<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpde9e42e8yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Stephen,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We don't mind doing, but I feel a letter from all the Communities Associations and leaders should go out to inform all of the community members throughout Durham. We are all stronger together than apart so let's all do our part to help make a better Durham.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydpde9e42e8signature"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sent from Yahoo Mail. <a href="https://yho.com/148vdq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Get the app</a></div></div></div>
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On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 01:14:51 PM EST, Stephen Knill <knillsj@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv7851437518"><div>Vanessa. Can the BCA send one as an organization too?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Stephen Knill</span><br clear="none"></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">+1 917 620 4941</a><br clear="none">knillsj@gmail.com<br clear="none"></span><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="yiv7851437518yqtfd22477" class="yiv7851437518yqt9562693893"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 16, 2023, at 1:06 PM, Vannessa Evans <vevans2016@yahoo.com> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><div id="yiv7851437518yqtfd50438" class="yiv7851437518yqt9562693893"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv7851437518ydp99e72710yahoo-style-wrap"><div><div dir="ltr">The BCA has sent out to all of our social media pages.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7851437518ydp99e72710signature"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sent from Yahoo Mail. <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://yho.com/148vdq">Get the app</a></div></div></div>
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On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 09:55:45 AM EST, Stephen Knill <knillsj@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv7851437518"><div>Great overview. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Stephen Knill</span><br clear="none"></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">+1 917 620 4941</a><br clear="none">knillsj@gmail.com<br clear="none"></span><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="yiv7851437518yqtfd60844" class="yiv7851437518yqt4201304918"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 16, 2023, at 9:46 AM, Mimi Kessler <mimikessler1@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><div id="yiv7851437518yqtfd99769" class="yiv7851437518yqt4201304918"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nice!<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv7851437518gmail_signature">Mimi Kessler<br clear="none">919-599-2892</div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7851437518gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv7851437518gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 9:39 AM tom miller <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:miller.tom2022@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:miller.tom2022@gmail.com">miller.tom2022@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv7851437518gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div class="yiv7851437518m_-6185166004167559503WordSection1"><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Dear Walltown neighbors and Durham residents,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">The Walltown Community Association is calling on Durham residents to tell City Council to vote down the controversial and undemocratic zoning amendment called SCAD.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">SCAD is a major rewrite of Durham’s zoning laws that was written by a small group of developers, who refused to incorporate most suggestions from Durham’s residents. Walltown is likely to be a target location for many new SCAD developments. For Walltown residents, some of the main concerns with SCAD are:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">False affordability. </span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">New affordable rental units would only have to be affordable for 5 years, and affordable for-sale units only have to be affordable for the first sale. But developers would still get affordable housing incentives from the city! <b>This means your tax dollars will be subsidizing market-rate housing in Durham. </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Removal of buffers protecting homes from new developments.</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> Buffers reduce the impacts if a large apartment building or a bar is built next to your house by requiring the buildings be set back from the property line. <b>SCAD removes all buffers for large residential buildings,</b> so something like a 5-story apartment building could be built just a few feet from the property line, and<b> lets many commercial developments, including bars, be built without the larger buffers</b> <b>currently required when next to a house</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">SCAD will accelerate gentrification and displacement in Black and working-class neighborhoods. </span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">As members of the Fayetteville Street Corridor Planning Group have highlighted: “while the SCAD amendment would create more density, this density will not be evenly distributed throughout the city/county.” <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/386326459461258/posts/818955449531688/"><span style="color:blue;">Read more on their opinion here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">SCAD was written behind closed doors. </span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">The public was not allowed to give input until after they had written SCAD and discussed it with the City’s Planning Department.<b> They even </b><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.durhamhabitat.org/news-events/board-of-directors-ceo-and-staff-response-to-scad"><b><span style="color:blue;">used Habitat for Humanity’s name on the proposal without their approval</span></b></a><b>!</b> And <b>they have made no changes to the affordability requirements</b>–despite the community demanding this over and over for more than a year. (Read more about this in the <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iNLUtNX-Lx4eEj03IYHwNmgTlUmrAXzs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116109384109426231711&rtpof=true&sd=true"><span style="color:blue;">summary</span></a> from a SCAD Task Force member ) Durham is almost finished with its new <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.durhamnc.gov/346/Comprehensive-Plan"><span style="color:blue;">Comprehensive Plan</span></a>, which has engaged thousands of Durham residents. <b>The Comprehensive Plan should be the document we use to guide changes to the UDO (Unified Development Ordinance), not SCAD. </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">SCAD is so long and complex, City Planning has spent days and days of staff time evaluating it, much more than the $4,396 application fee the developers paid to submit SCAD. This means <b>Durham taxpayers have subsidized the review of a plan we don’t want</b>, <b>and they won’t listen to our input on.</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">This is not how democracy should work, and we need to tell City Council to Say No to SCAD! <b>We are calling on the City Council to reject SCAD during their Monday, November 20th public hearing</b>. It currently looks like a close vote, so <b>Walltown is asking Durham residents to do 2 things</b>:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Fill up City Council chambers for the public hearing on Monday, November 20th at 7 pm. You can register to speak <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://nc-durham.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter/City-Council-4"><span style="color:blue;">here</span></a> (in person or remote). </span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Whether or not you attend in person, you can also provide written comments to the City Council.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Contact the Mayor and other Councilmembers to let them know you disapprove of SCAD. </span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">You can email the entire council at <b><span style="color:black;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:council@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:council@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal;">council@durhamnc.gov</span></a></span></b> or using the individual contact information below (see also <b><span style="color:black;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.durhamnc.gov/Directory.aspx?DID=131"><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal;">City directory</span></a></span></b>).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Elaine O’Neal (Mayor):</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4333, ext. 10269; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:elaine.oneal@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:elaine.oneal@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">elaine.oneal@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Javiera Caballero:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10272; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Javiera.Caballero@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:Javiera.Caballero@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">Javiera.Caballero@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">DeDreana Freeman:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10276; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:DeDreana.Freeman@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:DeDreana.Freeman@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">DeDreana.Freeman@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Jillian Johnson:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10278; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jillian.johnson@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:jillian.johnson@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">jillian.johnson@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Mark-Anthony Middleton:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10277; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mark-anthony.middleton@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:mark-anthony.middleton@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">mark-anthony.middleton@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Monique Holsey-Hyman:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10274; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Monique.Hyman@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:Monique.Hyman@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">Monique.Hyman@durhamnc.gov</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;vertical-align:baseline;" class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Leonardo Williams:</span></b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"> 919-560-4396, ext. 10273; <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Leonardo.Williams@durhamnc.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:Leonardo.Williams@durhamnc.gov"><span style="color:blue;">Leonardo.Williams@durhamnc.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Thank you for your time and support. Please let us know if you want to learn more or help the Walltown Community Association make our voices heard.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">On behalf of the Walltown Community Association,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Rafe Mazer</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv7851437518MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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