good evening happy Monday we would like to call the Durham city council meeting to order for this Monday April 17 2023 at 7 pm exactly here at 101 City Hall Plaza first floor in our council chambers I'd like you join me in a moment of silence as we Center ourselves for this evening thank you I'll now turn to councilwoman di drama Freeman to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you it's our practice to stand and salute the flag if you'll join us [Music]
foreign clerk if you will call the roll Madam mayor I am president thank you I'm mayor protein Middleton has requested an excused absence for today council member Javiera Caballero here councilmember Freeman president councilmember Halsey Halsey Hyman present councilmember Johnson here and councilmember Leonardo Williams I am here thank you will what a time what a Time the moment has come I've been waiting for this moment for a couple of weeks now for the state of the City address this city that I love so well my hometown I'm honored to serve as your mayor
and I'm honored tonight to stand here with you all who have joined us here in Chambers and with you all who are watching at home for me to tell you what my journey has been like and what the city of of Durham has been doing since I last addressed you about this time last year I'm extremely pleased to see all of you tonight and it brings me joy when I think about all that we have accomplished we've accomplished so much over the last year it's impossible to include it all tonight but I will cover as much ground as possible on where the city of Durham stands on pressing issues and where I hope to have your help to move us forward first I want to honor and recognize my
Council colleagues who serve with me and also our city manager who I'll talk about again and I'll see the attorney thank you all for all of the work that you do for the city of Durham I want to start with some good news we could talk about a lot of bad news but this is a good news time and it's certainly not all of it I encourage you to stay up to date and spread the word about the many great things happening in our city make sure that you sign up for the bi-weekly newsletter called City connect which includes messages from our city manager of or view the Bull City today segments on Spectrum Channel 8 or on the city's YouTube and social media pages City has continued to strengthen our
partnership with Durham County I got us stop and talk about the relationship that I have with our chair of the Durham County Board of Commissioners chair Brenda Howerton who's here with me tonight she has been a mentor to me in this role she's been a partner to me on many things on a personal basis I value though most what she's been able to accomplish with Durham County as their chair and I Look to her for guidance in a lot of things so I want to publicly say thank you for your friendship for your Sisterhood for all the things that you do for our County and I also want to brag that we've been able to partner on a lot of things
together from an addressing crime and enhancing Public Safety to our Partnerships on affordable housing and economic and Youth Development and be it rest assured that it's her board as well we coordinate well between the two boards and it's an historic board that she chairs and so we are grateful that we are sharing this historic time together so we are working to ensure that whether you have a city or a county address your leaders be rest assured that your leaders are coordinating our efforts and our resources to achieve greatest impact now we've all heard about the bipartisan infrastructure law and through the passing of that law a once in a generation investment in our country's infrastructure
this city Durham city has been awarded over 10 million dollars to support Safe Streets and roads for all programs our emergency Watershed Protection Program and Hazard mitigation but we are not stopping there we are in currently investigating 56 other competitive grant opportunities and we are awaiting decisions on several more applications just today we receive great news from congresswoman Valerie fucci's office that the city we hope receive three million dollars for the South Side revitalization phase three and phase four this project was chosen because it fills our continued need for affordable housing and demonstrates strong Community Support so we're aligned and if we receive that money it will come in
2024. now let's talk about the surveys that our residents filled out for Durham city about satisfaction with the services that are over 2 000 employees meet out every day the city of Durham's annual satisfaction survey shows that residents positively perceive the Bull City as an excellent or good place to live and work 82 percent feel that Durham is an excellent or good place to live of those who filled out the survey and 78 percent felt that Durham is an excellent or good place to work now that's clap worthy right there let's stop notable increases in satisfaction since 2000 since the 2021 survey
S Department of Housing and Urban Development that we've been selected to receive 40 million dollars in Choice neighborhoods implementation
grant funding or cni funding and if you ride down Main Street you will see some of that happening now These funds are going towards the revitalization of Durham's existing 519 East Main Street the Liberty Street revitalization will be developing multiple other DHA City and county-owned properties in downtown Durham and Central City neighborhoods we're trying to have one Main Street not the tale of two main streets that we have right now we have also funded several reading several ready affordable housing projects that will bring approximately 400 new units online these uh four projects are currently being considered by our partners over in the county and we are using Arbor monitors to do that and so I believe that the county we have already
committed 10 million the city and the county I believe has committed 10 million as well so that's clap worthy now my leads are tonight and continuing on on the arbor money we've also awarded over 20 million dollars plus to 34 approved projects led by Durham nonprofits and Community organizations which will address safety stable housing economic equity Community resiliency and health and Witness Wellness we have also invested greatly in community and Public Safety through our community safety part Department's Pilots of new response models for 9-1-1 call service and our support of our violent Interrupters like Bull City United and the reformers and
I'll come back and talk to them because some of those people that I saw and introduced to you last year they are here tonight as well I also want to mention that I did visit our 911 call center on last week and we have a new class over there we have seven new persons who are being trained probably right now to become 9-1-1 operators and that is not an easy job so we congratulate those new trainees and we are so thankful for our staff over there who work really really hard to make sure that when you pick up the phone and dial 9-1-1 there is an answer and help is on the way the work of these individuals you know it's often behind the scenes and courageous and pioneering for our violent Interrupters our 911 callers all of those our heart Team all of these
people work odd hours sometimes long hours and so I want to take a moment to ask them to stand if you are Bull City United heart team if you're the reformers please stand if you're in the audience tonight stand to be recognized we are grateful for your service we are grateful for your service we've also invested in Economic Development with small business support for minor to own or women-owned and underutilized businesses and in strategies like guaranteed income for improving economic equity for vulnerable populations but North Carolina is getting ready to make Durham is getting ready to make history again in 2029
2029 we will host the World University games that summer and that was a process that had to be vetted and people had to go out of town and across the waters and bring it home didn't they Bruno Howard but they brought it home they brought it home and so in 2029 and I hope that everybody's who's here today will be there in 2029 we will have lots of visitors right here in Durham and North Carolina Central University at Duke University as these games will be held all over Durham I think Chapel Hill no Greensboro and it's one other place from the city and Raleigh so that's going to bring millions of dollars
into our community and millions of visitors to our state and city and we hope that they will have a great experience and come back so we've got some great things happening in Durham and I'd like just to give a round of applause for all of our city workers who made most of this a lot of this happened well we are now a city of of approximately 350 000 Plus we're racially ethnically diverse we are the fourth largest city in North Carolina and the 71st largest city in the United States yeah in case you didn't know because I
3 miles square miles so that's not a lot but it is a lot right so in your city now your city maintains over 600 miles of paved roads the rest of your roads are maintained by the state but the city of Durham and its workers maintain 600 miles of paved Rose and the infrastructure to support all of these things and these numbers is called Durham city government the city is responsible because I have to tell people because they like to call and tell us we're responsible for this are we responsible for that and I have to kind of tell you no not quite city government can't handle it all that we're not supposed to that's the beauty of our democracy we have several forms of government
but the city is responsible for what we call Brick and Mortar right your streets your lights your sidewalks our water and your bus service our County Partners are responsible for Human Services that support our residents and we work very closely with them to ensure that all of our residents receive the support they need the city of Durham itself has 27 departments and 2360 full-time employees 297 part-time employees now the Durham fire department the police department emergency communications Parks and Recreations Community safety Water Management Solid Waste Public Works office of Economic and Workforce Development inspections and planning
they provide a multitude of direct support to our residents each and every day several providing 24-hour response in cases of emergency or crisis but you know what you won't see most of the people who work for the city of Durham it is a 24 hour 365 day operation the city never closes I had to learn at the hallway enough clothes so who are they who are these people who dedicate their lives to Public Service as public service guys and as city employees they're really the lifelines of our city so first I have to acknowledge the lady that heads at all the operations of our city the day-to-day operations of our city the
council is a policy making board city manager page she runs the day today operations and she runs it will you have our attorney Kim rayberg she makes sure that we stay within the confines of the law as it regards to operations of the city and our Clerk is Donna Schreiber she makes sure that everything that happens there's a note written about it for the most part so please give them also a round of applause and each of our uh we only the city Only the the council only has three employees a clerk attorney and our manager but under them
there are several layers of people who keep things running in their departments but to keep the city running there are four people that stand as Deputy city managers and I'd like to introduce them to some and reintroduce them to others Mr Keith Chadwell Mr Beau Fergus come on Miss Bertha Johnson that's three of them Mr matters three and they have portfolios underneath where they also then have Department directors and they carry out the day-to-day operations of our city there's one thing that both I and our city leaders know that none of this works without
the other people that show up each day without question and with a spirit of Excellence to make sure our residents have reliable city services city employees get all the stars every single one of them and I asked all of our city employees if you're here tonight to please stand now the city of nerve is also not bad to work for in case you're looking for a job we are now standing employee I'm telling you they have great with did you know that the city is self-insured on its health benefits now how many of you are working for a company that can't blame that but the city has managed to do that we have great health benefits it's a great work environment the opportunities for advancement and
impact now I know a lot of y'all most y'all call us when something goes wrong I get it but you know you got people on the other end who love working for the city and they're able to take your call and make something happen from there so I want you to consider joining us as a city employee so you can see the results and and impact of your work every day I guarantee you it is never a dull Jay time on this job working for the city of Durham never thought they so I'm gonna Focus the rest of my time on the issues and that I believe require our immediate attention to make Durham a great place to live work and play for all and when I became your mayor that was just not a phrase for me I had to break that down into workable Solutions for me to kind of understand
live work and play what does that mean so first let's talking about living in Durham let's talk about that but I want to ground Us in this quote from Martin Luther King in 1967 when the world was very different I was about five years old he issued a call to action for Americans to confront poverty and Injustice Dr King said and I quote we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today we'll confronted with the fierce urgency of now in this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late there is no time for apathy or complacency this is a Time
for vigorous and positive action many of the same challenges that were faced at that time Echo today the urgency of now so let's talk about living in Durham first I have to acknowledge the senseless violence that continues to plague our city and cities all across this great nation each person taken away from our community continues to tear hoes in the very fabric of Who We Are I'm committed I've been committed to considering all strategies
to address the root causes of violence including poverty lack of housing and economic opportunity for all our residents I will ask for a moment of silence a reflection for our community to members that we lost just as recently as yesterday and over the last year and past years as well as for their friends and Families who must carry on thank you for that I'd also like to announce that
M a time of silence for those we have lost and we're calling that the day of remembrance during this event we will ask our entire community Wherever You Are together with us and our students to mourn the recent acts of violence at
Hillside and other schools and to pray for those families directed Lee affected in our school community at Large more information about the event and the location will be forthcoming in my state of the city address last year I spoke of two main streets the idea that many of our residents are living very different lives from one another just on Main Street you can't ignore that iniquity you can see it it's visible and our growth and success is also visible the new Office Buildings the new apartments new restaurants Now new homes but that's not the entire story the reality is is that Durham's
Prosperity has not been shared equally or equitably across our community and our most vulnerable populations are feeling the effects the most and the sad part about it is this is not new it didn't just happen last year when Elaine O'Neal became male it doesn't happen in the last five years it's been going on a long time so we have to continue to invest in closing these gaps but your most basic need as a human being is that of shelter housing and I believe that ensuring that all residents have access to safe and affordable housing we have a stabilizing effect across many areas of our society now I participated in January
in what they call the point in time count never really heard of that but it's an annual count that goes on all across the United States and you basically count your your unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on that single night it's completed in January when it's bit of cold and so I had the opportunity to go out this year now the point in time count has been rising over the last five years due to the lack of affordable housing units and just not enough Supportive Services in place to help people remain in housing the number of people who from October 2021 through September 2022 over 1 000 people here in Durham entered emergency shelter
transitional housing a permanent Supportive Housing and this year those numbers are expected to increase is something to talk about it but I got a chance to see it next year when it comes around take the time to go out it's an eye-opening experience it was then that I grasped Where We Are in terms of what we have to do to make sure that this trend does not continue each one of the individuals that I saw that night each of them all around our city they deserve our most fervent efforts to prevent homelessness if Durham wants to become a great place to live for all we can't allow the trend of
increasing homelessness to continue homelessness though that's that's not the problem it's the symptom of the larger societal failures and disinvestment in our people we have to invest in education Health Care jobs jobs training as well as affordable housing and make sure that it's readily available for all income levels that's our responsibility and that's the road ahead I'm proud of our relationships that I mentioned with the housing providers and partners you know as they Endeavor to transform and reimagine our public housing sites in and around downtown Durham you know you have the new construction of the Willow Street Apartments
J Henderson Elizabeth Street Forest Hill Heights other sites you know and and those housing they are high quality affordable and mixed income housing that help to keep long-term Durham residents in our Central City but it's not enough it's not enough as a council you know we spent much of the last year diving deep into a kind of comprehensive review of housing issues in our city what I call a deep dive into housing so we could get the the lay of the land of housing in Durham so we have had an analysis of you know City demographics the current housing
market which includes affordability development processes infrastructure a comprehensive understanding of community needs if you haven't had an opportunity to do so go back and look at some of those sessions of our work session we're about finishing up now and we're going to have that conclusion in a couple of weeks but at the end of that we hope to have a document that will help to guide the councils how we approach housing in Durham but more importantly to have some type of document that gives us a point in time as to where we stand in the city so that when you come on as a newly elected person or you're coming into the city working in those departments you'll have something that can help you get up to speed it was really hard for me to figure out housing in Durham and it still remains very complex but it is incumbent upon all of us if we are to do
something that we know what we're dealing with and how we approach it and it takes all of us to do that so we've tried to help to educate ourselves as well as you all now I have charged leaders from just about every sector in this city every time I get a chance to talk to address one of the most difficult challenges not only facing our city the cities all across America and that's housing of folks who have been involved in our justices believe it or not though the barriers that they face a very similar to barriers that are faced by our elderly population as well as our neighbors who have
disabilities they look very much alike in the barriers that are out there in terms of housing so we have had some of the ivy league folks to come in along with Michael Bloomberg who started uh see the leadership Initiative for Mayors we are a legacy City I am the second mayor mayor Steve Shore was the first to be involved in that and normally you're supposed to kind of do sort of a a program or or a project well that's not what Durham let's take a look at we are doing hard work the why and the how and so we have been selected to participate in the seven seven month Innovation track to take a critical look at the barriers to safe and affordable
housing experienced by Justice involved individuals through this program this team of 12. you see them and some of them are here tonight I'm gonna ask them to stand in a second they have been spending hours per week they had to have a commitment we had to have a commitment from these folk that they would take about 12 to 12 I think it's five hours a week five hours a week over this seven month period to delve deep into this issue so they spent time talking with residents with lived experiences they're talking to Long landlords and they're talking to service providers so we can co-create solutions that could address this serious Community challenge I'd ask those people those persons those
sheros and heroes who are part of that initiative to stand so that folk can see you [Applause] on that team from the city I have to thank Miss Amber Wade and Chief of Staff called Misha Wallace who have been leading that charge they've put in a lot of time all of these folk put in a lot of time in trying to wrestle and confront and deal with head-on one of the most pressing issues that we have in our nation not just in Durham city but we have chosen to tackle it so we are hoping to have some opportunity before the end of the year to come back and tell you what they're going to be
asking not only the city to do the county to do but for all the Durham citizens to do so we're working on housing now let's look at the next plot which is work everybody needs to be able to sustain their lifestyle and not everybody needs a five hundred thousand dollar house not everybody needs a job that pays a half million dollars either some of us do very well but we need to have an opportunity to work so that's that's the mechanism by which our residents sustain housing our motor Transportation it supports the basic needs of your families so we have to make it important that we the city continues to to devote resources in and to both increasing the number of
families sustaining jobs and into the training and skills development of our Workforce we must think critically about Opera Opera realization I can't even say it we have to think critically about how we have a responsive Workforce Development system that connects our youth unemployed I dislocated or underemployed residence to employees there has to be a system in that block to make those things happen let's talk about youth works tell you a little bit that's going on with our young people this year 863 young people expressed an interest in participating in our Durham youth Works program we're excited to report that 729 of those you have enrolled
I started as a child as a city employee working for Durham city this tree continues so this work continues to be transformative for our youth in our city but the city can't do this alone no way we have about 17 000 plus young people in Durham public schools in middle and high school so you see what the numbers look like we can't hire all of our kids who need an opportunity but I am honored to announce it Duke University through its office of Durham and Community Affairs has agreed to a historic and generous partnership with our youth work programs and now I'm asking each of you especially in our business Community to do the same over 700 youth have stepped up and
spoken they are not asking for a handout they're asking for a hand up our youth Works team will equip these aspiring young people with the essential work Readiness skills they need to ensure their workplace success so I implore our business Community to rise to the challenge to hire host and contr contribute to this movement business partners these Bright Lights represent your future and our future Workforce please this summer summer's coming give them the opportunity to realize their career goals and you too will reap the benefits of a skill Talent pipeline that guarantees our success
com and help us out I was talking to our city managers the other day she indicated that she wanted to double our numbers for the summer which will put it us at about one thousand but you heard the 17 000. it's in the age range so we're gonna do our part but we're asking you all to do to help us as well now our Workforce Development Division also continues in our Workforce representatives are here tonight they continue to work to align the employment needs of our local businesses with the entire Durham Talent pipeline even those facing enormous challenges and barriers to employment through work based learning training and skill building we continue to build the capacity of our Workforce our NC Works
career center offers support to both employers employers and those seeking employment having provided get this 11 318 services to employers and 35 756 services to job Seekers to date and that is a small Department that's a lot of numbers so we think we think the NC Works career center for all that they're doing the city of Durham in partnership with the Durham Workforce Development board continues to Foster interagency and interlocal Partnerships that successfully build the employability of our Workforce especially those in our most vulnerable population such as those facing disabilities veterans and our Justice involved Community we have to ensure equitable and share prosperity to all of our
Durham citizens and so this is a key priority for this Administration likewise Durham small business and so small business owner ecosystem is essential to our local economy these businesses and the owners create local jobs give back to our local community cultivate Innovation and growth and contribute to a unified and welcoming Community identity providing technical assistance to local businesses in our community is critical to our communities success and since early 2022 oewd has worked with triangle artworks to implement three cohort style technical assistance programs focused on teaching independent early career artists how to make a profitable business product from their craft we will also have we hope very soon
the regional director for the southern region for the SBA Administration who will come to Durham for a town hall and we were partnering with several of our businesses to make that a two-day event we hope with him being here and letting us know where our federal government can help our small business administration where our federal government through its SBA Administration can help our small businesses so stay tuned for that we've also implemented our first ever technical assistance program targeted to the Hispanic Latino community upon the conclusion of this pilot program we received a set of detailed recommendations that will guide our engagement with the Hispanic Latino business Community moving forward this year we also launched our micro
Enterprise business development program this technical assistance program facilitated by local experts included a Finance and Accounting skills course participants who completed the program had an opportunity to apply for direct grant funding for their businesses the Durham small business opportunity Loan Fund a partnership effort with Durham County and Carolina Small Business Development Fund we continue to provide financial support to local firms this year we reached the Milestone of one million dollars in lending lending distribution to Durham small businesses the city has enthusiastically championed Durham's many diverse businesses business owners and contractors by supporting sponsoring and attending Community party events such as take Stars startup weekend the black
business Suite the Hispanic contractors association annual Brilliance Awards Gala and many more we also know that after work it's time to play time to play we all know the importance of having convenient and high quality places for our residents particularly for our youth to play reinvesting in our neighborhoods through the addition of facilities and recreational activities has been in emphasis this year Durham Parks and Recreation has dedicated 40 million dollars to build new parks or renovate existing parts in East Durham over the last five years this includes the Redevelopment of the former Wheels fund Park site to include a skating ring and
and adjacent outdoor Aquatics facility last month just a few weeks ago we celebrated the opening of the Durham Bulls Miracle League in downtown Durham it's a beautiful day the new Miracle League field celebrates Durham's value of inclusivity by creating a space where Youth and adults and special needs with a special needs can fully enjoy playing baseball and other recreational activities and I got a chance to witness that it was a beautiful thing it is also conveniently close to JJ Henderson that was brilliant how they planned that and the Joyce which will allow the seniors to be interactive in that space right so they have a place to get exercise and stay healthy and watch our young people and our neighbors out there doing their
thing on the baseball field that was brilliant that idea was brilliant I wish I could take credit for that but I can't it was already diverse so undiscovering much of our um much of our ability to live work and play is also transportation you gotta have transportation so you have to have an equitable and a convenience system of transportation to to give us get us to Schools jobs Recreation Health Care many other crucial components of life you can't play with other people outside of your neighborhood if you don't have a way to get there you can't visit some of these Parks if you don't have a way to get there and so we know that for many Durham residents we know that transportation is a barrier to to accessing employment Education Health Care basic needs such as the
grocery store going to the grocery store our transit system is a critical tool to connect our underserved residents with these opportunities we know that among our gold Durham Riders more than 80 percent are people of color more than 70 percent have incomes below 25 000. dollars a year in more than two-thirds live in households without access to a car for the last three years we've made Transit Fair free making it simple and convenient we hope for Riders while saving money the money is is cost for everything else keeps going up as we enter deliberations on our next year's budget I am prepared to support a continuation of Fair free service thank you we also know that you know some of our
residents need specialized Transportation assistance and one example of how we're trying to meet those needs is the go Durham access senior shuttle this shuttle provides a scheduled service from Durham Housing Authority senior community such as price steel plays JJ Henderson to local grocery stores and in 2022 this initiative provided more than 2 700 free trips to make it easy for seniors to get fresh food so they can stay healthy and active [Applause] as I was um preparing for today and I'm getting ready to close in a few minutes I remember several comments made by Coach K as the city council honored him upon his retirement and coach Trey Oliver of nccu's national
championship team as we honored the team and Coach K doing some recent Council meetings both successful coaches spoke about the value of their teams of student athletes coming together with One Vision to achieve a successful outcome being a successful City is not unlike a team coming together to win a championship I believe when we all work together when we all work together in the same direction staying focused greatness will follow last year I asked you to volunteer for five hours for those of you who responded to my call for Action thank you if you haven't please consider the urgency is now now is the time to pitch in being of service to our community is essential for Durham to continue to grow
April is National volunteer month and it is urgent that we act now to ensure there's opportunity for Equity growth and safety for all Durham residents each month I've tried to present and have presented a proclamation for a specific virtue these virtues are reminders of the values that as a community and as individuals we need to embrace to make our city a beacon to all kindness patience Grace thankfulness gratefulness courage fortitude and this month peace working together on one Accord is how we address the urgency of now those are my scripted comments but I do want to end with a few personal comments
as I've thought about over the last year of my life I've always been committed to try to make sure that the experience I've had in this great city is not a unique one it is due to each and every one of our children that they can grow up in this in the city they can be educated in this city and then they can turn around and serve their city and I've tried to do that but I'm not the only one and I introduce you last year to some young men that we have called the reformers but there are some others who stand with them and who have stood with them and I'd just like to give you an update because there have been a lot of volunteers who have worked behind the scenes
and some of them are very familiar to you they left their government positions and they became volunteers one is one of my very great sister friends chief judge at that time and still is my chief Pat Evans serving on the city council for a number of years who's still out there volunteering former councilwoman jacket West yeah still volunteering Lisa Jones who was a federal
a federal reward who's also the sister of Dr Henry McCord relocated to Durham North Carolina and got to work immediately with our former police chief Steve Chalmers you've probably heard it and if you haven't it's called Justice reborn and they say it's not a movement it's not a program it's a movement but it's been a movement that's been surrounding all of these men and time I'm not going to forget you who also works for the city who's been volunteer her time stand up young lady working in the county thank you but I wanna I wanna I wanna
let you know that where there's a will and there's a way and we've always got to have hope I don't care and it hope outlasts Generations there are a couple of things that we know Outlast people who sit and see us racism will Outlast just continues on all kinds of isms Outlast the hope is to sustain them and it gives us the ability to understand that we can transcend all of those things when you have committed volunteers and folk who are willing to change their lives when they've been given the opportunity so I want you to see these young men that you saw last year Mr Dennis Garrett who who runs love and respect
all of the young men that I call our reformers stand up here let me tell you a little bit about what judge is talking about nobody has gotten a new charge nobody we've had some some landlords who have stepped forward and who have given them an opportunity to have a place to stay and rent they have been out in the community at night working using the money that they have to put back in the community they do it while we're sleeping when I look at them
first of all I have to say I know there's a God I'd say that [Applause] but I know the hope Rings true they have changed their lives and they wanted to and they have and they are helping each and every day other young people changed their lives so that's why I'm here as your mail that's why I decided to run for this office to let you know that we all given an opportunity can really make this the city where all of our residents live work and play well together I encourage you all to let's not let anyone else's child
have to die on the streets of Durham North Carolina I got a call yesterday I'm in church and it was one of my sister-in-laws I said I gotta call you back I'm in church call me when you get up she said the only latest name who's a family member the father of her two kids have been killed in the apartment in front of the kids foreign and they were all shaken as we all were it's not the first time for my family that's like the third time for my family we have to figure out why our young people are killing each other and we're gonna have to take ownership of that you cannot be afraid of the streets of
Durham we are not miracle workers all of us up here especially the elected officials this is a part-time job by state statute part-time I guarantee you that each of us put in full-time hours plus on this job so we're doing our volunteer hours I would never ask you to do something that I wouldn't be willing to do or haven't done but you all have to help us the numbers don't add up we have 355 000 approximately Durham citizens we have 2500 city employees you cannot expect your governments to do it all and a lot of times we are reacting to an incident it has to come from our neighbors and from in within the communities so I encourage you tonight
to think about how you are going to help make these streets of Durham safe for all of us to live work and play we'll sit strong everybody you have to have a meeting you're going to take five minutes and we'll be ready to do it let's take a five minute break y'all be ready to get to the people's business
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com tell me what is so exciting about being a firefighter how do you like it uh well I love it so it's it's the family I'm a big family person so it's the the family atmosphere that you get um in the firehouse um especially it's from day one it takes a little bit to get accepted if you will but I mean you have to earn your way earn your spot so to speak but once you've kind of proven yourself then that you can depend on these people at least men and women to have your back and um
it's very teen oriented to anyone who's grown up playing sports I think they were thrive in this atmosphere um and it's the cause it's the people that um it's not always the the big calls or you know the fires or the EMS calls this the simple you know you're driving back from the grocery store or wherever and there's kids on the street and they just wave at you and they want you to honk the Hornets stuff like that that makes you smile and makes you happy We the People Nosotros te Gente o hum Sab log We the People hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal and shall be afforded the inalienable right to fair housing the city of Durham and HUD are committed to ensuring that everyone is treated equitably when searching for a place to call home
all right everybody [Music] and the babies in there my Mike ain't know hello hey baby hello all right everybody we're going to resume the people's business I'm hello okay all right
we are now back in session everybody thank you all for coming tonight and we will continue on and I am now turning our attention to announcements by Council and we will start with a councilwoman Javiera Caballero and I would turn to you at this time thank you madam mayor good evening everyone [Music] trying to give everybody a chance to accept thank you
all right if you all could close that door for us thank you we're gonna try to get out of here before midnight thank you Madame mayor um good evening everyone um thank you I am flying out to Tucson for a family emergency on Wednesday and I am requesting excused absences for the following meetings Thursday the work Thursday's work session on April 20th uh council's meeting on May 1st council's work session on May 4th um council's council meeting on May 15th and council's work session on May 18th all right and is there a motion so moved second it's been moved by councilwoman Freeman and seconded by councilwoman I'm a councilman Leonardo Williams all those in favor would you Simon just saying aye aye all those opposed have same right here in none your absences are excused and we wish
you safe travels as you thank you madam mayor are there any other announcements on this end councilwoman Freeman yes thank you madam mayor I just wanted to appreciate the state of the city and just say that you know that I'm here in support and um know that we've got a lot of work ahead of us I didn't want to just take a moment and share that next week I'll be in Concord for the national uh the North Carolina League of municipalities women admissible women and Municipal governments annual meeting and I in hopes I'm sharing today in hopes of kind of building some support around the national women's meeting being in Charlotte in August and so the national league of cities women and municipal government will have um thousands of women from across the country who are serving on councils or working and municipal government coming
to Charlotte North Carolina we want to support our national president who is here in North Carolina August the 9th through the 11th and so I'll be reaching out to folks trying to make sure that we line up enough sponsorships including City support for that and that's all thank you thank you councilwoman Freeman I'll turn to my left now see if there any announcements uh councilwoman Jose Harmon yes uh good evening to my colleagues to the residents of Durham I also too want to share the sentiment with Council woman Freeman I think the mayor for her address tonight to be able to kind of look at the things that we need to work for in with in Durham and I just it's just a pleasure to serve when someone who's a Visionary transformational leader and I too would like to just say that I am with you in your support of us trying to just have Durham be a place where we can work play and get things done so I appreciate that thank you so much any other
announcements councilman Leonardo Williams I thank you madam mayor and uh congratulations on your second state of the city I personally appreciate the way you break it down uh government is very very complicated to follow and I thank you for uh breaking it down so everyone can really understand and then provide a vision on a way forward and tying it to our principals of being able to live work and play so thank you for that um I like all of you got the email from councilmember Javiera Caballero and that I think that was sort of the the tip of the iceberg from well not tip of Iceberg but the Tipping Point for me to um as I've been wrestling with this whole scad thing paying close attention in the community uh listening to proponents and opponents and uh this is probably going to make everybody else upset as well but I am going to ask that we hold off on this document uh until we can have everybody here after talking to
staff and that needed more time to work with both sides of this argument talking to both sides and it's still just unsettled personally I'm ready to go but out there spending some time on it if everybody's not ready to address this then I don't think we should go for it yet so uh I would prefer that we uh as the presidents that we set we wait until everyone is here um just wanted to put that out there and I don't know how we move forward with it but thank you councilman Leonardo Williams is there okay go ahead one more thing and um I'm going with councilmember Freeman next week I'm not a woman and I'm not going to fit into meetings with them but I look forward to supporting what she's trying to do and bring in all of that business to North Carolina and uh hopefully you know we'll get a bigger Convention Center one day and be able to host it here in Durham so uh I got you back thank you thank you and thank you all for your kind remarks about the state of the city uh tonight it is
m at the same place at Holton so we ask you all to please come out and participate in these conversations uh with that being said I think councilman Leonardo Williams the scab vote is not coming before the council I believe until May 1st so are you asking that it be put off from there is that what you're asking yeah uh since um councilman recovery you did requested me first off right as well
so we're not going to have a full Council but more so for me after just talking to staff and trying to really make a product out of this big policy between you know folks in the community that are foreign against if staff is asking for that time and you know um I didn't attend the Saturday meeting but I did hear about it there's a lot of contention in this uh in this discussion that I think it's it's it's our it's up to us to do to due diligence to make sure we can have a sound conversation around it so thank you I was at part of that meeting as well on Saturday um and I do believe that um on this Saturday they have asked to the city to come back our planning department will not and they are neutral but they will come in to explain the document that they have provided to us in terms of doing that analysis I too have heard um folks who I've heard Terror because
one is that we put it off until the Udo is actually a pass and then come back and do it and I've also heard the request from a lot of community members that we not take it up on May 1st I'm looking to attorney to see how do we consider it now I do I do think it is incumbent for all seven of us to be here whenever we hear it and so going uh today since we know that councilwoman Javiera Caballero will not be here could we go ahead and address that matter today in terms of a date for us to come back to it since she will not be here on May 1st I mean matamara I assume that it's already been published but I'm and planning director Sarah Young's going to join us okay um but sure I mean if the council if the will of the council is to postpone the hearing to a later date you can certainly do that and republish it okay
um I would have to defer to the administration on what would be good timing for that Miss Young good evening mayor I would say that looking at y'all's schedule if you did want to postpone it we could certainly you don't have to continue it it could be referred back to staff and we would just re-advertise from scratch um given the cases that we have lined up for the the few remaining Council meetings before the break I would say that if you all wanted to postpone it it should happen it should come back after the summer break that would be my recommendation to you all right and now is appropriate time to consider a motion for to refer back to council move thank you all right and we'll do this by clicker vote it's been moved by um sorry you mean back to staff refer it back to South
um it's moved by councilwoman Freeman seconded by councilman Leonardo Williams Madam clerk interview opened a vote to refer back to staff we will now close to vote and Report out please the motion passes unanimously thank you thank you all all right we'll now move to our priority items um from our city manager City attorney and city clerk who we have in it good evening Madam mayor and members of the Durham city council the city manager's office has no priority items this evening thank you thank you manager page turn down to attorney Robert good evening Madam mayor members of the city council the city attorney's office also has no priority items thank you attorney Marie Berg I turned to our city
clerk I understand good evening Madam mayor and council members the city clerk's office has no items this evening you all made that quite easy all right we now turn to our consent agenda which is our next order of business excuse me the consent agenda consists of items that the council has previously considered on a workstation all items on the consent agenda may be approved by a single vote of the council items may be removed from the consent agenda by a council member or a member of the public and those items will be considered separately at the end of the meeting tonight and I am now going to read through our entire agenda beginning with item number one which is the Durham City County Environmental Affairs board appointment two mayor's Hispanic Latino committee appointment number three Durham right workers Rights Commission appointments item four human relations commission
appointment number five is the Durham Convention Center Authority appointment item six the Durham Planning Commission appointment Madam mayor I would like to have that item pulled I'm sorry I'd like to have the item pulled right thank you item seven is the Raleigh Durham Airport Authority mayoral appointment item eight is the mayor's Council for women appointment item nine is a resolution to support designation of temporary protective status for Guatemalans at a mayor I'd like to pull that we're pulling that item 10. is the Durham city county appearance commission inter-local agreement renewal 11. it's a resolution authorizing the Virtual City auction
item 12. contract for cultural roadmap development with AMS planning and research number 13 the Second Amendment to the Professional Services contract with Timmons Group Inc for the East Club Boulevard sidewalk project 14. A hauling and utilities LLC for the sidewalk gaps three project item 15 Construction Services contract with Chatham civil Contracting LLC for the Beechwood Cemetery Expansion Project project sorry item 16. it's the ordinance amending Durham city code section 70 that's 687 and adding section 70-691 private drainage assistance hardship program item 17 Municipal agreement with ncdot for bike lane vertical protection tip number bl-0030
18. it's a contract amendment 2 the professional Engineering Services contract with Hazen and Sawyer PC for the East Durham Water and Sewer Rehabilitation and belt Street Regional storm water improvements project phase 1B item 19. by the mayor I didn't want to pull it but I did want to note that that is in my neighborhood which is the award of midterm contract for both aluminum sulfite to CNS chemicals item 20 is the ward of service contract to try area land Works limited Limited liability company for the grounds maintenance services for sanitary sewer lift stations and various remote water sites projects item 25. this is the contract amendment number three to the professional
Engineering Services contract with Kimberly horn and Associates Inc for the Lakewood Avenue sewer and nc-54 water line replacements turning now to our general business agenda it's item 21 is the Consolidated annexation for 4501 Glen Road we have one person here to speak on that which will be pool old 21. and we have one person online as well speak on that so we'll pull the item item 22. is the unified development ordinance text Amendment improving access and walkability item 23 is the unified development ordinance text Amendment regarding waste
receptacles and the last item 24 is the revisions to the Durham city code section 70-736 through 7 70-744 stormwater performance standards for development and I would now like to entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda second the move by councilman Leonardo Williams and let's see let's see I'm sorry I forgot to tell you which ones we pull 6 9 21 correct 21 is probably here all right thank you all right so it has been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams seconded by councilwoman Javiera Caballero Madame clerk if you will open the vote if you were closed a vote
S Carrboro Town Council has already passed their resolution I think that uh they pass it tomorrow thank you um and I think the City of Raleigh is also considering passing a resolution similar to this and the idea is to get communities across the United States to pass resolutions in support of our
Guatemalan neighbors so that they can get TPS status temporary protective status and it's to elevate the issue for the Biden Administration so at this time I would like to invite the community members up who are here to go ahead and come up to the microphone and the the folks who are here I'm pleased to say that we have the Guatemalan Consul Jorge archila Ruiz here and also the association and they will be reading the resolution both in Spanish and English and then I think if possible getting a picture with Council and I just want to thank Judith Montenegro and Anita from valencias America for bringing this to the city of Durham
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[Music] good evening everyone my name is my Denny Morales and I am a member of the association of the United Guatemalans of North Carolina ah there you go thank you okay so um the resolution to support designation of temporary protected status for Guatemalans whereas the city of Durham is committed to and maintains a long history of supporting celebrating and empowering immigrants of and refugees many of whom are escaping war and
natural disasters regardless of their immigration status and whereas temporary protected status TPS was created by Congress in 1990 as a form of immigration status and an administrative Authority used by the executive branch that provides employment authorization and protection from deportation for foreign Nationals who cannot safely return to their home countries and whereas since 1991 the United States has granted TPS to foreign Nationals of Africa from Africa Afghanistan Burma Cameron El Salvador Honduras Haiti Nepal Nicaragua Syria Sudan Somalia South Sudan jimin Venezuela and Ukraine and it has renewed their protected status every 18th month
since then Guatemala has not previously been designated for TPS and whereas Guatemalans are the sixth largest Hispanic group of the United States and the second largest Central American population after salvadorians Guatemalans are vulnerable and to deportation severing fam uh families relationships and possibly damaging our country's economic strength North Carolina is home to more than eighteen thousand Guatemalans and whereas it remains unsafe for Guatemalans to to return to their country because of the ongoing damage and recovery of the 2020 hurricanes gender-based violence organized crime discrimination and displacement among black and Indigenous Guatemalans and whereas in light of the increase of
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working more than 40 hours per week now therefore be a resolved that the Durham city council argues the Executive Office of the President of the United States to act immediately to designate TPS for Guatemala and calls on the Department of Homeland Security to Grant a TPS designation for Guatemalans currently reciting in the United States a program that provides support to family to people fleeing uncertainty natural disasters and violence be it further resolved that is that this resolution to be sent to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security the secretary of the Department of State the office of the Vice President of the United States the Executive Office of the President the leaders of both the Democratic and Republican Party of the United States home of Representatives
and of the United States Senate and the Office of the Attorney General thank you thank you thank you
thank you all so much good to see you thank you [Applause] thank you to my Council colleagues it means a lot thank you madam mayor and thank you councilmember Javiera Caballero I do want to just be um really pointed in stating that this issue with our Guatemalan brothers and sisters and folks in the community is specific specifically tied to how white supremacy works and just acknowledging that there are a few things in this country that I'm very ashamed of and our immigration system is one of them our failure to respond equitably to folks in a community who are black and Indigenous in our immigrant communities has been disgusting and I I can't stress enough how this resolution should be sent with a very strongly worded letter that speaks specifically to how the
Guatemalan Community has been continuously supported for their creativity you know continuously supported for their culture continuously supported for their create their ability to provide the labor in this country and not at the same time slap down on you know just protections from you know just knowing that your homes have been destroyed or that there's organized crime that creates the violence in your country and it's very clear to me that for our Central American immigrant countries it's very different than our more hispanic white passing countries and it's very clear to me that this is this is a an issue around race that has not been touched in a way that it needs to be and I want to make sure that I call in my black and Indigenous indigenous brothers and sisters of this country to to actually speak up and out against this because it's it's similar to that whole standing Rock conversation
it's the same thing as you know a young man ringing a doorbell and ending up in the hospital there's a reason that it happens this way and it's not because you you any one of you are not human just like us it is how white supremacy works and I just want to thank you for coming to tonight [Applause] councilwoman Kabir would you like to offer the motion so Ed thank you um could we please pass the emotion to accept the resolution on temporary protective status for Guatemalans second it has been moved and by councilwoman Javiera Caballero it has been seconded by councilman Leonardo Williams Madam clerk if you would open the vote if you will please close the vote and Report out she passes unanimously
thank you all not America I just say One Last Thing Before yes two things that I really want to highlight that I am extremely proud that the city of Durham um spends its local dollars on is our immigrant legal defense fund that is housed through Justice matters and that we share a position with the county and hopefully an actual office of immigrant and Refugee Affairs and the reason that these things are important in our community is because it shows with our money because we can pass every resolution we want we all know that Durham is a welcoming City we all know that we love our immigrant communities from all from all places but you know there's a saying show me you know show me your budget and I'll tell you what your values are and so that is actually one of the things that I want to say to all of our immigrant communities and Refugee communities in Durham is we are showing you what our values are with our money and I hope that we are able to do that this year thank you thank you all thank you all we now turn our attention to our public
hearings and so we will start with item 21 which is the Consolidated annexation 4501 Glen Road this is a zoning case and we will now receive our staff report from Ms Roper good evening good evening mayor O'Neill an honorable council members uh Brooke Roper with the planning department happy to be here with you tonight before I begin staff will like to State for the record that all planning department hearing items have been advertised and noticed in accordance with state and local law in affidavits of all notices are on file in the planning department a request for utility extension agreement voluntary annexation and initial zoning map change has been received from Patrick Kiernan on behalf of Matthew and Molly minor for one parcel of land totaling approximately eight acres and located at 4501 Glenn Road this annexation petition is not
contiguous to the primary corporate limits however is contiguous to a satellite area of the city limits the intent of the annexation is to connect to City Water and Sewer and facilitate the construction of a 17 single-family residential subdivision the property is currently designated very low density residential on the future land use map the proposed single-family subdivision zoning is consistent with the designated use shown on the future land use map however if the proposed zoning is approved staff recommend a change to the Future land use map designation from very low density residential to low density residential as RS10 already allows for four dwelling units per acre please note this future land use map redesignation recommendation is an update to the staff memo as part of this annexation petition the applicant is not seeking a change in the underlying underlying zoning District a
direct translational zoning is one in which the existing County zoning is translated to The Identical City Zoning District upon the annexation of their property into City Limits a translational zoning does not include a development plan and any future development May proceed according to what the zoning would allow while the current use of the property is undeveloped future development under existing zoning of residential Suburban 10 allows for agricultural activities residential development and limited Community Services in addition this area is in the Falls Jordan Lake District a watershed protection overlay the subdivision will have to meet the more stringent requirements of this critical watershed area as a reminder three emotions are required for this application the first is to adopt an ordinance annexing the property and entering into a utility extension agreement the second is to approve the zoning ordinance and the third is to approve the consistency
statement thank you staff and the applicant are available to answer any questions thank you Miss Roper you have heard the report from staff and I'm now going to declare this public hearing open first are there any questions for staff from members of the council thank you loan all right we will ask for our applicant to come forward it's good evening mayor O'Neill and members of the city council my name is Patrick Kiernan from Jones and kanasan engineering in Apex and I am here tonight representing Matthew and Molly minor in this annexation petition for 4501 Glen Road I'd like to start by saying thanks to Brooke Roper Alexander Cahill and the
rest of the city of Durham planning department for their help throughout the staff review portion of this annexation process this has been my first opportunity to work with the city of Durham staff members and I've been very grateful for all their assistance along the way as you just heard in Brooke's presentation we are proposing to Annex 4501 Glen Road into city of Durham jurisdiction to enable the development of a small 17 lot subdivision which would extend from and hopefully become a part of the Glenstone subdivision which falls in the lrb protected Watershed off Glen Road we believe the request is in keeping with the city's long-range planning as there is a currently a city of Durham public Street stubbed to the Western property line to which will be a requirement of our project to extend into our site um city of Durham sanitary sewer and water have both been stubbed to this property line as well creating the possibility for City Utilities to extend into our project area to facilitate a future annexation to go beyond the general reasons why
believe why we believe this is an appropriate location to request annexation we believe that the use product and design have been selected in the best interest of the adjoining Glenstone neighborhood the owners of this property Matthew and Molly minor are attempting to develop a proper the project themselves rather than to sell as they feel strongly about putting the right project in this location and they want to remain involved with with the design decisions to make sure that remains the case the owners actually live just a few hundred yards up Glen Road this is Matthew Miner by the way he's the owner of the project um but like I said they you know they live right up the road so the community that you know is potentially impacted by this development is his own community and because of that transparency has been very important um to him and his wife and you know I really do feel proud to help with the project that truly is attempting to keep the community in its interest from
Center um if this project is ultimately approved it is the owner's hope and intent to be absorbed into the Glenstone neighborhood by way of joining HOAs we will be working with Town staff to ensure the street Aesthetics seem continuous and intentional with the existing neighborhood and we will be providing single-family products that would be consistent with the existing neighborhood the intent is that everything from lot size product size and overall style of the home would be modeled off the existing homes and the discussions that my client has had with the HOA thus far have been very supportive and encouraging so we're optimistic that this merge will be possible with that I'll end my presentation and happily answer any questions you may have is there anything else you'd like to add um I didn't really prepare anything Madame mayor and council members but um I just wanted to say that um we've been working on this for for a
long time and it's something that we're I guess passionate about you don't you don't normally see a developer come in like this that lives there and and also um you know works here in Durham um so I think that's something unique maybe in special with this project is just that um it's kind of farm Zone people doing it so thank you thank you both we do have we'll we'll open the floor for questions from Council councilwoman joseon Hi how are you good evening hi um I think you said about 17 single-family homes yes ma'am right and and I know this is always a question that I hate to ask but in terms of like the range of price point um so we were discussing that earlier um but that was part of the intent of really matching the style that's out there we want to make sure that it fits you know it fits with the existing residences um so you know we're really going for very similar Styles but just new homes as opposed to you know the homes that
were built a few decades ago so in general I think you know it was about a 15 price increase from the existing homes to these new to these new build and that's consistent with just the you know the normal new new build versus existing home kind of price difference and I know you said you were part of the community but I just wanted to to also ask what was the community's feel on um the project because I know you said you've done some Community engagement and you are part of the community so I just wanted to explain sure um so we we met I actually held like a little like Town Hall kind of gathering in the Glenstone neighborhood at we have there's a small gazebo that we all met at I mean just invited everybody to come and there was um you know the HOA it's self the manager and the board is very supportive and wants us to become a part but obviously the community members also speak into that too and for the most part um there was I would say um disagreement on if we should be off Glenn Road like connect to Glen Road or not and I think you know we've we've discussed that and I've there's a strong
reason why it's best for the community for us not to connect to Glen Road as well just for through traffic and more traffic basically we want to try to limit traffic going through that neighborhood um other than that though you know we're going to be adding a playground people are excited about that because right now there are no amenities besides the Gazebo um so that will be open to all the kids in the whole neighborhood as well as uh I think it's about a half acre Park that we're gonna be putting in as well so yes ma'am sorry we I'm sorry about that that was a little out of order but come to my head not my heart Mr Chavis we have two persons um to speak on this matter one online is Mr Kenneth think but we do have Mr Chavis here who is uh to speak as an opponent on this matter Mr Chavis you would have three minutes and then Mr Fink we will come to you for your three minutes good afternoon to the city mayor with
that fine open remarks to us early and asking us to do something great to make Durham great and that's why I'm up here today I'm opposing this because number one we got so much problem going on with our planning department about these new construction especially when it's dealing about our water and our lakes and our screens you all don't think about the youth and what's going to happen to them when we are go wherever the water they're going to get we're having a water supply shortage now that y'all now y'all overlooking so this is not only if you've been at the Glen Road and I'm looking at each one of you city councilman and mayor I
don't think any of you've really been out there and seen how it is blooming not just coming up shortly but coming up fast quick and in a hurry and Council Halsey Hyman you asked a very good question how much is it going to cost for affordable housing out there and he couldn't give you a price but he'd give you a percentage looking at our market today how many folks can afford to move out there these are some of the things that we want the planned Department starting with us on Sergeant to be able to ask them with their outline structure of this new development part that did the planning department and the developer has brought up and we slowly started Saturday but it got turned around so that's another reason why I'm here because we were supposed to start our q a Saturday just on with planning asking
the question of how these ordinance was going to be changed what's the benefit and what's not the benefit the opponents have their time and the ones they want to accept it but we do not have that so this is why it's going to be a continuing just to be a Q and A for both sides to come Saturday and speak on those matters find out exactly what's going to be changed or added that would benefit or take away from the citizen of Durham so I'm asking you tonight take this into consideration as well do not pass this because we the people are done need to understand this more than just giving them an opportunity to put higher priced homes where I as a senior and those is making less than fifty thousand dollars can afford those houses thank you thank you Mr Chavis uh Mr Fink if you
are online Mr Kenneth Fink you have the floor sir for three minutes okay um can you hear me yes sir okay well good evening ladies and gentlemen of the council uh I've met Mr Miner and he's a he's a very nice gentleman and uh his layout is uh of buildings are pretty pretty nice homes um the only my my major concern is he isn't really uh addressed the parking not the parking but the traffic problems that this is going to encourage chimney Stone chimney Stone right now is a dead end Street and it um it has parking on both sides it's a neural Street there's just over 20 homes on it now and this is going to double almost double the amount of traffic
um that's gonna the Street's gonna incur uh so I I really think it's gonna it's gonna be a a bit of a safety hazard we have a lot of young families in the neighborhood and even more have moved there in the last few years so I don't know I with the people that are going to be living on this new development I they're gonna the only way they're gonna be able to get out onto Glen Road is going to go through our subdivision meaning chimney Stone to Glenstone Road and then exit out to Glen Road and I don't know I I was hoping that he was gonna put an entrance off of Glen Road so that these new residents would have an easy access to get in and out of their development and obviously he's not in favor of that and I was just wish he would address The increased traffic flow that is going to happen on Chimney Stone that's all
thank you Mr Fink I now turn back to Mr Kerman and Mr minor and I also will ask you to fill out those uh speaker cards once you're done but you will have time for rebuttal at this point if you'd like to do so I can talk first about Mr Chavis um thank you sir for sharing you know your concerns and um you know I I've felt it too you know I've been here not my whole life I can't claim that but I've been here you know for about 10 years um since about 2014 and if you know felt also the price increase of homes and I work in real estate I'm a real estate agent so I see it all the time and it's it's it can't get out of control for sure um so what what we're doing is we're not we're not going to be um building homes that are made for you know um that are like we because we could there's options you know when you're doing a development you can kind of do
whatever you know as long as it's you know within the rules and everything you know agrees um but we're not we're going to be building homes like kind just like in Glenstone my goal is for it to be a seamless transition down chimney Stone so you feel like you're in the same neighborhood it doesn't feel like an area that's like you know better um I wanna I want it to be very seamless um and then the price point is really based off I mean it's really hard for me to put an exact number on something that we're so far off from building um because of the price of building um so it's hard to to know exactly what things are going to cost but I will promise you that it's not going to be something you know it's going to be in line with everything that's normal so right now for example the last six months of Glenstone comps which are the recent sales in the Glenstone subdivision are what we're using so these are homes that sold in 2000 you know that sold um 2023 just the last couple months and these are homes that already selling and these are already comps that kind of represent the price of that neighborhood we're going right along with that in
fact the price per square foot that I use to to give um to kind of do my own numbers I just use the same price per square foot that they sold at I didn't even add the 15 15 you know obviously if you're buying something that's built in 2023 verse 20 you know 2008 um it's newer construction everything's new the roof the HVAC and it's going to sell more that's just you know how the market goes but we're not we're not we're not going to be like doing big upgrades or making like 3 000 square foot homes we're doing homes that are the same size as the homes that exist in Glenstone and they're going to look the same from the outside they're going to have the same kind of architectural details and the same so that's that's that's that's my goal I mean that's what I'm that's what that's what we're doing um so I I hope that addresses it and realize some of your concerns um and for I didn't get his last name but Mr Mr Fink okay I'll let you take it um so Mr Fink uh I appreciate your uh concerns and it's a great question and actually you know the way that we have been viewing it
is really kind of the opposite in the sense that there was initial discussions to possibly create the entrance off of Glen Road however the street stub the chimney Stone chimney um Street stub is there and we talked to the transportation department about would it be possible to leave that as a dead-end street stub and only come off of Glen Road and have sort of a isolated subdivision separate from Glenstone that was a possibility and it sorry that was not a possibility from the city city transportation department just because the street stub was there so the facts remained that the street sub was going to be extended so then the question was do we connect to Glen Road and create an additional cut through for the neighborhood which we thought would increase traffic along Stone chimney so for us to extend it into another cul-de-sac you know we're looking at it as a low impact with the 17 new homes versus there was
also a conversation about should this Go mixed residential and introduce town homes and higher density but due to the critical Watershed and just the desire to have a low impact development we didn't want to create more additional traffic than um kind of what would be inherent in just extending chimney Stone stem chimney sorry um okay sorry anyway that's that's my rebuttal thank you so much thank you I believe those are all the speakers that we have signed up for tonight looking in our clerk for confirmation for this item yes Madam Meredith those are all the individuals who signed up we do have two people in the queue with their hands up I didn't know if you wanted them to speak or not they're trying to pull it up
Mr Rush last name is furnace and Mr Barrick um Mr Barrick you have your hand raised miss the furnace our Mr bark listen let's start with you are you speaking for or against this particular item uh hello can you hear me yes sir uh hello uh Council uh yeah I guess I'm I'm kind of speaking uh against I'd say um I guess I have some questions about who um you know these homes will be sold to you know uh I guess my my hope would be that it would be you know maybe there could be some sort of Promise by the developers that you know this would be you know to kind of uh uh to families and maybe not you know uh like developers that would want to come in and you know rent out the houses but you know come into people who are also going to you know buy the
houses and and you know take care of their lots and that kind of thing um uh can uh think kind of uh touched on my other concern as far as just like traffic and um you know a lot of cars park on the side of the road um in in this neighborhood and in a lot of times the the sidewalk kind of goes over people's driveways and typically people will kind of park over the sidewalk so lots of times when you're walking around like with your dog or with your families and stuff um you're kind of forced to go into the street um as you're walking around kind of walk around people's cars and things like that um and then with the car on the street it just kind of you know space for like one person to kind of walk through so it just kind of gets kind of kind of hairy as far as traffic so um I guess I'm generally opposed to it but uh just kind of wondering what the developers thought about um selling it to families and not um you know people who are going to come in and you know buy them all out and rent out their homes that's it thank you right thank you for your comments tonight sir we will now turn to Mr
furnace Mr furnace are you speaking for against you would have about three minutes sir and if you would let us know whether you are speaking for against this action item can you all hear me yes I'm sorry man no no that's fine um hi madam mayor and um fellow council members uh I just it is Mrs rashaki furnace I am also a neighbor um to the two gentlemen that just spoke um as well as Matt minor I am I guess if I have to declare a side I would say opposed simply because of um what Mr Fink already spoke about the traffic safety we are all at that dead end um that was spoken about on Chimney Stone and um I'm also a member of the Glenstone
HOA board and I can speak to the fact that a lot of folks in the community are really concerned about traffic safety we have autistic families in this community um we you know I heard what Patrick said in regards to his rebuttal but I didn't hear you know what consideration was taken once we he they did hear from the community our concerns regarding um the entryway to the the new subdivision coming off of Glen Road is there a you know I'd like to know is there a reason why you know we can't do that he he said there was a reason why they preferred to do it another way but now hearing the you know the concerns of the community has there been any further consideration um towards not having the entryway go through this very narrow Street
um where there are children in the community and again autistic uh uh families in the community um it's a real safety concern it's a real safety concern and it's and it's not just a handful of folks in the community that are concerned about it and I can speak to that because I do serve on the board so I think um I'm I'm for the development um I think Matt's approach uh with keeping you know maintaining the um the size of the homes being pretty consistent was was already in the community as well as working with the board to um do some type of you know playground or something of that nature I think that's great uh but I I just we really want to express our concerns about the traffic safety that's it thank you and I'd like to um ask if our applicant would have a response I just want to remind the
general public who are at home that our process requires that we give time equal time to both sides and it is important that we try to adhere and and would urge our um folks who are at home on the internet to please please please please please sign up to speak um before two o'clock I believe I'll ask our clerk to give you that information but it is important because we are mandated to keep time equally and if you come to the meeting and I know you want to speak it throws off kind of how we're trying to keep track of things so if you can please remind all your neighbors all your friends that if you would like to speak I'm doing a hearing a public hearing if you would please and you're going to do it from at home which we encourage that you please please please
sign up before the two o'clock hour the day of the meeting I did allow um for Mr Fink I'm sorry for yeah from the last two persons to speak but you had not signed up so I'm being generous tonight but please it causes it throws things off so now I will turn back for further rebuttal and will ask our clerk to to give them time to equal things out um thank you madam mayor um I guess first to address Mr Fink's um question I would tell you my intention would not be to want to sell it to anybody who's going to rent the properties out I live in this neighborhood you know in this area as well and also don't you know prefer people who who will be owning these homes around you guys because um I know you guys Own Your Homes and and there's some sense of stability that comes along with that that you appreciate um but I will say that I don't have
control over um there are fair housing laws that you know obviously we all need to follow in terms of choosing you know a specific buyer based on family status and family is one of the um you know protected areas that you know you can't really choose who you're going to pick based on their family status so um I'm not sure if that answers it but you know I I I share your feelings though about about you know not making it like a big rental cul-de-sac or something like that thank you so much um and then I was gonna um just for Shockey um I I also hear your concerns and um I would say um if you thinking through this you know I I am right now glennstone um is a primary thoroughfare that exits out to Glenn and and and then there's there's one other I forgot the name of that street but there's only two entrances to this neighborhood that has 210 houses currently so so we're adding 17 more
um on you know on the end of Chimney Stone and if we made a third thoroughfare that connected to Glenn I think you're gonna find that actually there's a lot more traffic that's going to end up coming down that way who want to end up going um North on Glenn they would take chimney Stone to get out because it's you know it's closer and quicker so instead of just the residents using that street um that was that was our reasoning for it um because you know you're right there there are kids and my kids ride their bikes in that neighborhood too and um obviously you know I want everybody to be safe so I hope that that answers your question thank you all right thank you all I will now declare the public hearing to be closed and this matter is back before the council all right and there are there any questions or comments from Council councilman Leonardo Williams yeah thank you uh for bringing this application
um and thank you to the neighbors and community members who've spoken we have I mean for let me start this coming off with we can't force you to do anything um but we do have a housing crisis and anytime there's someone that's willing to contribute to helping us solve that I appreciate it um we also can't force you to make anything affordable or can't dictate your pricing structure I appreciate you explaining the um the defeatability of a building what I would like to uh see if you've consider not everything we build can be affordable and I'll say that any day however everything we build in the culture that we're trying to promote here um there I I'd love to see some contribution to some factor of affordability so it may not be you building your unit but contributing to something around that so I'm not saying my vote is based on that I'm just saying
you're you're your Durham guy and as you're building and helping us contribute to this housing crisis and this affordability crisis have you considered any factor of the multiple Avenues in which we try to address affordability in Durham and that could be from building a unit to donate it to the affordable housing Loan Fund to whatever I'm not certain of all the Avenues that are available to developer to help with that but I would be open to that for sure yeah testing and part of this might be you know some of my inexperience with Durham um you know this being an annexation rather than say like a conditional zoning or something that I'm used to where you have the opportunity to add certain conditions to accompany the annexation or zoning I didn't know if that was something that we had the
opportunity to do with this annexation so we didn't have the conversation necessarily of you know building in a percentage of the homes to 80 or 100 Ami or something to that effect or donate into an affordability fund you know whether or not Matt is willing to do that you know I I would love the opportunity to have that discussion um you know I would I would hate for the vote to be influenced one way or another if we didn't if he didn't know that he had the opportunity to do so if that makes sense considering that comment I want to clarify because it's illegal for us to force you to do that so I'm not saying that the vote is waiting on that it's just that that is part of the culture that we're promoting Durham I guess not an informally but um yeah I guess the best we can say right now is that we will definitely Entertain You know definitely look into it uh if if granted the approval here tonight thank you any other comments or questions from
Council I think our planning director was going to address that very question so that they knew clearly how they could contribute if they'd like yes just as a reminder the applicant is correct this does not have a development plan it's just a translational initial zoning and so there is not a mechanism to proper or commit to something although we certainly will work with people if they would like to do that aside from that mechanism thank you councilman Freeman thank you Madame I would just say that this particular site because it's a satellite location and it's a sensitive area this makes sense just noting that the 17 additional on that stub I know that folks may not like having additional homes on that end but I do think that the not opening it up to Glen Glen Road is I've been in this area
quite a bit um opening it up to Glen Road would prevent as much traffic just cutting through because there is traffic on Glen Road and so um I do think that the stub is is the right way to go I do think that the 17 homes is a lot but I can man I can bear with that I am concerned about the pricing just acknowledging that it's not going to be affordable housing at all it's going to be market rate and whatever the market will bear because that'll be it'll be very competitive to get into that Community it's already established this is not the this is not the space to do affordable housing but it is a space to um build out our road structure and so I would be supportive of this moving forward I will say that um it's it's mainly because it's in that Jordan Lake Watershed and you're offering a low density project it's more the reason why I'm supportive of it or not that's all thank you
any other comments from Council all right colleagues we have three motions for your consideration this evening in regards to this item agenda item motion number one is to adopt an ordinance annexing 4501 Glen Road into the city of Durham effective June 30th 2023 and to authorize the city manager to enter into a utility extension agreement with Matthew and Molly minor removed I kept it's been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams second number councilwoman Freeman uh Madam clerk if you will open to vote thank you if you will close the vote and Report out the motion passes five to one with council member Halsey Halsey Hyman voting no the second motion for our consideration is motion is to adopt an ordinance in many unified development ordinance by
taking property out of the residential Suburban dash 10 rs-10 follow slash Jordan District AF slash J A County jurisdiction and establishing the same as residential Suburban 10 rs-10 follow slash Jordan District a f j dash a city jurisdiction promo second been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams second amendment by Council councilman Friedman Madam clerk if you open a vote if you close the vote and Report out please and the motion passes five to one with council member Halsey Halsey Hyman voting no the third motion for our consideration is to adopt a consistency statement is requiring ncgs160d-605. second been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams uh seconded by councilman Freeman Madam clerk if we open the vote
if you will close the vote and Report out and the motion passes six to zero thank you we are going to take a 10-minute recess for our closed captioning audience uh folks who are providing close captioning we'll come back in but I do want to address one thing before that do we do that we have a dejan de Najee coffee on the uh internet I believe and There Is No Agenda item assigned um to the item that you want to speak to miss coffee if you are just speaking in general I see you're a social work student if you're not have don't have an agenda item she's not no longer there all right thank you all right we're staying in recess for 10 minutes thank you
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thank you all right everybody okay we're now coming back in session okay and we will now take a a look at item 22 which is the unified development ordinance text Amendment improving access and walkability this is a public hearing and we will hear from our staff Miss Roper Miss Roper
apologies uh Brooke Roper with the city County Planning Department the improving access and walkability text amendment tc21 quadruple07 is a change to the unified development ordinance initiated by Planning Commission with the goal of making a more connected Community the Durham Planning Commission initiated the amendment during the summer of 2021 and formed a subcommittee to put a draft Amendment forward at the July 2021 Planning Commission meeting Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution to initiate what was formerly called The Block length text Amendment over 2022 planning staff have carried out research to create a draft amendment that has gone through numerous revisions by other city and county staff along with members of the Durham bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee the draft was also shared with the growth management social pinpoint site for a two-month-long engagement period which was followed by further Amendment
adjustments based on what was heard the engagement summary may be seen in attachment C to achieve the goal of making a more connected Community the amendment proposes various rules for developers which would limit the length of streets and promote more pedestrian connections to nearby existing Networks the amendment includes updates to the existing connectivity ratio which is a street links divided by nodes that ensures developers are providing sufficient Road and pedestrian networks within new developments and adequately connecting to adjacent areas the amendment also includes a new block length component which limits the allowed length of the streets or street blocks that developers can build to help ensure our communities are built to human scale closely connected and walkable the final draft was presented to jccpc on February 1st 2023 where they unanimously agreed to send it forward through the public hearing process at
the February 28th Planning Commission meeting the commission recommended approval by a vote of twelve to zero two motions are before you tonight the first is to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance incorporating revisions to article 12 13 15 and 17 effective June 1st 2023 the second motion is to adopt the appropriate consistency statement thank you staff are available for any questions thank you Miss Roper you've heard the report from Miss Roper and I'm now going to declare this public hearing open first are there any questions for Miss Robo or staff or members of the council councilwoman Freeman thank you I just wanted to uh just take a moment and thank our Planning Commission for taking the initiative to address this text Amendment and just say that I think it looks great and I'm ready to move forward thank you any questions comments on this end thank you all so much
we have one person online to speak as a proponent tonight and that will be Mr John Talmadge Mr Tallmadge you have the floor and you have three minutes sir hi thank you can you hear me yes sir are you able to hear me yes sir we are we can hear you this is a town Mitch can you hear me we can hear you sir oh we did hear you Mr Thomas could you see if you can unmute yourself Sarah
he's gone do you see him still on the he's gone all right I will now declare the public hearing to be closed and the matter is now back before Council if there are any questions uh not really a I'm sorry a comments go ahead uh just a quick comment I I just appreciate this as well it aligns with uh some of the comments shared at a recent press conference uh around uh just trying to do Street safety differently uh as I stated then that our roads and highways have served rural North Carolina and Suburban North Carolina very well and now it's time for our needs as our needs are evolving in the urban areas it's time for our transportation to do so as well and I just appreciate not only we're talking about it but being about it in the city of Durham so thank you councilman Leonardo Williams
councilwoman caballera thank you madam bear I just wanted to say that I was happy to see this on our agenda this evening and also just to Mr John Tallman was on earlier and I just wanted to thank him for sending us the petition signers there were 358 individuals who signed in support of the walkability amendment that was sent to us by bike Durham and I just wanted to acknowledge that since he was not able to make any comments this evening thank you thank you any other comments from Council all right colleagues we have two motions for your consideration for this item the first motion is to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance incorporating revisions to article 12 infrastructure and public improvements Article 13 additional requirements for subdivisions Article 15 enforcement in article 17 definitions effective June 1st
2023. move second the move by councilman Leonardo Williams seconded by councilwoman Jose Halsey Hyman Madam clerk if you open the vote if you close the vote and Report out the motion passes 6-0 the second motion for our consideration is to adopt the appropriate consistency statement as required per ncgs 160 d-605 second it's been um moved by councilwoman Jose Halsey Hyman seconded by a councilman Leonardo Williams Madam clerk if you open the vote if you were close to vote and Report out please and the motion passes 6-0 thank you all we now turn our attention to item number 23 which is also a public
hearing a zoning public hearing excuse me and that is the unified development ordinance text Amendment regarding pest pit waste receptacles and we will hear from staff at this time good evening y'all hold on just a moment I've hidden my my script won't go very well if I do that um good evening my name is Jessica Dockery I'm a planning manager with the Durham City County Planning Department this evening I am presenting information about our proposed unified development ordinance text Amendment case d t c 22 quadruple zero six which was initiated by staff from several City departments working on the implementation of a total maximum daily loads or tmdl response plan completed in
2019. this was heard by the jccpc at their February 1st meeting and by the Planning Commission at their March 14th meeting with a unanimous recommendation for approval as development continues in Durham runoff from impervious surfaces washes pollutants such as pet waste which can cause bacterial contamination from fecal coliform bacteria and sediment which causes turbidity in water bodies these pollutants end up in the drinking water supply so tmdls have been established to ensure safe levels when tmdls are exceeded plans to reduce those are necessary Durham County bodies of water of particular concern are Northeast Creek and third Fork Creek Northeast Creek is
impaired due to excessive fecal coliform bacteria from the digestive systems of warm-blooded animals which does include pets third Court Fork Creek is impaired by high levels of turbidity caused primarily by erosion in streams and due to earth-moving activities the city of Durham completed a tmdl response plan in 2019 that focuses specifically on tmdls and third fork and Northeast creeks however tmdls affect the many water bodies throughout the county the proposed requirements for pet waste receptacles will assist with implementation of the Northeast Creek Watershed Improvement plan efforts to address fecal coliform bacteria while also protecting other watersheds from similar bacterial contamination the primary sections of the unified development ordinance that will be affected by this text Amendment are articles 7 and 9.
article 7 includes design standards for open space and residential developments as well as standards for utility and solid waste collection facilities in all developments these standards will be revised to require pet waste receptacles at the trailheads of all Greenways and trails for new development the solid waste collection facilities section in this article will be the most significantly altered to require pet waste receptacles to be installed in residential developments in an effort to lower the amount of fecal coliform bacteria in runoff article 9 includes standards for landscaping and buffering including screening requirements for solid waste collection facilities pet waste receptacles will be exempt from the screening requirement the most extensive change to the Udo text is shown here pet waste receptacles will need to be placed on Homeowner Association owned land in open space areas
at least two receptacles shall be provided for developments with 90 or fewer dwelling units and for developments with 91 or more units at least three shall be provided the receptacles will be maintained and emptied by the HOA per open space maintenance agreements established in the HOA agreements which must be recorded for site plan approval thank you and staff is available if there are any questions thank you so much you have heard the report from staff and I'm now going to declare this public hearing open uh first are there any questions for staff from members of the council councilwoman Freeman just a request to share those slides specifically that's all any other questions from the council I don't believe we have any speakers for this particular item therefore I will now declare the public hearing to be closed and the matter is
back before the council are there any other comments or questions regarding this item all right we have two motions for your consideration colleagues the first is a motion to adopt an ordinance amending the Durham unified development ordinance incorporating revisions to article 7 design standards and article 9 landscaping and buffering effective May 1 2023 so been moved by councilwoman Jose Harmon seconded by councilman Leonardo Williams Madam clerk if you open the vote will close the vote and Report out the motion passes unanimously the second motion for our consideration is to adopt the appropriate consistency statement as required for it per ncgs-160d-605 so move second it's been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams second number councilwoman councilwoman Jose
Halsey Hyman Madam clerk if you open a vote if you would also close the vote and Report out and the second motion passes unanimously thank you all we will now turn our attention to item 24 which is also a public this public hearing is also a zoning case which is the revisions to the Durham city code section 70 that's 7 3 6 through 70 that's 744 stormwater performance standards for development and we will receive the staff report at this time thank you good evening Madam mayor O'Neill and Council I am akina canola of the public works department this item proposes to amend the city stormwater ordinance to comply with the re-adopted news nutrient strategy the adopted news nutrient strategy
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stormwater performance standards for development thank you very much staff is available for any questions so much uh you have heard the report from staff and I'm now going to declare this public hearing open are there any questions for staff from members of the council councilwoman Freeman okay thank you I just wanted to to encourage the engagement of the NIS with the public with essentially just making sure they're engaged and they know that those comments will be requested from the community thank you Madam clerk I do not believe we have any speakers for this particular item all right thank you I will now declare the public hearing to be closed and the matter is back before the council are there any comments or questions from the
council at this point all right we have two motions for our consideration colleagues the first is to conduct a public hearing to receive public comment on proposed revisions to Durham city code section 70-736-70-744 second it's been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams and second number by councilwoman Freeman I'm Madam clerk if you open the vote if you were close to vote please and Report out and the motion passes six to zero the second motion for our consideration is to adopt an ordinance amending the Durham city code section 70 through 736-70-744 stormwater performance standards for development second it's been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams
seconded by councilwoman Freeman Madam clerk if we will open the vote if you will please close the vote and Report out and the second motion passes 6-0 thank you so much we will now turn our attention to the pooled item by councilwoman Freeman which is the Durham item number six the Durham Planning Commission appointment you have the floor man thank you madam mayor I just wanted to raise up the concern that the council appointment is a resident of Cary and I wanted to just um note that there were a number of applicants who actually live in the city of Durham and I wasn't quite sure if the work address was in RTP rather than in the city of Dern but I would like to get verification of that because I do believe that you're supposed to be a city resident or work within the city limits council member Freeman we just looked up
the address that was listed on the application and it is new construction and it is located within the city of Durham thank you all right is a motion for this particular item second it's been moved by councilman Leonardo Williams and seconded by councilwoman Johnson Madam clerk if you would open the vote and if you will close the vote I'm going to report out the motion passes six to zero thank you all so much I believe that we have come to the end of our agenda are there any other matters to come before the council councilman Leonardo Williams real quick uh mayor again when councilmember Freeman was talking earlier about her being on the women's commission for um it's the national end state or is it
it's both right so the North Carolina oh goodness League of municipalities annual meeting or well annual convention is also next week and within that the North Carolina women and municipal government will be meeting as well great so I just wanted to highlight how Durham has really impacting the state of North Carolina in the league for those who don't know really has a lot of impact on how the general assembly views uh our state and uh may approach to Middleton next we'll next week at the convention will be installed that's the first vice president you've heard councilmember Freeman's position and councilmember Monique healthy Harmon is our national Regional director and I also sit on the board of directors for the league for North Carolina as well so Durham is overwhelmingly represented in how we affect the state of North Carolina so I just wanted to highlight that if I could add to that I also serve on
the federal advocacy for transportation infrastructure and then also on the racial equity and Leadership all of that thank you thank you colleagues are there any further announcements tonight just one um question regarding our day of remembrance I just want to get a thumbs up on moving forward from folks about making sure that we can get that on the agenda for Monday May well for May 1st so we can get a pass before the 15th thumbs up not thumbs up all right anything further you sure okay all righty I just want to remind everybody that I will be traveling to a conference on uh tomorrow so I will not be with you at the work session councilwoman uh Johnson will be leading that meeting and we will see you all uh in a couple of weeks I also know that peace is a lifestyle blue city is strong
we are hereby adjourned at 9 55 on Monday April 17th have a good great week everybody depression