<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">At the last 2 City Council meetings there were discussions about Fire Station 17 being out of capacity to handle incidents when all the developments already approved in SE Durham are populated.</div><div class="">At the last meeting, Councilman Middleton instructed both the Fire Department and the Planning Department to not include “ cumulative effects” in the Impact Studies they provide for these. The City Manager also told both to not include this information.</div><div class="">Please watch 10 minutes starting at 2:19:40 in the You Tube recording below. You’ll see the actual exchange.</div><div class="">This is a dangerous directive and could affect every one of your communities going forward. We are discussing with County and some City officials. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="x_x_x_WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsIBfvVk2s" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsIBfvVk2s" style="color: blue;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsIBfvVk2s</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>