<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello Durham neighbors,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> It has been more than one year since our learning of the developer-initiated text amendment changes, SCAD; ie, Simplifying Codes for Affordable Development. This item is on the council general agenda for Monday, August 21st, the meeting begins at 7 pm. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">For several months four INC representatives met with the applicant team under the guidance of the planning director and staff. the INC representatives presented a list of 22 items that were of our highest priority to be addressed, to the applicants and the planning director. The applicants addressed 6 of the 22 items. The PATH program was not a topic for discussion. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Since INC's letter of Resolution to the City Council against SCAD, Several other neighborhoods and organizations have forwarded their position on SCAD to the council. I have attached those to this email. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It is going to be a long evening.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>CALL TO ACTION:</b></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Plan to attend the Monday evening Council Session, and register to speak.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Register to speak via Zoom</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Forward an email to the Council stating your position on SCAD</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:center"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;background-color:transparent;width:800.552px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 5.4pt;vertical-align:top"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="" size="2">City Council Meeting Agenda</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">Monday, August 21, 2023 - 7 </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">p.m.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2">101 City Hall Plaza, First Floor Council Chambers</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"> </font></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">Please note:</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">Agenda items are current at the time of posting.</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"> </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">Items may be changed, updated, or added after initial posting.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">To access Agenda-related documents, please click on the underlined </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic;text-decoration-line:underline">Agenda Item title</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">Click here </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hw3PrSxLQM2Y8VtYc7Fm-A" id="gmail-lnkAgendaItem_1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(53,106,184);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hw3PrSxLQM2Y8VtYc7Fm-A</span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">to register to </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">speak</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic"> during the City Council Meeting on a below-listed agenda item. 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Public Hearings</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,0,0);width:472.5pt"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box;height:13.2pt"><td style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 5.4pt;width:461.7pt;vertical-align:top"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">26</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">. </span><a name="I34279" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(53,106,184)"></a><a href="https://cityordinances.durhamnc.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=594&doctype=1#" id="gmail-lnkAgendaItem_36" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(53,106,184);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(5,99,193)">Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendment- Simplifying Codes for Affordable Development</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">To conduct a public hearing to receive comments and consider the following motions:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Motion 1: To adopt an ordinance amending the Unified Development Ordinance, incorporating revisions to Article 3, Applications and Permits; Article 4, Zoning Districts; Article 5, Use Regulations; Article 6, District Intensity Standards; Article 7, Design Standards; Article 8, Environmental Protection; Article 9, Landscaping and Buffering; Article 10, Parking and Loading; Article 12, Infrastructure and Public Improvements; Article 13, Additional Requirements for Subdivisions; Article 14, Nonconformities; Article 16, Design Districts; and Article 17, Definitions effective October 1, 2023; and</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Motion 2: To adopt the appropriate consistency statement as required per NCGS </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">-</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> 160D-605.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">(</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Resource Person: Bo Dobrzenski</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> - 919-560-4137 ext. 28230) (PR# 16364)</span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""> </font></span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td></td><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><img width="750" height="443" src="cid:image004.png@01D9D37E.05C22590" alt="A group of hands in the air
Description automatically generated" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; width: 7.8125in; height: 4.6145in;"></td></tr><tr><td height="36"></td></tr><tr><td height="905"></td><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="mailto:council@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="765" height="905" src="cid:image007.png@01D9D37E.05C22590" alt="COMMUNITY FIRST: REJECT THE SCAD AMENDMENT
Members of the Fayetteville Street Corridor Planning Group have reviewed the “Simplifying Codes for more Affordable Development (SCAD)” Amendment also known as the "Anthony Amendment" and have taken the position that it should be rejected by the Durham City Council, the Durham County Commission and by our community.
We feel that this 87-page proposed text amendment, if approved, will have a colossal negative impact on the city's future housing landscape – changing the character of our traditional neighborhoods, increasing taxes, and creating drainage/water runoff problems to name a few.
SCAD, if approved, will make sweeping changes to Durham's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), a document that spells out local regulations for zoning and land development. Most notably, SCAD's proponents say, by loosening building and zoning regulations, that SCAD would uplift small, local developers and deliver vastly more units of affordable housing to our city/county.
However, members of the Fayetteville Street Corridor Planning Group feel that while the SCAD amendment would create more density, this density will not be evenly distributed throughout the city/county. Since land in our traditional neighborhoods is cheaper, SCAD will affect African American and other moderately-priced neighborhoods more intensely and will create even more development pressure to build more units – thereby accelerating gentrification and displacement of current residents who own and rent.
We feel that SCAD will not create more affordable homes as developers/builders will build to whatever price points the market will bear. In pure economic terms, they stand to reap more profits from building in our traditional neighborhoods due to cheaper land prices, and the advanced age of current residents and their homes.
SCAD, in our opinion, will provide developers ways to circumvent many of the standards, review mechanisms, and community engagement processes typically involved in equitable development and planning. It is our group’s contention that SCAD will open the floodgates for development to occur in ways that will accelerate gentrification and displacement.
In addition to our recommendation that our governing bodies reject this amendment, we also recommend that the Durham City/County Planning Department reject the entire amendment when this item comes before the Durham City/County Planning Commission, the Durham City Council and the Durham County Commission.
If you agree with our recommendation, please copy & paste this message and share it with the following governing bodies:
Durham City Council council@durhamnc.gov
Durham County Commission Commissioners@dconc.gov
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