that the
> it will increase property taxes of those what have been there and
> sedimentation.  The proposed development is just crammed in without any
> sense of community.  Please come to the meeting to support the
> neighborhoods or send a note of support.
>
>
> Braggtown is also asking for a small area plan, which would be good idea.
>
>
> Treasurer?s report -- 5 neighborhoods have sent in dues, so please send
> yours in soon.
>
>
> We are still looking for a Vice-President.
>
>
> Adjourn.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: INC-list <inc-list-bounces at lists.deltaforce.net> on behalf of Pat
> Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 6:55 AM
> To: inc listserv <inc-list at lists.deltaforce.net>; Best, Lynwood <
> Lynwood.Best at durhamnc.gov>
> Subject: [Durham INC] Nov/Dec draft minutes
>
> Please let me know about changes or additions.  Thanks, pat
>
>
>
> November/December Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of
> Durham
>
> Via Zoom
>
> December 9, 2020
>
>
>
> Attending the meeting were:
>
> Neighborhoods
>
> Cross Counties ? Pat Carstensen
>
> Falconbridge ? Richard Ford
>
> Forest Hills ? Sarah Morris
>
> Long Meadow ? Pakis Bessias
>
> Morehead Hill ? Rochelle Araujo
>
> Northgate Park ? Keith Cochran
>
> Old West Durham ? David Eklund
>
> Trappers Creek / Greymoss ? Will Wilson
>
> Trinity Park ? Mimi Kessler
>
> Tuscaloosa-Lakewood ? Susan Sewell
>
> Watts Hospital Hillandale ? Tom Miller
>
>
> Visitors
>
> Lynwood Best ? Neighborhood Improvement Services (NIS), City of Durham
>
> Constance Stancil ? NIS
>
> Faith Gardner ? NIS
>
> Eli Meyerhoff ? North Durham Mutual Aid
>
> Lucia Constantine ? Old North Durham Mutual Aid
>
>
>
> President Will Wilson called the meeting to order, and those present
> introduced themselves.  There were no adjustments to the agenda. Tom moved
> and Sarah seconded to approve the September and October minutes; this
> passed.
>
>
> The Equitable Community Engagement Blueprint is at
>
>
> https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhamnis/pages/592/attachments/original/1543332399/Draft_Equitable_Engagement_Blueprint_%2818%29_11.06.pdf?1543332399
>
> Neighborhood Improvement Services (NIS) has been working on the Equitable
> Engagement Blueprint since 2018.  NIS will be taking the most recent
> version to Council, which has ?accepted? it but now needs to ?adopt? it as
> a mandate to all departments; NIS wants to consult the community first,
> conducting conversations with different populations in Durham.  The first
> equitable engagement plan was done to make more equitable engagement about
> the Durham Beltline, but once the process was developed, it was seen there
> was an opportunity to make it into a blueprint to use in other cases in
> which the city wants community comment and engagement.  The effort involves
> building more openness within (17 other departments) and outside (finding
> out where and why people haven?t been involved in the past) the government.
> NIS used the blueprint in a number of projects in engaging the community,
> such as asking what to do with the Driver Street property.  They are now
> doing some training of community partne
>  rs to have them work as partners in community engagement. In doing
> research, they learned about building trust -- that it is important to be
> honest about what ?parameters? the public can really affect and that
> engagement has to be an on-going process, not just started when a project
> comes up.  Other keys are to remove barriers (for example, provide child
> care) and to collect / analyze data.  Ultimately engagement is the
> willingness to share power, instead of listening and nodding and then do
> what you were going to do anyhow; this is a culture change that will be a
> challenge.  When asked for feedback from city departments, neighborhoods
> need to ask whether that department is using the Engagement Guidelines and
> if not, why not; also we should be asking whether a consultant who doesn?t
> have the a rich set of connections across the city is really necessary.  We
> want to encourage not only the city talking to the community, but also the
> community discussing among themselve.  The LED light
>  s and trees controversies show the value to talking to the community
> first.
>
>
> Sarah Morris, Eli Meyerhoff and Lucia Constantine shared information about
> Durham Mutual Aid.  Durham Mutual Aid is about how neighbors can support
> neighbors, with solidarity not charity.  The types of help can include food
> distribution, financial help, and emotional support.  In disaster relief,
> often the first responders are neighbors, before government helps.  There
> were at one point 12 active mutual aid groups in Durham; but with mergers
> and other changes, there are now 5-6 active.  Old North Durham / Duke Park
> Mutual Aid did flyers and a survey, and learned less about needs and more
> about offers to help.  They then did door-to-door outreach handing out free
> masks.  They got over $3000 in Food Lion gift cards for families at Durham
> Nativity School, gave 52 households $300 in rent relief, and
> ?re-distributed? stimulus check money to 4 families.   They also did some
> non-financial things.  North Durham Mutual Aid (Northgate Park and Colonial
> VIllage) has reached outside the formal b
>  oundaries of their neighborhoods, such as to the big apartment building
> west of the neighborhood.  They are delivering groceries to 10-12 families
> bi-weekly, with 20-30 families having gotten food this year; they have also
> done some help with rent.  They were engaged in North Durham Alternatives
> to Policing as a way to use mutual aid as an alternative to calling the
> police.  They are trying to figure out how to be more sustainable, and
> trying to get the recipients more involved to create a more democratic
> model.  If you want to get involved, there is great guide from AOC?s
> office, donate to Bull City Mutual Aid cash fund, and check out the website
> durhammutualaid.org.  Generally the Mutual Aid groups are simply
> clearing-houses between those with need and those wanting to help.  Long
> Meadow has had a non-financial mutual aid group for a long time.
>
>
> OLD BUSINESS
>
>
> Development Project updates -- A neighborhood meeting was scheduled to
> look at changing the zoning for a single property from the suburban to the
> urban tier; we don?t know enough to decide what we think about it.   The
> City has decided to do a small area plan in the Olive Branch Road area; the
> Planning Commission has been turning down proposals in area because the
> proposals have been so pitiful, not looking forward to what suburban
> development could be with better standards, but isn?t against development
> in the area.  The Planning Commission is asserting itself in a way it has
> never done before; the Policy Committee is coming up with its own ideas
> about how the rules can be better (initially, block lengths in new
> subdivisions).  There will be an opening on the Planning Commission if you
> want to apply.
>
>
> Dues will be due in January.
>
>
> Susan moved to adjourn.  Tom seconded and we adjourned.
>
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