[Durham INC] Fw: Draft January Minutes

[Pat Carstensen]

Resending in advance of next week's meeting

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The video recording is at; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tjMoPwQ3ayjPWpO2eA2vV_d7hzfGBHuM/view
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Please let me know about corrections or additions.  Thanks, pat


January  Delegate Meeting

InterNeighborhood Council of Durham, Via Zoom

January 24, 2023


Attending the meeting were:

Neighborhoods

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen

Falconbridge – Dick Ford

Leesville Road Coalition – Steven Knill

Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias

Merrick-Moore – Bonita Green

Morehead Hill – Bruce Mitchell

Old North Durham – Mimi O’Brien

Trinity Park –  Mimi Kessler, Philip Azar

Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell

Watts Hospital Hillandale – Tom Miller, Sherri Zann Rosenthal (non-delegate)


Guests

Lisa Miller – Planning

Kayla Seibel – Planning

Emilie McIntosh – Durham Parks and Recreation



President Bonita Green called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone; those present introduced themselves.


Comprehensive Plan – Lisa Miller and Kayla Seibel talked about the final stages in adopting a new Comprehensive Plan.  The process of creating a new Comprehensive Plan started in 2019 and previously approved parts on plans and objectives and place types and maps.  What is new is the implementation section.  The plan is supposed to guide how the county grows and develops, is used to evaluate zoning requests and annexations, informs work plans for various government departments, and affects the changes in the rules (the UDO).  The last plan is 17 years old, so it doesn’t well match where we are now.  Using the community engagement guide has enabled us to incorporate equity objectives.  The full draft plan came out yesterday.  Online engagement will be open until March 30, and there are a number of events.  They expect final approval will come at a joint City Council / BOCC hearing and vote in August.  There was a question on how do the privately-initiated changes to the UDO fit with this process of engagement to find out what the community desires; Planning’s response was that the privately-initiated changes may reflect what the new plan envisions, and based on the Comprehensive Plan implementation, we may be need to revise this change as we rewrite the UDO. Planning staff does have concerns about the privately-initiated process in light of our desire to have equitable engagement of the entire community.  How SE Durham is developing is totally out of line with what the new Comprehensive Plan envisions in terms of sustainable growth. One improvement in the current process is to be more intentional in detecting the need for evolution (including the engagement process for that detection) and doing that evolution.  The key resources for information are:

  *   The full plan, hand-outs, survey, and so on: https://engagedurham.com/201/Adoption-Process

  *   Email to submit questions and concerns: ENGAGEDurham at durhamnc.gov

  *   Online engagement plan:  https://durham.mysocialpinpoint.com/comprehensiveplan


The minutes from the November/December meeting were approved.


Committee Reports:  On the bylaws, Tom and Phil are working on finishing their registration as agent for INC and getting the “articles” officially updated and filed with the Secretary of State.


Neighborhood Reports, Announcements, and Issues

  *   Durham will get some money from the opioid settlements and is asking for comment on how to spend it.   Pat will send out information on it, and we may want to have a presentation on it.

  *   Leesville Road Coalition had candidate fora last year and expects to do them for City Council / mayoral races this year.  They would be open to partnering with INC to do these.  INC used to do such fora, sometimes with other organizations.  This was received as a good idea.

  *   Do we want to do in-person meetings at some point?

  *   Watts Hospital Hillandale is getting a deluge of development issues, including a board of adjustment case about a developer trying to fit 4 houses into the space by cutting the street yard drastically, which would have re-set the standard for 2 blocks.  The neighborhood won the case as there was no “hardship” to justify the request.  The Anthony amendment would let the developer do what they want so there is no incentive to negotiate.  Mimi K, Tom, Sherri, and Bonita will be on committee to study the Anthony amendment and suggest an INC response; they will reach out to others who might want to be on the committee, and Mimi K volunteered to lead the effort.   Stephen will look at the Planning Commission comments.

  *   The Trinity Park Home Tour sold 800 tickets and made a big contribution to Families Moving Forward.

  *   Dues are due.  Two neighborhoods have already sent theirs in.

  *   Merritt-Moore Park has started installing one of the play grounds.  The community organization will be planting their first crop their first crop and a fruit and nut forest.

  *   Based on the discussion on the listserve, we dedicate a future meeting to discussion of neighborhood newsletters.


Adjourn - Next meeting February 28, 2023, 7 PM


Note: Dues are $25/year (January to December) but neighborhoods are encouraged to pay more than the minimum to support INC's work.

They may be sent to:

INC Treasurer, Susan Sewell, or they may be mailed to:

InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

732 Ninth St, #700

Durham, NC 27705



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