>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL HERE, AND I SEE A FEW FUTURE MAYORS AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE AUDIENCE; THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AS WELL, YOUNG PEOPLE. GOING TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 7:00 P.M. IF YOU'LL JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE. THANK YO. AT THIS TIME I'LL PASS IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. >> THANK YOU. IT'S OUR PRACTICE TO STAND TO SALUTE THE FLAG TO SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN US.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> THANK YOU. Madam Clerk, WILL YOU PLEASE.
CALL THE ROLL? >> GOOD EVENING. >> MAYOR WILLIAMS. >> HERE. >> MAYOR PRO TEM MIDDLETON. >> HERE. >> COUNCIL MEMBER BAKER. >> HERE. >> Javiera Caballero. >> HERE. >> COUNCIL MEMBER COOK. >> COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. >> PRESENT. >> COUNCIL MEMBER RIST. >> HERE. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR CEREMONIAL ITEMS. FIRST UP IS TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX AWARENESS DAY PROCLAMATION: THIS WILL BE WITH READ BY COUNCIL MEMBER RIST. >> GOOD EVENING.
LIKE TO CAL FOLKS FORWARD. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION FOR TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX AWARENESS DAY PROCLAMATION: WHEREAS, TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX (TSC) IS A RARE GENETIC DISORDER THAT LEADS TO THE GROWTH OF NON-CANCEROUS (BENIGN) TUMORS IN VITAL ORGANS, INCLUDING THE BRAIN, HEART, KIDNEYS, SKIN, LIVER, AND LUNGS; AND WHEREAS, APPROXIMATELY 50,000 AMERICANS AND ONE MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ARE LIVING WITH TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX, A DISEASE THAT CURRENTLY HAS NO CURE. TSC IS A LEADING GENETIC CAUSE OF BOTH EPILEPSY AND AUTISM, WITH VARYING DEGREES OF SEVERITY IN THOSE AFFECTED; AND WHEREAS, TSC AFFECTS INDIVIDUALS DIFFERENTLY, WITH SOME EXPERIENCING SEVERE COMPLICATIONS AND OTHERS REMAINING UNDIAGNOSED DUE TO MILD SYMPTOMS.
TSC CAN RESULT FROM A RANDOM GENETIC MUTATION OR BE INHERITED THROUGH FAMILY LINES; AND WHEREAS, THE IMPACT OF TSC CAN LEAD TO LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS, INCLUDING BRAIN FLUID BUILDUP, HEART ISSUES, KIDNEY DAMAGE, LUNG FAILURE, INCREASED RISK OF CANCEROUS GROWTHS, AND VISION IMPAIRMENT; AND WHEREAS, THE PREVALENCE OF TSC IS COMPARABLE TO OTHER WELL-KNOWN CONDITIONS SUCH AS LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE (ALS) AND CYSTIC FIBROSIS, UNDERSCORING THE NEED FOR GREATER AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING; AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF DURHAM IS COMMITTED TO RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX, SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH TSC, AND ADVOCATING FOR CONTINUED RESEARCH AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, LEONARDO WILLIAMS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM MAY 15TH 2025, AS TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX AWARENESS DAY IN THE CITY OF DURHAM AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO OBSERVE THIS MONTH WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES, ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE CORPORATE SEAL OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, THIS THE 21ST DAY OF APRIL 2025. >> THANK YOU CITY OF DURHAM FOR OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMING MAY 15th AT TSC PROCLAMATION DAY. YOUR SUPPORT BRINGS AWARENESS TO TSC AND HELPS FAMILIES LIKE OURS.
OUR DAUGHTERLIES WITH TSC THAT CAUSES TUMORS TO FORM IN VITAL ORGANS SUCH AS BRAINS, KIDNEY, HEARTS, LUNGS. CAN LEAD TO SEIZURES, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, AUTISM AND OTHER SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES. EVERY BIT OF AWARENESS HELPS MOVE US CLOSER TO BETTER TREATMENT AND ONE DAY A CURE. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AT TANGLEWOOD PARK ON MAY 3rd FOR OUR TSC WALK, A DAY OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND HOPE. THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH US ANDED WTH N O.
AND WITH NORA. >> WHAT WAS THE LOCATION OF THAT AGAIN? >> CLEMENTS OUTSIDE F OF WINCETON SALEM? O OKAY, COOL. >> ALL RIGHT. IF I CAN HAVE LAURA TO COME UP. YOU SEE HOW I DID THAT? YOU'RE GOING HAVE ARE TO SAY YOUR LAST NAME. I HAVE THE HONOR OF READING COMMUNITY PARTNER DEVELOPMENT COURSE GRADUATION RECOGNITION WILL BE -- LAURA BIEDIGER WILL BE ACCEPTING THIS ON BEHALF F OF NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT SERVICES AND I'M EXCITED TO RECOGNIZE HARD WORK AND DEDICATION OF 17 GRADUATES INCLUDING THREE SPANISH-SPEAK RESIDENCE.
EQUIPS THEM TO HELP DRIVE CHANGE IN DURHAM. NOW TIS IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT SKILL SET TO DEVELOP BECAUSE WE'RE ALWAYS SEEKING GRANTS AND WE'RE ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, DURHAM IS A COMMUNITY WHERE WE DO LOTS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOMETIMES SO MUCH THAT WE THINK THAT'S THE ACTUAL PROJECT. JUST LETS YOU KNOW WE CARE ABOUT INPUT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS. SO WANT TO NOT ONLY THANK YOU ALL BUT ACTUALLY BRNG THEM UP TO BE RECOGNIZED. I'LL PASS IT OVER TO O YOU. ALL RIGHT, GRDUATES, COME ON UP.
>> WHILE DO THAT, I'LL START READING. GOOD EVENING, IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO STAND HERE TODAY AND RKNISE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OF 2024-2025 GRADUATES OF THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM REFLECTING OUR SHARED COMMITMENT TO I BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES THROUGH EDUCATION, COLLABORATION AND ACTION. SINCE ITS INCEPTION COMMUNITY PARTNER DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE EMBODIED VALUES IN A BLUEPRINT FOSTERING INCLUSIVITY AND EMPOWERING RESIDENTS TO BECOME ACTIVE LEADERS IN SHAPING FUTURE OF OF DURHAM. THIS IS OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT SERVICES. IT PROVIDES DURHAM RESIDENTS WITH COMMUNITY-BUILDING TOOLS AT NO COST.
OVER THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS THIS IS YEAR'S COHORT HAS -- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND PROJECT DESIGN. THESE HAVE ENGAGED AUTHENTICALLY, NAVIGATE COMPLEX SYSTEM AND ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE. EACH OF THESE PROJECTS REPRESENTS NOT JUST A VISION BUT A COMMITMENT TO ACTION LED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR COMMUNITIES UNIQUE CHALLENGES ABOPPORTUNITIES. THIS EVENING AS WE PRESENT CERTIFICATES WE CELEBRATE NOT ONLY THEIR HARD WORK BUT ALSO THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO BUILDING A MORE EQUITABLE AND CONNECTED DURHAM. THESE COMMUNITY LEADERS ARE THE HEART OF OUR CITY'S PROGRESS AND THEIR EFFORTS REMIND US THAT MEANINGFUL CHANGE BEGINS WITH ENGAGED AND INUH FORMED RESIDENTS.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE GRADUATES. WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE HOW YOUR LEADERSHIP WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT DURHAM. THANK YOU TO NIS STAFF, NCCU AND ALL INSTRUCT CHORS AND PARTNERS WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE. YOU'RE INSPIRING. LET US TAKE A MOMENT TO HONOR THIS COHORT. >> THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. SO WHEN FOLKS ARE LOOKING FOR GRANT WRITERS 'CUZ I GET THAT A LOT. DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT CAN WRITE A GRAT? I KNOW WHERE TO SEND THEM SO YOU CAN GET SOME GOOD PART-TIME MONEY ON THAT. ALL RIGHT.
SINCE VI THE MIKE, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE WITH OUR NEXT ITEM RECOGNIZING FAIR HOUSING MONTH. SO BETTER WOODALL, DURHAM REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS. ARE YOU BERT? TODAY VI THE HONOR OF RADDING A PROCLAMATION HERE. FAIR HOUSING MONTH PROCLAMATION: WHEREAS, THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, ENACTED ON APRIL 11, 1968, ENSHRINED INTO FEDERAL LAW THE GOAL OF ELIMINATING RACIAL SEGREGATION AND ENDING HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN THE US; AND WHEREAS, THE FAIR HOUSING ACT PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, FAMILIAL STATUS, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AND DISABILITY, AND COMMITS RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL FUNDING TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING IN THEIR COMMUNITIES; AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF DURHAM IS COMMITTED TO THE MISSION AND INTENT OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FAIR AND EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES, FOR ALL; AND WHEREAS, OUR SOCIAL FABRIC, THE ECONOMY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ARE STRENGTHENED IN DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES.
MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, DISCRIMINATION PERSISTS, AND MANY COMMUNITIES REMAIN SEGREGATED; AND WHEREAS, ACTS OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND BARRIERS TO EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND REPUGNANT TO COMMON SENSE OF DECENCY AND FAIRNESS. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LEONARDO WILLIAMS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 2025, AS FAIR HOUSING MONTH IN THE CITY OF DURHAM AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO OBSERVE THIS MONTH WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES, ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE CORPORATE SEAL OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, THIS THE 21ST DAY OF APRIL 2025.
I'LL ADD TO THAT THAT WE SHOULD REALLY TAKE THE WORDS IN THIS PROCLAMATION TO HEART, AND LET THESE WORD SYMBOLIZE OUR VALUES AND HOW WE LIVE DAY-TO-DAY. WE WON'T BE REDERAILED BY POLITICAL TURBULENCE TO FALL AWAY FROM WHAT THIS ACTUALLY MEANS AND ANYONE THAT'S LISTENING IN THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, I HOPE THEY'RE LISTENING HARD. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. I'M THE CURRENT PRESIDENT T OF THE DURHAM REGIONAL ASSOCIATION F OF REALTORS ON BEHALF OF ALMOST 1,500 REALTORS IN THE DURHAM REGIONAL ASSOCIATION I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING APRIL AT FAIR HOUSING MONTH.
REALTORS IN THIS COMMUNITY WORK EVERY DAY TO ENSURE HOUSING IS DONE FAIRLY. OUR CODE OF E ETHICS HAS DESPAIRED F OF FAIR HOUSING WOVEN THROUGHOUT IT. WE'VE ADDED REQUIREMENT THAT EVERY RELATIVE TAKE A MANDATORY EDUCATION CASS RELATED TO FAR HOUSING EVERY FOUR YEARS. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME THIS EVENING AND THE DURHAM REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU.
>> TO HIS HONOR AND HONORABLE COLLEAGUES TO EVERYONE IN THE ROOM, IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION IN KEEPING WITH THE COMMUNITY THEME, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK AND I'LL ASK Shanetta Burris TO JOIN ME. PROCLAMATION: WHEREAS,THE WEEK OF APRIL 21 THROUGH APRIL 25, 2025, HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK BY THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION TO CELEBRATE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM AND THE HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME); AND WHEREAS, SINCE 1975, THE CDBG PROGRAM HAS PROVIDED ANNUAL FUNDING AND FLEXIBILITY TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO PROVIDE DECENT, SAFE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, A SUITABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES TO LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME PEOPLE; AND WHEREAS, SINCE 1992, THE HOME PROGRAM HAS PROVIDED FUNDING TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO CREATE DECENT, SAFE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS WITH OVER ONE MILLION UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAVING BEEN COMPLETED NATIONALLY USING HOME FUNDS; AND WHEREAS, OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, THE CITY OF DURHAM HAS RECEIVED A TOTAL OF $10,300,951 IN CDBG FUNDS, AND $6,036,942.45 IN HOME FUNDS; AND.
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF DURHAM, HAS USED CDBG AND HOME FUNDS DIRECTLY OR IN PARTNERSHIPS TO ADDRESS ISSUES SURROUNDING HOMELESSNESS, TO DEVELOP AND PRESERVE HUNDREDS OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS FOR LOW- AND VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS, TO HELP REVITALIZE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND TO LEVERAGE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ADDITIONAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT WITHIN DURHAM NEIGHBORHOODS. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LEONARDO WILLIAMS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 21ST TO APRIL 25TH 2025, AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK IN THE CITY OF DURHAM AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO OBSERVE THESE TWO VALUABLE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE MADE A TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE VITALITY OF THE CITY'S HOUSING STOCK, INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC SERVICES AND THE ECONOMIC VITALITY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE CORPORATE SEAL OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, THIS THE 21ST DAY OF APRIL 2025. >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. I'M Shanetta Burris, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND I ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF DURHAM'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND OUR CITIZEN ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND I'LL ASK MEMBERS TO COME UP AND JOIN ME. THANK YOU. FIRST LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE FACTS ABOUT NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK. IT WAS CREATED IN 1986 BY THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY ASOCIATION THAT'S NCDAA GRASSROOTS EFFORT TO O BRING NATIONAL ATTENTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS PROGRAM JUST IN CASE YOU DID KNOW AND A LOT OF US MIGHT NOT KNOW THAT KRSHG DBG WAS 50 YEARS OLD LAST YEAR -- CDBG.
HUD CELEBRATED CDBG FUNDING LAST YEAR. THE OBJECT OF NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK IS TO EDUCATE CONGRESS, ELECTED OFFICIALS ON THE IMPORTANCE F OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS AND HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROMS FUNDING, IT'S IMPACT ON COMMUNITY THE AND NEED FOR ALWAYS INCREASE FUNDING. THIS YEAR NCBA DEZ IG KATED APRIL 21st F-25th, 2025 AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK. A FEW FACTS ABOUT DURHAM. OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS THE CITY OF DURHAM HAS RECEIVED OVER $10 MILLION IN CDBG FUNDING OVER 6 MLDZ IN HOME FUNDING.
TO CELEBRATE THS YEAR T COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS SUPPORTING FOUR EVENTS TO RECOGNIZE CDBG AND HOME FUNDS. THIS IS THE FIRST EVENT, THE PROCLAMATION THAT DECLARES APRIL 21st-25th, 2025, NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK. THE SECOND IS CDBG AND HOME EVENT TAKING PLACE P ON APRIL 22ND, 2025, AT THE XHAUNTY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. CITY OFFICIALS, STAFF, CAC MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE INVITED TO AN OPEN HOUSE WHERE WE WILL FILL OUT POST PARD CARDS TO SEND TO CONGRESS ABOUT THE WAY CDBG AND HOME FUNDING HAS MADE A POSITIVE IMPACT IN DURHAM.
THE THIRD IS RELEASE OF INTERACTIVE GIS STORY BOARD THAT HIGHLIGHTS CDBG AND HOME FUNDED PROJECTS THROUGHOUT DURHAM. THIS WILL BE FEATURES ON OUR WEB SITE BEGINNING APRIL 24TH, 205. THE FOURTH EVENT IS CELEBRATION OF REINVESTMENT PARTNERS, MAPLE CREEK APARTMENTS ON 25th, 2025. FUNDING SUPPORTED REHABILITATION OF 42 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS. THESE EVENTS COULD NOT BE ABLE WITHOUT THE EFFORTS OF OUR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I HAVE MEMBERS STANDING UP HERE WITH ME. THEIR GOAL IS TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY O OF LIFE OF THE CITIZENS OF DURHAM AND DURHAM COUNTY BY ADVISING CITY COUNCIL AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON HOUSING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS THAT ASSIST LOW AND MODERATE-INCOME FAMILIES.
THE COMMITTEES CONSIST OF 15 MEMBERS 12 WHICH ARE APPOINTED BY CITY COUNCIL. THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE OFFICIALS INCLUDE AVAN ALFORD, RASHOKI FURNACE, AND SHAROD JOHNSON. THANK YOU. >> THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HEAR FROM COUNCIL. COUNCIL MEMBER COOK. >> HELLO. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I THINK ALL OF THE GRADUATES STEPPED OUT BUT CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM AS WELL AND GOOD EVENING TO FOLKS WATCHING AT HOME. I'LL TRY AND BE BRIEF BECAUSE WE HAVE QUITE A LOT ON AGENDA THIS EVENING.
BUT IT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY A RELATIVELY BUSY PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS SO I JUST WANT TO SAY A FEW THINGS. THE FIRST IS THAT A COUPLE DAYS AGO ENDED MY VERY FAVORITE HOLIDAY WHICH IS PASSOVER. THIS IS A TIME THAT THE JEWS REMEMBER OUR EXODUS FROM THE NARROW PLACE AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND A LOT F OF TIME THINKING ABOUT FOLKS WHO ARE STILL NOT FREE AND WHAT FREEDOM MEANS AND TO REFLECT ON THE FACT WE REALLY CAN'T BE FREE WHILE OTHERS ARE STILL CONFINED.
SO THINKING A LOT THIS YEAR ABOUT FOLKS TAT HAVE BEEN DISAPPEARED THE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES WITHOUT DUE PROCESS. THINKING AS WELL ABOUT HEALTH CARE WORKERS, JOURNALIST THAT ARE BEING BOMBED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA, AND HOW CONNECTED WE ARE TO THE GLOBAL POPULATION. WE TALK A LOT ABOUT, WHERE WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF FUNDING CUTS AND THIS BODY RECENTLY PASSED A RESOLUTION AND WE REALLY CELEBRATE OUR CONNECTION TO THE GLOBAL WORLD AND SOY THINK THIS IS A REALLY -- SO I THINK THIS IS A REALLY NICE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A REFLECTION ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO EXIST AND HOW WE ARE RESTRAINED WHILE OTHERS ARE BEING KEPT FROM THEIR FREEDOM.
L, AND IN KEEPING WITH THAT, I ALSO WANT TO SEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THOSE WHO ARE, MOURNING THE LOSS OF POPE FRANCIS TODAY. I KNOW THAT WAS A FELT LIKE A SURPRISE. I KNOW HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR A FEW MONTHS THEN QUITE A LOT OF APPEARANCES FROM HIM. REALLY GREAT ADVOCATE FOR THE VULNERABLE AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IN THE END HIS LIFE HE WAS SPENDING NIGHTLY CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS IN GAZA AND WISHED FOR PALESTINE TO BE FREE WITH HIS LAST BREATH.
SO A REALLY INCREDIBLE AND IMPACTFUL FIGURE AND I HOPE HIS MEMORY IS A BLESSING FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW. THE THIRD THING IS THAT I REAL CENTLY HAD OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO ELMIRA TENNIS COURTS AND WAS TALKING TO COLLEAGUES ABOUT THIS ON THE WY DOWN HERE. WHAT AN AWESOME COURT SYSTEM. I DO NOT PLAY TENNIS BECAUSE I TRIED A FEW YEARS AGO AND IMMEDIATELY TORE MY ACHILLES SO I'M IMPRESSED, BUT I MET FOLKS WHO WERE STUDENTS, YOUNG PEOPLE ALL THE WAY UP INTO THEIR 80s WHO ARE PLAYING AT ELMIRA TENNIS COURTS AN CONTINUING A LEGACY OF BLACK EXCELLENCE IN TENNIS THAT STARTED ACROSS THE WAY WITH A TENNIS CENTER THAT WAS STARTED IN 1922.
SO DURING SEGREGATION, AND LOTS AND LOTS OF FAMOUS TENNIS PLAYERS WENT THROUGH THERE AND COMPETED THERE AND THAT LEGACY CONTINUES AT ELMIRA TENNIS COURTS TODY. SOME PEOPLE LITERALLY I LIKE CHILDREN OF THOSE PLAYERS STILL PLAYING THERE TODAY. THAT IS GOING TO BE A PRIORITY OF MINE MOVING FORWARD INTO BUDGET SEASON. THAT REQUEST HAS BEEN MADE FOR OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, AND I ALSO WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS AND SO THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE A QUESTION FOR STAFF TO ADDRESS AT LATER TIME THAT THERE WAS A CONVERSATION ON GOING ABOUT INVESTMENTS ON THE FAYETTEVILLE CORRIDOR AND HAYTI AND WE WERE MAPPING THOSE OUT INTERACTIVE TO SEE THE MONEY IN THE PROJECTS THAT WERE GOING ON THERE.
I REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS A LINK SENT OUT BACK NEIGHBOR THE FALL, SEPTEMBER OR SO, AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE THAT WENT, SO I WOULD LO TO FOLLOW UP WITH THAT SO GET A CLEARER PICTURE OF WAT INVESTMENTS ARE GOING ON AND MAKE SURE FOLKS HAVE THE ABILITY TO COLLABORATE IN THAT SPACE AND USE THOSE FUNDS, TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY. SO, FOURTH IS THAT I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO A CELEBRATION FOR EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH AT THE MUSEUM OF LIFE AN SCIENCE.
TWO THINGS I REALLY LOVE DEARLY AND I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH. IS AN AMAZING DURHAM ORGANIZATION. I THINK THEY HAVE FOUR OR FIVE STAFF MEMBERS. IT'S NOT LARGE BUT THEIR IMPACT IS REALLY I GREAT. THEY ARE WORKING ON SUPPORTING BLACK FAMILIES AND BLACK BIRTH WORKERS AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS, AND SO IT WAS A REALLY COOL OPPORTUNITY TO MEET LOTS OF PEOPLE IN THAT SPACE. I MET LOTS OF FOLKS DOING LACTATION CONSULTING AN OTHER SUPPORT AND THEY JUST GIVE MONETARY GIFTS TO FOLK WHO IS NEED THEM AND WHAT WE SEE IS THAT OBVIOUSLY A LOT F OF THINGS THAT IMPACT FAMILIES ARE THE SAME THINGS I SEE IN EVICTION COURT AND SO IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION AND I KNOW IT HAS IMPACT IN THE COMMUNITY.
SHOUT THEM OUT AND THANK THEM. THEN FINALLY I HAD A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BUXOM AT DURHAM TECH, AND WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT PROJECTS THAT ARE ONGOING THERE AND SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITY COLLABORATION. THERE IS AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT THAT'S GOING UP NEARBY AND THEY'RE ALSO WORKING ON SOME TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES AND REORGANIZATION TO MAKE THE CAMPUS A LITTLE BIT ALREADY COHESIVE. I'M EXCITED TO SEE THE CHANGES GOING ON AT DURHAM TECH. THEY ALSO ARE FOCUSING O ON COMPLETION AND MAKING SURE FOLKS LEAVING THAT PROGRAM OR THOSE PROGRAMS HAVE NOT ONLY JOBS BUT LIKE ACTUALLY SUSTAINABLE LIVING WAGE JOBS, AND I THINK PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CLIMATE THAT FEELS SO, SO IMPORTANT, SO, WE LOVE OUR LOCAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE.
I FEEL LIKE THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME CITY COLLABORATION THERE AS WELL. SO, THANK YOU. THAT IS ALL. >> THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BAKER. >> THANK YOU. IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE EVERYONE IN THE ROOM. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US AND FOR EVERYONE WATCHING AT HOME; THANK YOU ALL. AS WE ALL KNOW, MANY OFTHE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL ARE IMPACTING US AND SOMETIMES IN VERY DIRECT WAYS BUT CERTAINLY IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
ONE OF THOSE WAYS THAT WE'RE BEING IMPACTED NEGATIVELY IS FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS. SO ON FRIDAY I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE PAULI MUR RAY CENTER, A WONDERFUL SPACE IN DURHAM -- I'D ENCOURAGE TO YOU GO AND VISIT -- LATER IN THE AFTERNOON COUPLE HOURS F AFTER I VISITED THE CENTER, LEARNED THEY WERE GOING TO BE LOSING $300,000 THAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY GOING BE RECEIVING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ONE OF MANY, MANY EXAMPLES OF THE WAYS OF THE DECISIONS BEING MADE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL ARE HURTING US VERY BADLY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
NOT JUST US BUT SMALL TOWNS, RURAL AREAS ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN WITH WONDERFUL GROUP HACKING INTO HISTORY. YOU CAN GO TO HACKING INTO HISTORY -- A GROUP OF DURHAM RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH AND LOOKING AT COVENANTS, COVENANTS TO PROPERTIES IN DURHAM AND LOOKING AT RACIALLY-BASED COVENANTS AND RACIAL COVENANTS AND HOW LAND OWNERS USED TO WRITE IN RESTRICTIONS DIRECTLY BASED UPON RACE ABOUT WHO COULD AND COULD NOT LIVE ON CERTAIN PROPERTIES. I THINK THE CONVERSATIONS THEY FOSTER IN THESE SPACES, PLEASE EVENTS ARE INTERESTING BECAUSE, YES, THEY INTRODUCE US TO HISTORY THAT WE KIND O KNEW ABOUT BUT THEY HAVE DUG IN AND FOUND MUCH MORE DETAIL ABOUT RACIAL COVENANTS IN OUR CITY, AND THERE ARE SOME GROUPS AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE DONE THE SAME THING, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE THE PRESENT-DAY VERSIONS OF THAT, THAT WE EXPERIENCE IN AN ONGOING MANNER THAT MIGHT BE MORE INVISIBLE AND LESS DIRECT LU THAT ARE VERY MUCH HAVING SIMILAR OR THE SAME IMPACTS AS.
THEY USED TO, AND SO JUST A COUPLE OF OF INTERESTING EVENTS THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU. EVERYTHING IS MUCH HARDER UNDER THE CURRENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND STATE GOVERNMENT. IT'S MUCH HARD TORE DO GREAT THINGS WHEN WEALTH IS BEING HOARDED BY A FEW WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS, AND WE ARE IN DEEP NEED OF RESOURCES TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES TO OUR RESIDENTS, SO WE'LL CONTINUE DO THAT WORK AT THE LOCAL LEVEL BUT EVERYTHING WE DO LOCALLY IS CONNECTED TO THE NATIONAL, IS CONNECTED TO STATE AND GLOBAL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU. Javiera Caballero. >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. GOOD TOO SE Y'ALL. I WANT TO FIRST SHOUT OUT OUR GRADUATES FROM EARLIER THIS EVENING. THAT IS I FEEL LIKE THAT MIGHT BE OUR FOURTH COHORT OF GRADUATES? AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO SHOUT OUT NIS ENGAGEMENT FOLKS BECAUSE THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE THINGS YOU BROUGHT FORWARD AND I LOVE TO SEE SO MANY RESIDENTS ENGAGED. I THINK IT'S WHAT OFTEN SETS DURHAM A PART IS WHO CARES HERE.
E WE HAVE A FESTIVAL COMING UP THIS WEEKEND, BISCUITS AND BANJOS. TONS OF THINGS TO PARTICIPATE FOLKS LOOK OT FOR INFORMATION AROUND THAT AND SEE HOW YOU CAN GO OUT AND BE IN COMMUNITY AND FINALLY I THINK IT'S OUR EARTH DAY FESTIVAL L IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN THIS-COMING SURD AT DURHAM CENTRAL PARK. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS TO GO I COMMUNITY AND SPEND TIME WITH NEIGHBORS IN A MOMENT WHERE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF STATE AND FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES, AS SOMEBODY WHO WAS RAISED CATHOLIC T DEATH O OF POPE FRANCIS, THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN POPE HAS HIT HOME.
HE WAS A BRIGHT SPOT IN A DARK TIME. HE WAS A JEZ WIT AND IF YOU ARE CATHOLIC AND YOU KNOW THE KIDS WHO WENT TO JEZ WIT SCHOOL, THEY'RE ALWAYS THE SMARTEST. THEY DID INCREDIBLE WORK AROUND EDUCATION, AND THE LAST PIECE I3 WANT TO LIFT UP, HE WAS A TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR IMMIGRANTS AROUND THE WORLD. IT IS HARD TO ACTUALLY I BE A CATHOLIC AND FULLY EMBRACE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE. CATHOLIC DOCTRINE IS BELIEF IN LIFE. IN THE U.S. PEOPLE FOCUS ON ABORTION BUT E GLOBALLY IS AROUND IMMIGRANT ON DEATH PENALTY, ON THE COMMITMENT TO SENIOR ISES AND POOR PEOPLE AND IMPRESS OF LIFE IN ALL STAGES AND NOT ABANDONMENT IN HUMANITY AND THAT'S A HARD THING TO DO IN MANY O OF OUR SYSTEM WHERE IS WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO EXPLOIT AND BRING FORWARD, I GUESS, THE MEANNESS IN HUMANITY.
I'M GOING THE END WITH THIS, BUT THE FIRST PROTEST I EVER WENT TO IN COLLEGE WAS FOR A PLACE CALLED THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. IF YOU KNOW YOUR LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY THIS IS NOTORIOUS PLACE THAT WAS BASED ON ARMY BASE IN GEORGIA. SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS TRAINED WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS FOLKS FROM LATIN AMERICA IN AL ALL TYPES OF O MILITARY AND OTHER TYPES OF TRAINING INCLUDING TORTURE TECHNIQUES. MANY GENERALS, ALL THROUGHOUT LATIN AMERICA WERE TRAINED AT THIS BASE AND THERE WAS A LONG-STANDING PROTEST TO GO EVERY YEAR, AND A LOT F OF THIS WAS TIED TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF L EL SALVADOR, OSCAR.
HE WAS GUNNED DOWN IN THE 80s WHILE SAYING MASS BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEF IN LIBERATION THEOLOGY WHICH IN KAT SLICK A BELIEF OF STANDING ON THE POOR WITH THE MARGINALIZE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT JESUS CALLED YOU TO DO. IT HAS A LOT OF SKIZ MS, BUT POPE FRANCIS ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO SAINTED OSCAR RAMIRO AND I THNK IT SPEAKS TO THE KIND OF POPE HE WAS, THE KIND OF WORLD HE WANTED. SO FOR THOSE OF US WHO WERE IN MOURN, I HOPE WE REFLECT ON THIS DARK MOMENT WE'RE IN AND WE LOOK TO HIM AND FOLKS LIKE THEM WHO GUIDE US AS TO HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY LIVE OUR LIVES IN SERVICE AND IN COMMUNITY OF OTHERS.
THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. >> THANK YOU. I WANT TO APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS OF MY COLLEAGUES AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT ALL THAT'S BEEN STATED. IT'S REALLY HARD, IN THESE TIME UHS, AND I FIND IT EVER, EVER-IMPACTFUL TO BE HERE WITH FOLKS WHO CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE WORLD. AND I'LL JUST LEAVE THAT, BUT I DID WANT TO JUST SAY THAT I LEFT FROM CCB PLAZA AND I'M IN A HEAVY SPACE BEING UP HERE AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT MR. GOOD HAS A CHILD AND A FAMILY THAT HE LEAVES BEHIND AND AS WE THINK ABOUT HOW HARD THINGS ARE AND THE WAY WITH THAT THE WORLD IS GOING, WE'VE GOT TO CHECK IN ON OUR PEOPLE.
I E MEAN, WE'VE GOT CHECK IN ON OUR PEOPLE. I DID WANT TO JUST, SAY THAT I KNOW WHAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OFFICE OF SURVIVOR CARE AND OUR COMMUNITY SAFETY DEPARTMENT -- I DON'T KNOW IF SUICIDE IS COVERED UNDER THAT BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT IS IF IT HAS NOT BEEN -- AND JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S LEFT, AS -- AS A FELLOW CHRISTIAN AS WELL THIS IS EASTER MONDAY FOR ME, AND THE LOSS OF A POPE, IT'S KIND OF THIS -- THERE'S A MOVEMENT OF THE SPIRIT THAT KEEPS OCCURRING IN EVERY TURN I CAN'T HELP BUT UNDERSTAND LIKE THERE'S THIS UNDERCURRENT OF HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER AND HOW WE TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER, AND. I JUST SHAKE MY HEAD.
I WANT TO ASK PEOPLE TO JUST KIND OF LEAN IN KNOWING THAT THERE ARE SO MANY WHO ARE AT THE EDGES, AT THE MARGINS WHETHER BY ABILITY, BY MENTAL HEALTH, BY WEALTH, THEIR STRUGGLES HAVE TO BE OURS AND WE HAVE TO WORK COLLECTIVELY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADDRESS IT, AND YEAH, JUST IN A HEAVY SPACE. I DID WANT TO JUST TOUCH ON, I DI APPRECIATE THE EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH DANCE PARTY. THAT WAS A LIGHT SPOT IN ALL OF THIS DARKNESS AND A CHANCE TO DO SOME LINE DANCING GOT ME PREPARED.
I DO WANT TO JUST SA A BIG SHOUTOUT TO MY OTHER HALF JUST CELEBRATE HIS 50th BIRTHDAY. AND IT'S REALLY REFLECTIVE, LIKE, OH GOSH, BUT, I AM, I'M HERE, I'M HERE, I'M HERE AND I'M JUST GOING TO LEAVE IT AT THAT. OH AND BEFORE I WRAP UP I DID WANT TO SAY A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBER MAYOR PRO TEM MIDDLETON AS WELL. >> COUNCIL MEMBER RIST. >> THANKS. GOOD EVENING. GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL. MY COLLEAGUES HAVE MENTIONED SO MANY THINGS I HA ON MY LIST.
I'LL SA A COUPLE THINGS. Y'ALL RAISED GREAT ISSUES, HEAVY ONES AS WELL, AS WELL AS SOME JOYFUL ONES AS WELL. FOR THOSE WHO CELEBRATE FAILT TRADITIONS, GREAT WEEK, BEAUTIFUL WEATHER, HOLY WEEK, PASSOVER. THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER COOK FOR THE MAZA DESSERT TREAT. SHOUT UHHOUT TO THE RESTORATION PLACE WHICH IS LEAD BY PASTOR ERIC SMITH THAT WORKS FOR DURHAM HOUSINGER AUTHORITY, ALSO THE CHURCH FOR MILLSON ROGERS. THEY INVITED ME TO COME SPEAK AT THEIR GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE. AN AMAZING SERVICE. THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION.
EASTER SUNDAY WAS A GREAT DAY. THEN WE HEAR THE DETH OF POPE FRANCIS WHO WAS TRULY AWE LEADER. HE'SES A UNIQUELY POWERFUL VOICE FOR THE POOR, A ONE-TIME LEADER FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH. SO WE'LL NEVER FORGET HIM. IN THE WORDS OF MATTHEW, WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. FRIDAY THE 11th, THE MAYOR SPOKE AT CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, DR. CARRY DIXON. WE'RE PROUD OF CENTRAL AND ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP OF DR. DIXON. BLESSED TO HAVE HER AS A LEADER IN DURHAM. I DID JOIN COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN AND COK IN THE MEETING WITH J.B. BUKSTON TO HEAR ABOUT DURHAM TECH.
CENTRAL PLAYER IN THE SCHOOL WORK PIPELINE. IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE KIDS HAVE SKILLS TO SUCCEED IN THE WORKPLACE. AS WAS SAID, NEW BUILDINGS, NEW HOUSING, WORKING ON TRAFFIC CALMING THERE IN LAWSON STREET TO MAKE IT MORE O OF A CAMPUS AND MORE OF A PLACE PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY NOT ONLY DO WORK BUT STAY AND COMMUNICATE AND BE WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. EXCITING WORK. GREAT THINGS TO COME FROM DURHAM TECH. DANCE PARTY FUNDRAISER WITH EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH WAS A TOTAL BLAST. JOY WAS A GREAT LEADER.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORK THEY DO. EXCITED ABOUT THEIR WORK. THEN HEART DOS GO OUT TO MR. ATRAYAS GOOD AND HIS FAMILY. WE USED TO WORK TOGETHER OVER IN THE, THE IN THE MUUAL BUILDING IN THE PRIVATE 1898 SPACE. I'M SORRY TO SEE HIM PASS AWAY. MY HEART GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY OUR COMMUNITY, WE'VE LOST A GOOD LEADER. THAT'S IT. >> THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR WONDERFUL AND ON-POINT ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR THE BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUT. DEEPLY APPRECIATE IT. MY GOOD WISHES AD WELL WISHES TO ALL OF OUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS HERE IN THE CITY OF DURHAM, OUR NEIGHBORS AND RESIDENTS AND FRIENDS. PEACEFUL PASSOVER. TO OUR DURHAM RESIDENTS THAT ARE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, PRAY YOU HAD WONDERFUL EASTER AND WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE A TIME OF RENEWAL AND LOOKING AT A CHANCE OF GETTING UP AFTER A CATASTROPHIC FALL. ALSO CON E DOE LENSES TO ALL CATHOLIC BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF DURHAM ON THE PASSING OF YOUR HOLY FATHER, POPE FRANCIS.
WHAT A COMPELLING FIGURE AND THE CONVERSATIONS HE STARTED WITH THE ANCIENT AND CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTION TO THE ROLE OF THE WOMEN TO LGBTQ TO ENVIRONMENT. I AD ADDEDED TO MY BUCKET LIST AT SOME POINT SEEING THE PUBLIC AUDIENCE IN ST. PETER'S SQUARE. I'M GLAD I MADE TIME FOR THAT. I THINK HE MADE EYE CONTACT WITH ME AND SMILE UHHED. THERE WERE A LOT F OF PEOPLE THERE. I CAN'T BE BE TURN BUT THAT'S THE WAY I'M GOING TELL THE STORY. OUR PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE OVERBILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY WHO ARE MOURNING THE PASSING OF THEIR PASTOR, PARTICULARLY THOSE HERE IN DURHAM.
FINALLY, I ANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN FOR MENTIONING THE VIGIL. I HAD OPPORTUNITY TO STOP BY THE VIGIL FOR TRAYS A GOOD IN CCB PLAZA. WHAT A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN. FOLK WHO ARE PROCESSED O OF GENIUS PROCESS AND FEEL DIFFERENTLY. THOSE F OF US THAT ARE NOT BURDENED WITH THAT CHARACTERISTIC SOMETIMES WILL LOOK AT FOLKS WHO ARE POSSESSED OF GENIUS AND NOT QUITE GET THEM ALL THE TIME, BUT IN YOUNG MAN WAS POSSESSED OF GENIUS, WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT, A DEAR YOUNG FRATERNITY BROTHER TO THE MAYOR AND I.
I DON'T REMEMBER HOW MANY YEARS AGO I ME HIM BUT ONE THING I DO REMEMBER IS WHEN WE WENT -- WHEN WE EMPANELLED OUR RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE, WE WERE GETING READY TO SEAT THEM AND WE WERE GETTING READY TO DO IT WITHOUT ONE BLACK MAN ON IT, ON THE RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE, NO AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN ON THE SLATE, WE WERE GETTING READY TO VOTE IN AND I REMEMBER TRAYUS SAYING TO ME TWO POWERFUL L WORDS. REALLY, BROTHER? VERY DIRECT, HE DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE, I KNEW WHAT HE MEANT TO SEE ASKED FOR THE VOTE TO BE HELD UP AND DID WORK AND OF COURSE THE REST IS HISTORY.
WE EMPANELLED DIVERSE RACIAL EQUITY TASK FORCE. THAT'S PART OF HIS LEGACY BEING ON THAT TASK FORCE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT. TO HIS FAMILY, TO SUKI, HIS BELOVED, AND TO HIS DAUGHTER OF HEART AND TO ALL THOSE WHO LOVED HIM ARK LOT F OF PEOPLE ARE HURTING BUT WE'RE GOING BE ALL RIGHT. I'LL END WITH THIS STEVIE WONDER SUNG THE WORDS AS TODAY I KNOW I'M LIVING BUT TOMORROW MIGHT MAKE ME THE PAST BUT THAT I MUST NT FEAR BECAUSE THE LOVE OF ME I LEFT BEHIND AND I'LL BE LOVING YOU ALWAYS UNTIL THE DAY THE NIGHT AND NIGHT BECOMES AS DAY.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. ONE THING ABOUT GOING LIVE THROUGH THE ANNOUNCEMENTS IS Y'ALL PRETTY MUCH SAY EVERYTHING, AND SOMETIMES COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN MIGHT HAVE ONE MORE, SO I'LL DO THAT. GO AHEAD. >> I'M SORRY. I GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL, BUT I'M NOT SORRY ABOUT THAT, JUST SORRY TO HAVE TO BUTT BACK IN. I APPRECIATE MAYOR PRO TEM BRINGING UP THE NCC -- I DO WANT TO JUST ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM JUST ACKNOWLEDGING HOW DIFFICULT IT IS IN THESE TIMES TO SEE SOME STUDENTS ENGAGING IN PEACEFUL PROTEST AND BEING CONFRONTED BY OFFICERS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO ADDRESS IT IN A WAY THAT, I FELT WAS APPROPRIATE.
I JUST REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE DO STATE VERY CLEARLY THAT I DID NOT -- IT DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH ME WHAT I SAW, AND I JUST SAW PICTURES. I UNDERSTAND THERE'S VIDEO AND WHATEVER IS HAPPENING O ON THAT CAMPUS I WANT TO MAKE SURE FOLKS KNOW WE'RE HERE AND WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB WITH OUR STUDENTS ON CAMPUS, ESPECIALLY AT THIS HISTORICALLY-BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THANK YOU ALL OF THOSE WHO SPOKE ABOUT OUR BELOVED FRATERNITY BROTHER TRAYUS.
SOME FOLKS IN THE PUBLIC WHO DON'T KNOW HIM MAY BE WONDERING WHO IS THIS PERSON? HE'S A VERY TALENTED, VERY INTELLIGENT YOUNG MAN WHO, YES, HE WAS OUR FRATERNITY BROTHER, BUT ALSO HE IS WHO I WAS WORKING WITH DIRECTLY IN ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING MENTORING ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THIS ENTIRE CITY. THAT WAS HIS LIFE'S WORK, AND HE'S LEAVING US WITH THE LEGACY OF THAT WORK AND I TRANSLATE HIS LEGACY INTO AN ASSIGNMENT TO CONTINUE THE WORK WE WERE DOING TOGETHER. MANY OF YOU ALL HAVE HEARD ME TALK AWE BOUT THE BULL CITY FUTURE FUND.
THAT WAS ASSOCIATED IN A SENSE WITH THE WORK HE WAS DOING WITH THE YOUNG MENTOR COLLABORATIVE. THE FUNDS THAT THE CITY WAS, YOU KNOW, WE WAS ABLE TO GET A GANT AND HE WAS PARTNERING WITH THE CITY NU THE OFFICE ON YOUTH TO BUILD OUT THIS FRAMEWORK SO WE WERE DOING A LOT F OF WORK FOR THE CHILDREN IN THIS COMMUNITY. I CAN TELL YOU THAT NOT EVERYONE IN THIS COMMUNITY IS NICE ALL THE TIME, AND I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CHECK OURSELF BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW HOW DEP IT'LL CUT, YOU NEVER KNOW, SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE BE SENSITIVE TO FOLKS THAT ARE BATTLING THINGS THAT ARE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, OKAY.
AND, THANK YOU ALL ALSO FOR SPEAKING OF THE PASSING OF THE POPE, THE POPE -- I MEAN THIS IS THE FIRST HOPE I'VE EVER PAID ATTENTION TO, AND HE EMBODIED COURAGE, AND I KNOW THIS IS ACTING BUT IF YOU JUST WATCHED THE MOVIE CONCLAVE AND THIS DEPICTION OF THE POLITIC B IN IT IN THE ROMAN CHURCH, IT'S VERY INTERESTING. THE IT'S NOT REAL L LIFE BUT THE POLITICS ARE DEFINITELY THERE AND FOR SMEONE TO STEP UP IN THE FACE OF SUCH HISTORIC TRADITION F OF ONE WAY OF THINKING AND THEN TO BE ALL, YOU KNOW, DEI IS JUST AN ACRONYM, BUT AS I'VE STATED BEFORE, IF IT'S YOUR VALUES, THAT CAN'T BE TAKEN AWAY, AND HE EMBODIED THOSE VALUES AND THAT IS WHY I PAID ATTENTION.
SO, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE. SO I DID NOT KNOW THAT DURHAM WAS BEING WATCHED SO MUCH ON NATIONAL SCENE. AND ONE THING THE FOLKS HAVE BEEN WATCHING IS SOME OF THE -- THIS IS BEFORE MY TIME -- BUT SOME OF THE POLICIES COLLEAGUES, THAT WERE ON THE COUNCIL BEFORE ME. THE DECISIONS YOU MADE AROUND LIGHTING IN THE CITY. THE STF INNOVATIVELY PROPOSED TO YOU ALL IN THE PAST. IT'S BEING WATCHED AN ON THURSDAY I'LL BE SITTING ON A STAGE IN FRONT OF ABOUT 1,500 PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE LIGHTING IN DURHAM, AND SOME OF THE IB VATIVE WRK WE'RE -- INNOVATIVE WORK WE'RE DOING AROUND CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ACTION PLANS, OUR OUR LIGHTING, SWITCHING OUT OF LEDs, HOW WE USE LIGHTING AS CONVENING AND ALSO SOME OF THE CLIMATE POLICIES.
I'LL BE SITTING ON STAGE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED ON OVER THE PAST TIME IN FRONT OF 15 PEOPLE AS THE ONLY MAYOR FROM THE UNITED STATES IN LONDON, SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO REPRESENT US THERE. AND THEY WERE SO INTERESTED THAT THEY SAID DON'T EVEN USE YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS WE'RE BRINGING YOU OVER TO REPRESENT YOUR CITY. EXCITED TO PUT DURHAM ON TE INTERNATIONAL STAGE SO I WON'T SEE YOU ALL ON THURSDAY BUT I'LL BE WATCH SPOPG COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN, DON'T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I'M GONE, ALL RIGHT.
WE ALSO HAD THE RALEIGH-DURHAM START-UP WEEK RECENTLY AND THE FIRST, WELL, YEAR BEFORE LAST WE HAD ABOUT 1,500 PEOPLE SHOW UP. THIS YEAR WE HAD ABOUT 2,500 PEOPLE SHOW UP AND THESE ARE FOLKS REGISTERING AS FOUNDERS OF START-UPS AND THERE ARE FUNDERS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HERE, AND, IT WAS JUST AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY AND I JUST WANTED TO SUPPORT AND UPLIFT THAT. SPECIFICALLY WALK STARS. W-O-C STAS, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN VENTURE CAPITALIST AND SHE AWARDED FIVE START-UPS RIGHT HERE IN DURHAM AND WE'LL BE CELEBRATING THAT.
WE'RE GOING TO DO A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT SOON TO ACKNOWLEDGE THESE SMALL BUSINESSES HERE LOCALLY WHERE THEY'RE GETTING SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT. I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY TO SOME PEOPLE BUT I DO WANT TO BUILD AND GROW A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY OUT OF DURHAM, AND I KNOW IT'S POSSIBLE. BEFORE I GOT HERE TONIGHT, I GAVE OPENING REMARKS TO THE SENIOR GAMES. THEY ARE KICKING OFF THIS EVENING, AND I WANT TO WISH THEM WELL AS THEY COMPETE. WE HAVE LIKE ONE O OF EVERYTHING SO THEY'RE ALL GOING ADVANCE TO THE STATE LEVEL SO LET'S MAKE SURE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WE'RE CHEERING OUR SENIOR CITIZENS ON AS THEY COMPETE IN A MULTITUDE OF ACTIVITIES.
OF COURSE Y'ALL TALK ABOUT EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH DANCE PARTY. I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT. I HAD A CHANCE WITH A YOUNG GIRL AND I'M GOING POST THAT TONIGHT ON MY SOCIALS. WE HAD A BALL, AND I'M JUST GOING POST JUST SO Y'ALL CAN SEE HOW FUN IT WAS. I HAD A FOOD ON BUT WE WERE JAMMING. I CAN REALLY DANCE. I COULDN'T DANCE IN THE VIDEO, BUT I DO KNOW HOW TO DANCE. I SEE COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN DOWN THERE TALKING ABOUT ME.
ALSO THAT SAME EVENING, WE CELEBRATED WITH URBAN MINISTRIES AT THEIR GALA, AND ALSO AGAIN, WITH THE CHANCELLOR AND HER CEREMONIES AT NCCU. THAT MORNING, YES, WE INSTALLED THE 13th CHANCELLOR OF NCCU AND LET ME TELL YOU ALL SOMETHING, SHE'S GOING A DYNAMITE JOB. AND YES, I KNOW, THERE WAS PROTESTS HAPPENING ON CAMPUS AND LET ME SAY FOR THE RECORD THERE WAS AN OVERREACTION IT WAS TO THE STUDENTS WHO WERE PEACEFULLY PROTESTING AND IT WAS AN OVERREACTION BY THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT WERE THERE.
THEY ARE HUMAN, NOT PERFECT, YOU KNOW, AND THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. I KNOW WHEN I WAS AT NCCU, WE HAD AN AMAZING RELATIONSHIP AND YOU DON'T HEAR THIS ALL THE TIME BUT YOU WILL HEAR THIS BECAUSE IT WENT VIRAL, BUT I DON'T WANT TO LET THIS ONE SITUATION BE THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF THE UNIVERSITY'S PRESENCE. WHY? BECAUSE WHILE THAT PROTEST WAS GOING ON T CHANCELLOR WAS NOT OUT THERE, SHE WAS ACTUALLY IN RALEIGH. SHE WAS IN RALEIGH LOBBYING FOR THE 162 PLUS MILLION DOLLARS FOR HOUSING AND FACILITY REVITALIZATION ON CAMPUS, AND GUESS WHAT?
SHE'S WORKING ON BOTH SIDES O OF THE AIL. I BELIEVE STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROTEST AND OUTCRY AND BE ABLE TO STATE WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AND I'M GRATEFUL WE HAVE A CHANCELLOR THAT LISTENS TO THEM AND IS FIGHTING FOR THEM SO WHAT I'VE SAID I THOEP STUDENTS AND CHANCELLOR WORK IN UNITY TO URGE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HONOR THEIR REQUEST SO THAT NCCU CAN ENSURE THAT THE STUDENTS ARE HVING LIVING CONDITIONS THEY DESERVE. THAT IS NOT THE WHOLE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE UNIVERSITY, BUT IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT WAY FOR SOME STUDENTS, THEREFORE, THEY NEED TO BE HEARD AND I SUPPORT THAT.
JUST IN CLOSING HERE, SPENT THE WEEK LAST WEEK IN WASHINGTON D.C. AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYOR'S ASSOCIATION. SPENT SOME TIME ON PANELS TALKING ABOUT HALTH INITIATIVES WE HAVE HERE IN DURHAM BUT I'M GRATEFUL TO SAY I WAS ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND I'LL BE REPRESENTING US ON THE NATIONAL SCALE WITH THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYOR'S ASSOCIATION. I GOT A CHANCE TO MEET MY TWIN, MICHAEL STRAHAN. I WALKED IN THE ROOM AND HE WAS TALKING AND HE SAID, WAIT A MINUTE, HEY DUDE, ARE WE RELATED?
I SAID YOU SOND LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE BUT IT WAS HILARIOUS. BUT WHILE THERE, SPENT SOME TIME WITH SOME CORPORATE BUSINESS COUNCIL AND PARTNERS, AND MANY OF O YOU KNEW ABOUT THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERFUL AND FINANCIAL LITERACY TOUR I DID EARLIER THIS YEAR. WE'RE WORKING ON CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN THAT SO HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING GOES WELL AND IF IT DOES WE'LL CONTINUE THAT AND AT AN EVEN LARGER SCALE, AND ALSO LET'S MAKE SURE WE SHOUT OUT A HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MAJOR THE BULL WHICH WAS RECENTLY. ALL RIGHT.
AND IN CLOSING, IN CLOSING, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. I DON'T SAY THAT BECAUSE I'M ONE, WELL, I WOULD LOVE YOU TO SUPPORT ALL OF US, ACTUALLY, BUT SOME OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, SOME OF US IMPORT INTERNATIONALLY. DURHAM IS KNOWN FOR HAVING JUST THE BEST QUALITY DINING EXPERIENCES, AND I MET WITH A LOCAL COFFEE SHOP TODAY AND COFFEE, THE RAW COMMODITY HAS DOUBLED IN PRICE BECAUSE BRAZIL AND VENEZUELA HAD DRY CROPS THIS YEAR.
SO YOU HAVE INCREASE IN DEMAND, DECREASE IN SUPPLY, AND SO THEY'RE TRYING TO NAVIGATE THAT BUT NOW THERE'S A 25% TARIFF, SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE COFFEE GETS MORE EXPENSIVE, I HOPE THAT WE'LL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL MAKE THE SACRIFICE TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES IN ANY WAY WE CAN CAN. TIMES ARE TOUGH AND IT'S GOING TO BE YOU ARE THE TURBULENT. WE'LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO AGENDA TONIGHT, COLLEAGUES AND I'LL NAVIGATE US THROUGH THAT. THERE ARE SOME HEARINGS TONIGHT AND AS I PASS IT OVER TO MANAGEMENT, HE'LL GIVE US INSTRUCTIONS BUT I'LL SAY ITEM 23 WILL BE THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING THAT WE HAVE, BUT MR. BO, MR. MANAGER WILL YOU GIVE DIRECTIONS ON THE OTHERS?
>> GOOD EVENING. CITY MANAGE EAR OFFICER HAS PRIORITY ITEM. 24 24. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (DEQ) COMMUNITY WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING GRANT PROJECT ORDINANCE FOR RECYCLING EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. JUST BY WAY OF EXPLANATION, THIS WAS SUBMITTED AFTER YOUR WORK SESSION SO IT HASN'T BEEN HEARD ON WORK SESSION BUT IT IS ON YOUR AGENDA BECAUSE THERE'S A TIMELY MATTER TO GET IT ADOPTED. STAFF IS HERE IF P YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BUT IT IS A ROUTINE ITEM. THEN AS THE MAYOR INDICATED JUST AS A COURTESY TO OUR SCIENCE LANGUAGE INTERPRETER THIS IS EVENING, WE ASK WHEN WE GET TO GENERAL BUSINESS PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT ITEM 23 GO FIRST AS TAT IS A REQUIREMENT OF THAT PUBLIC HEARING.
THANK YOU, MAYOR. >> YOU GOT IT. IF WE CAN PUT THIS ON CONSENT, CORRECT? WE DON'T NEED TO PUT MONEY IN WORK SESSION, RIGHT, COLLEAGUES, WE CAN JUST BRING IT ON? ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. AND, -- >> DO YOU WANT ME O TO MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE IT TO CONSENT AGENDA? >> EITHER WAY. >> RIGHT. LET'S GO AHEAD AND DO IT. I WAS GOING TO PUT IT ON CONSENT AGENDA. MADE A MOTION TO MOVE I TO.
CONSENT AGENDA. >> SORRY. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADD THIS -- >> SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. IT'S A DELAY. ONE MOMENT. THERE WE GO. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> AND THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. SORRY, I'M A LITTLE RUSTY. >> NO WORRY UHS. NO WORRIES. GOT IT. MADAM ATTORNEY, ON YOU. >> GOOD EVENING. HAPPY BIRDAY AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS NO PRIORITY ITEMS TONIGHT. >> THANK YOU.
Madam Clerk. >> GOOD EVENING. NO PRIORITY ITEMS TONIGHT. >> THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME I WILL READ OUR CONSENT AGENDA. 1. PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING STEERING COMMITTEE - APPOINTMENT. 2. MAYOR'S HISPANIC/LATINO COMMITTEE - APPOINTMENTS. NOT PULLING IT BUT COUNCIL MEMBER CABALLERO YOU WERE MENTIONING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS TO ME SO REMIND ME. WE'LL TAKE -- OKAY. 3. DURHAM WORKERS' RIGHTS COMMISSION - APPOINTMENTS. 4. APPROVAL OF CITY COUNCIL MINUTES. 5. CITY CODE AMENDMENT FOR WATER AND SEWER CONNECTIONS. >> NUMBER FIVE'S BEEN PULLED BY COMMUNITY.
>> THANKS FOR THAT. 6. CONTRACT WITH CORPORATE F.A.C.T.S., INC. FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE FIVE-YEAR (2025-2029) CONSOLIDATED PLAN, 2025 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN, AND 2025-2029 ANALYSIS OF IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING CHOICE. >> THAT ONE'S BEEN PULLED AS WELL. 7. TRAILS AT TWIN LAKES DEVELOPMENT LOAN COMMITMENT. 8. SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT #18394 BETWEEN THE CITY OF DURHAM AND DURHAM COUNTY FOR THE PROVISION OF THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS (HOPWA) HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND RELATED SUPPORTIVE SERVICES. 9. ELECTRIC VEHICLE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT PRE-ASSESSMENT AND DESIGN BUILD CONTRACTS WITH MLS ELECTRIC, INC.
10. FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CLIMATE CORPS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DURHAM AND STRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS, INC. 11. PRELIMINARY GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK (CMAR) CONTRACT WITH LECHASE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC FOR THE CITY HALL AND ANNEX HVAC PROJECT. 12. PARKING FACILITIES STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE FY24 - PACKAGE #1 PROJECT CONTRACT CHANGE ORDER #2 WITH CAROLINA RESTORATION & WATERPROOFING, INC. 13. DRAINAGE STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS (SD-2025-02). 14. CONTRACT WITH MUNICIPAL MEDIA CORP. FOR RECYCLE COACH AN ALL-IN-ONE WASTE AND RECYCLING COMMUNICATION TOOL. 15. CONTRACT WITH CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION TO PURCHASE NUTANIX LICENSES.
16. CONTRACT WITH SHARP LEASING USA CORP. FOR LEASING AND UPGRADE OF PRINTER FLEET. 17. MUNICIPAL MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTS WITH NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR SIGNING AND PAVEMENT MARKING WORK PERFORMED ON STATE ROADS. 18. CONSOLIDATED ANNEXATION - ROMERO RESIDENCE. 19. CONSOLIDATED ITEM - PAGE/MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT. 20. TC2400003: A PRIVATELY INITIATED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT. 21. CONSOLIDATED ANNEXATION - PAGE CORNERS. 22. ZONING MAP CHANGE - 1202 ELLIS ROAD. 23. PROPOSED SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE FY2020-2025 CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND FY2021-2022, FY2022-2023, FY2023-2024, AND FY2024-2025 ANNUAL ACTION PLANS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) AND HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS (HOPWA).
24. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (DEQ) COMMUNITY WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING GRANT PROJECT ORDINANCE FOR RECYCLING EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. THAT IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM FIVE, SIX. >> MOTION TO ADOPT CONSENT AGENDA -- >> AND OF COURSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS WE'LL GET TO IN THE PUBLIC HEARING. ALL RIGHT I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION PLEASE. I HEARD COUNCIL MEMBER COOK AND SECOND -- MAYOR PRO TEM. PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. FIRST ITEM.
5. CITY CODE AMENDMENT FOR WATER AND SEWER CONNECTIONS. THIS WAS PULLED BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS. KATIE ROSS, CAN YOU HEAR ME? IS SHE ON THERE? MS. ROSS, CAN YU HEAR ME? MS. MOTLY-PEARSON, YOU HEAR ME? >> YES. >> WELCOME. THREE MINUTES. >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS TINA PEERSON AND MY ADDRESS ON FILE. REGARDING THE CITY CODE AMENDMENT FOR WATER AND SEWER CONNECTIONS, FOR ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SAY I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THERE'LL BE NO SERVICES EXTENDED OUTSIDE THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY; HOWEVER, I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SEWER SERVICES.
SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SYSTEMS DAMAGED BY BLASTING CAN HOOK ON TO CITY SEWER, BUT THE SEWER LINE UHS IN FRONT OF MY p PRESSURIZED WHICH MEANS NO ONE CAN HOOK ON TO EXCEPT THE INTENDED DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS KATIE HOMES. HOW MANY OF THESE SEWER LINES ARE PRESSURIZED SO THAT NO ONE EXCEPT THE INTENDED DEVELOPMENT CAN HOOK ON TO IT? IF THIS IS THE CASE THEN LOOKING ON TO CITY SEWER IF YOUR SYSTEM IS DAMAGED IS A PROBLEM. I'D LIKE TO ASK THE QUESTION HAS ANYONE LOOKED INTO THS ISSUE REGARDING THIS AMENDMENT?
THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU. DO YOU HAVE A RESPONSE. >> ROBERT JOYNER WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. I WORKED WITH SCOTT WHITEMAN TO DEVELOP THESE CHANGES, AND THESE CHANGES ARE ACUALLY BEING BROUGHT ABOUT BY CHANGES TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND SO THESE THINGS WERE ORGANIZED IN RESPONSE TO MS. PEERSON'S QUESTIONS ABOUT FORCE MAINS, SO AS PROJECTS ARE DEVELOPED IN THIS AREA, SOME OF THEM WILL BE SERVED BY GRAVITY SURE, SOME OF THEM WILL BE SERVED ULTIMATELY BY PUMPATIONS AND AS THESE BUMP STATIONS AE -- PUMP STATIONS ARE BUILT THEY'RE CREATED LOW POINT AND THEN THEY'LL PUMP THE WASTE BACK TO THE TREATMENT PLANT THAT IS -- THERE'S TWO OF THEM SERVED BY DURHAM BUT IN THIS LOCATION THEY'LL BE SERVED BY THE NORTH TREATMENT PLANT, WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
THOSE PUMP STATIONS AND FORCE MAINS ARE NOT SET TO BE TIE INTO. THE GRAVITY SEWERS THAT ALL CONNECT TO THOSE PUMP STATIONS ARE WHERE YOU WOULD ULTIMATELY CONNECT AND AS DEVELOPMENT IS BUILDING ADDITIONAL SYSTEMS IN THIS AREA, THAT WILL ULTIMATELY BUILD OUT AND IF YOU ARE IN A SITUATION WHERE YOUR SEPTIC SYSTEM AND OTHER SYSTEMS ARE NEXT TO THESE GRAVITY SYSTEMS THAT'LL BE PUT IN PLACE, YOU'LL HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONNECT THROUGH THIS ORDINANCE, AND THIS ORDINANCE, YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO CONNECT BEFORE THIS ORDINANCE MAKES ADDITIONAL CHANGES -- >> [INDISCERNIBLE] -- >> SORRY.
THIS ORDINANCE MAKES ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO ALLOW A SLIGHTLY WIDER ABILITY TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THOSE ISSUES LIE BLASTING AND OTHER TYPES OF THINGS THAT DESTROY SOME OF THESE ISSUES AND KIND OF JUST BROADENS IT A LITTLE BT SO WE CAN HAVE THINGS OTHER THAN JUST WATER QUALITY AS A WAY TO CONNECT. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. MS. ROSS, CAN YOU HEAR ME? >> IN YOU GO. YOU HAVE THREE HINS. >> I JUST WANTED TO SAY ON THIS ISSUE THAT I BELIEVE THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD LOOK AT THE WORDING OF THE AMENDMENTS A LITTLE MORE CAREFULLY BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT RULE SEVEN OR THE PART SEVEN THAT IS BEING PROPOSED TO BE CHANGED THAT INCLUDE TO PROPERTIES WITH WITH VERIFIED WATER SUPPLIES F OF UNSFATS FACTORY WATER INCLUDING WELL BUT UNSATISFACTORY WATER SUPPLY QUANTITY, AND MY QUESTION IS QUANTITY FOR WHAT?
QUANTITY FOR A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD? QUANTITY FOR AN APARTMENT BUILDING WITH 400 UNITS? AND YOU GUYS KNOW I'M AN ATTORNEY AND I KNOW THAT IF THERE'S A LOOPHOLE LIKE THIS IN HERE, IT WILL BE ATTEMPTED TO BE EXPLOITED. THE PART EIGHT THAT RESTRICTS APPLICATION TO, PROPERTIES OF 20 ACRES OR LESS WITH A MAXIMUM OF TWO HOUSEHOLDS, THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO PART SEVEN. SO MY SUGGESTION IS THAT YOU LOOK AT THIS LANGUAGE AGAIN, AND ASK YOURSELVES HOW CAN THIS BE EXPLOITED TO ALLOW FOR DEVELOPERS TO COME IN AND ASK FOR CONNECTION TO CITY WATERWAYS WITH, FOR LARGE DEVELOPMENTS AND NOT AS WE'VE BEEN TOLD JUST FOR ONE OR TWO.
SECOND, ON PART B, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT, THE NEW, UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT OR CAN CAN BE MODIFIED EXTENSION AGREEMENT THAT SHALL BE SUBJECT DETERMINED BY THE CITY MANAGER.- WELL, DOES THAT EVEN ALLOW FOR YOU TO BE NOTIFIED IF THE CITY MANAGER DOESN'T DECIDE THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD BE NOTIFIED? I'M JUST THINKING YOU NEED TO TIGHTEN UP THIS LANGUAGE IF YOU WANT IT TO BE LIMITED IN THE WAY TO BE LIMITED. TO US IT'S GOING- SO THAT'S JUST MY SUGGESTIONS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTION.
AT THIS TIME, STAFF, I'LL ASK IF YOU ALL CAN JUST RESPOND BY WRITTEN E-MAIL TO THE CONCERNS. THANK YOU. NEXT ITEM IS -- >> THE MOTION. >> -- YEAH, ACTUALLY ILL NOW ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT ITEM FIVE. >> MOVED. >> SECOND. >> I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOME CLARITY ON WHETHER THEY DO INTEND TO -- 'CUZ SHE BRINGS UP A VERY GOOD POINT. IS IT INTENDED FOR SINGLE HOUSEHOLD O NOT? THAT'S ALL. >> THEY'RE GOING TO RESPOND. >> BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD.
>> SCOTT WHITEMAN WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. THIS AMENDMENT ONLY APPLIES TO EXISTING PROPERTIES FOR ONE OR TWO UNITS. THERE'S NO -- IT CANNOT BE IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THREE OR MORE YOU'D HAVE TO APPLY FOR ANNEXATION. >> THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME IT'S BEEN MOVED -- WHO WAS THE MOTION? >> [LOW AUDIO]. >> ALL RIGHT. MAYOR PRO TEM MOVED; SECONDED BID COUNCIL MEMBER RIST. Madam Clerk, WOULD YOU PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE? PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WAS I IN THE [INDISCERNIBLE]. ITEM SIX AS WELL, OKAY. DO I HAVE AL HON DROE RUTH. WELCOME. THREE MINUTES. >> THIS MY FIRST TIME SO -- >> DOING WELL ALL RIGHT. >> SO, TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FAIR HOUSING IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ALL THAT, SO, ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTICE THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT CAME FROM NEW YORK THAT HAVE DIFFERENT COST OF LIVING AND MOVE DOWN TO NORTH CAROLINA, AND MAYBE HOUSE IS WORTH 20 BUCKS BECAUSE THEY GET A BETTER INCOME AND ALL THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY BUY THE HOUSE MAYBE 30-35 BUCKS JUST MAKE SENSE.
SOME PEOPLE WE HAVE BEEN LIVING IN NORTH CAROLINA SINCE 1996, AND SO KAND OF AFFECT THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEENLYING IN DURHAM FOR VERY LONG TIME AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING TO HELP OUT THE PEOPLE THAT HAS LIVE IN DURHAM AND MAKE DURHAM YOU KNOW, TO HAVE MAYBE AFTER THREE YEARS MAYBE PROPERTY TAX IT CAN BE A DIFFERENT WAY TO INDIVIDUALS.ASSESSMENT ON THOSE- SENIOR CIIZEN, THEY'RE FIXED R - INCOME AND A LOT OF TIME WILL AFFECT THEM AND WHEN I WAS SITTING OVER HERE I TALKED TO COUPLE PEOPLE INCLUDING MYSELF WE'RE THINKING ABOT LIVE UHHING IN DURHAM BECAUSE SOME OF THE TAXES GETTING HIGHER AND I BEEN FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, I'M OVER HERE BLESSED TO HAVE HOUSE AND THEN LONG TIME AGO I USED TO SLEEP IN MY CARE FOR THREE YEARS.
FAMILY HELPED ME OUT. JONES FAMILY HELPED ME OUT SO NOW VI MY OWN HOME AND PEOPLE ELDERLY THAT LIVE IN DURHAM, YOU KNOW, SOME UNABLE TO AFFORD TAXES AND THEY HAVE TO LEAVE, SO, AND, SO I LIKE TO KNOW IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FORM DURHAM AND UNDERSTAND THERE'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING LIKE SECTION AX FOR SOME OF THE PEOPLE AND ALL THAT AND UNDERSTAND THERE'S MONEY THAT HAS TO BE PUT ON THE SIDE TO HELP THEM OUT BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE THE MIDDLE CLASS, WE PAY TAXING AND YOU GUYS USE OUR TAX TO HELP OUT TE PEOPLE, YOU KNW, YOU KNOW THAT CANNOT AFFORD, SO, LIKE I SAID THIS MY FIRST TIME AND YOU KNOW I LOVE THIS COMPANY, YOU KNOW I'M FROM NICARAGUA, COMMUNIST COMPANY.
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT YOU GET KILLED. OVER HERE HAVE A LOT OF FREEDOM. THIS COUNTRY HAS GIVEN US A LOT OF FREEDOM BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE LIKE TO KEEP OUR HOMINGS AND BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, AFFORD TAXES WE GOT TO PAY FOR. I DO APPRECIATE YOU GUYS LISTENING AND LIKE I SAY IT'S MY FIRST TIME AND ACCORDING TO AGENDA NUMBER SIX THAT WAS THE CLOSEST ONES I COULD TALK TO YOU GUYS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RELIGION. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU SEE THAT YOUNG MAN BACK THERE NAMED DEREK WHO'S RAISING HIS HAND. HE'S ABOUT TO MEET WITH YOU AND HE'S GOING TO GET YOU, YOUR INFORMATION AND WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO IS FOLLOW-UP WITH YOU ON OUR TAX LEASE GRANT. >> YES, SIR. >> LOW INCOME HOME OWNER RELIEF. >> WE HAVE RESOURCES AND HE'S GOING TO GET YOUR INFORMATION SO HE CAN GIVE YOU ALL OF THOSE BUT WE SHOULD HAVE LONGER CONVERSATION AROUND HOW THIS WHOLE TAX THING WORKS.
>> YS, SIR. >> PROPERTY TAX RATE RAISED 74%. >> YES. >> AND THEN HOW DECISIONS WE MAKE IMPACT THAT. >> YES, SIR. >> BUT YOU MAKE A VERY VALID POINT AND IT'S WHAT WE LOVE AND HATE EACH OTHER ABOUT MOST OF THE TIME. >> YES, SIR. >> HOW WE MANAGE THE TOUGH DECISIONS WE HAVE TO MAKE AROUND HOUSING. >> YES. >> AND SUPPLY AND DEMAND AND THE CONDITIONS OF LIVING, AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME SPEAKING BUT YOU JUST PROBABLY WENT TO THE VERY CORE OF THE ISSUE OF WHAT MAKES POLITICS COMPLICATE SOD YOU GO SEE HIM.
>> YES, SIR. ONE THING I BEEN TOLD BY HIM SOMETIME WE GOT TO DAY CARE CARE OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND US. >> YES. >> I WILL DO THAT. THANK YOU. >> THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AND THE NEXT PERSON WAS ROY JONES. P >> HE ACTUALLY RESCINDED HIS RIGHT TO SPEAK SO HE NO LONGER WANTED. >> SOUNDS GOOD. AT THIS TIME -- THANK YOU FOR THAT. AT THIS TIME, I'L ENTERTAIN A MOTION. >> MOVED AS PRINTED. >> MOVED AND SECONDED.
Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. Javiera Caballero, AM I ALLOWED TO -- OKAY. COOL. NEVER MIND, I'M NOT GOING TO FORD YOUR VOTE, YOU'RE FINE. IT'LL PUT YOU AS AFFIRMATIVE. Madam Clerk, PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. I ASKED YOU TO CLOSE IT BEFORE I PRESSED YES, SO YOU CAN RECORD MINE AS YES. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> ALL RIGHT. NEXT ITEM IS NUMBER 23. >> GOOD EVENING. WE'RE GOING TALK ABOUT THE PUBLIC HEARING. Shanetta Burris, STRENGTH DIRECTOR OF STATEGY. THE PURSE IS TO RECEIVE CITIZEN COMMENT TO THE FY 202025 CONSOLIDATED PLAN, THE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN CONTAINED IN THE ADOPTED FY2020-2025 CONSOLIDATED PLAN REQUIRES THAT A PUBLIC HEARING.
TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE FY2020 THROUGH 2025 CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND FY2021-2022, FY2022-2023, FY2023-2024, AND FY2024-2025 ANNUAL ACTION PLANS (AAPS) FOR CDBG AND HOPWA FOR SUBMISSION TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD). THESE ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW STARTING MARCH 24 TO APRIL 23, 2025. CITY PARTICIPATION PLAN CONTAINED IN THE ADOPTED CONSOLIDATED PLAN REQUIRES A PUBLIC HEARING BE CONDUCTED TO FORMAL AMENDS TO ADD DELETE OR CHANGE CONSOLIDATED PLAN OR ANNUAL ACTION PLAN. THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT IS FOUR FOLD -- TO ENSURE TIMELY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT.
WHICH IS REQUIRED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT F OF HOUSING IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT. TWO, TO ADD ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CORRECT GOAL OUTCOME INDICATOR IN FY 20-25 CONSOLIDATED PLAN FOR HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS. THREE, TO CORRECT GIO AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOR THE DURHAM COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES HOPWA PROJECT SPONSOR 2025, 2024 ACTION PLAN AND FOUR, TO ADD AND REALLOCATE FUNDING TO THE FY 2023-24, 24-25 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN TO THE RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION ACTIVITY OF THE HOPWA PROGRAM. THIS NOTICE NOTICE OF THIS MEETING WAS PROPERLY ADVERTISED IN THE HERALD SUN AND QUE PASA NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTED VIA DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL LIST SERVE AS WELL AS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEB PAGE AND THE CITY OF DURHAM'S WEB PAGE.
IN CLOSING A SUMMARY OF THE COMMENTS OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND COMMENTS RECEIVED BY CITIZENS CONCERNING PROPOSED AMENDMENT LSZ BE INCORPORATE INTO THE FINAL DOCUMENT. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD FRM THE STAFF, I'LL NOW DECLARE THIS PUBLIC HEAR OEN O. I HAVE -- COLLEAGUES I'LL COME BACK TO US AFTER COMMENT. I HAVE TIFFANY SWOOP. THEN COLAR LYNN HINTON, CRYSTAL GRAVES, >> HELLO, EVERYONE -- >> AND Chelsea Cook. FOLLOW THAT ORDER. >> READY? I'M TIFFANY. MOSTLY EVERYONE NOES ME BY MY ORGANIZATION GRACED INC. HOWEVER I'M IN DURHAM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IS MY PASSION.
A LOT OF THE PROJECTS YOU ALL NAMED I AM ACTUALLY AWE PART OF. I WAS A PART OF THE MENTORING MOVEMENT WITH MR. ATRAUS GOODED. I HELPED HIM NAME THE MAYOR'S INITIATIVE AND ASKED HIM TO STICK IT IN YOUR OFFICE. HOUSING, I HAD A CAREER A THAT SPANNED 15 OR MORE YEARS IN HOUSING. I'M IN A LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROFESSIONAL. WITH THAT BEING SAID ALL OF THESE RESOURCES YOU ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT, I'VE MANAGED A $300 MILLION PORTFOLIO WITH OVER 100 MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA AND DID IT WITH EXCELLENCE.
TO THAT END, I WAS SOLELY NAME BID THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE FOR MY CONTRIBUTIONS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I AM HERE TONIGHT AS A PART OF EHE DURHAM IN THE HV EPIDEMIC IN DURHAM. THIS IS A HUGE HEART STRING OF MINE. IT INCLUDES THE MOST VULNERABLE, THE ONES WHO'VE BEEN CAST ASIDE. CAST ASIDE JUST LIKE THE KIDS I SERVE IN CORNWALLIS. DURHAM IS KNOWN AS THE CITY OF MEDICINE YET WE AR FACING A GROWING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. WE RANK NOURT NORTH CAROLINA HIV RATES WHILE OTHERS COUNTRIES SEE DECLINES OURS CONTINUES TO RISE -- EXCUSE ME, COUNTIES.
HOUSING IS HEALTH CARE. PEOPLE WITH STABLE HOUSING MANAGE EFFECTIVELY. DURHAM LEFT OVER $1.3 MILLION IN FEDERAL HOUSING FUNDS WITH HIV UNUSED IN RECENT YEARS. IF WE WANT TO END THE EPIDEMIC, WE MUST LEAD WITH A HOUSING-FIRST APPROACH, STABLE HOMES SAVE LIVES, REDUCE TRANSMISSION AND UPHOLD LEGACY. I WANT TO SHARE THAT I CONTRIBUTED TO THE A VRY SUCCESSFUL MULTIFAMILY TAX CREDIT HIV PROJECT IN GEORGIA, AND WHAT I WILL SAY IS, I HAVE SEEN HOW THE SUCCESS THAT'S CREATED WHEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ENGAGE THE EXPERTS LIKE YOUR COMMUNITY RESOURCES CARE INC., DR. HALEY OVER A DUKE, TIFFANY TOGETHER WE COULD CREATE AN IMPACT AND REDUCE THE DISPARITY OF THE HEALTH STATUS IN DURHAM.
THERE'S A HUGE PARTY OF WHERE PEOPLE IN DURHAM BELIEVE HEALTH IS AND WHERE THE PULSE IS TODAY. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. PEOPLE ARE DYING EVERY DAY. I'VE WATCHED THE HOMELESS POPULATION GROW AROUND MY OFFICE. I'VE WATCHED THE HOMELESS POPULATION GROW IN CORNWALLIS WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING EVICTED IN MASS RATES, AND NOT TO MENTION THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC THAT'S INCREASING THE HIV EPIDEMIC AS WELL. THANK YOU. WE NEED YOUR HELP. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR WOK. THANK YOU. AND DON'T STOP. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
>> I AM CAROLYN HINTON, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR HEALING WITH CARE IN DURHAM. WE'VE BEEN WORKING IN DURHAM TO HELP THE PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE OVER 30 YEARS NOW. WE'VE PROVIDED HOUSING FOR THEM AND WE'VE RECENTLY HAD A LISTING OF THE INFORMATION THAT THE PERSON FROM THE CDG JUST READ ABOUT. WE BELONG TO A COALITION TO END HIV HERE IN DURHAM, AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING THAT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL DO THAT IS HOUSING FIRST. MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WITH HIV HAVE ADEQUATE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING HERE IN DURHAM.
A NUMBER OF -- AND I SPEAK FROM A "BOOTS ON THE GROUND" PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE I HELP PEOPLE FACE-TO-FACE IN FINDING HOUSING OR TRYING TO LOCATE HOUSING. WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE AMENDMENT THAT WAS MADE AND WAS PRESENTED AND WE NEED TO HAVE INCLUDED IN THAT AMENDMENT OUR COALITION. IT'S OVER 40 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER AND ARE REALLY EMOTIONALLY CHARGED ABOUT THIS HOUSING. PROVIDING ADEQUATE - WE CAN DO THIS BECAUSE HUD HAS FURNISHED HOPWA GRANTS. JUST AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE, OVER A MILLION DOLLARS WAS LEFT ON THE TABLE AND WILL BE RETURNED TO HUD AND IT SHOULD NOT BE.
WE DO NOT T HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING IN THE RIGHT SOURCES IN ORDER TO HELP THE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO HELP. SO I'M ASKING YOU TO HAVE OR INSTRUCT OR INCLUDE OUR HOUSING COALITION AS ONES THAT WILL HELP US TO PAVE THE WAY FOR THESE PEOPLE TO HAVE ADEQUATE, APPROPRIATE HOUSING. >> THANK YOU. >> HI. I'M CRYSTAL GREYS, I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT IN THE CORNWALLIS COMMUNITY LOCATED HERE IN DURHAM UNDER DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY. MANY OF YOU, COUNCIL, HAVE GOTTEN OR RECEIVED MY E-MAIL.
I NEED HELP. I'M SORRY. I NEED HELP BECAUSE I CAN'T DO IT BY MYSELF AND WE NEED HELP. WE REALLY NEED HELP. I AM NOT CONDONING AND PEOPLE NOT PAYING THEIR RENT, BUT THOUSANDING AUTHORITY IS EVICTING AT A VERY FAST RATE AND MY KIDS, THEY DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO AND THEY'RE GETTING OFF THE SCHOOL BUSES AND THEY DON'T HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, SO SOMETIMES VI TO FIGURE OUT WHO HOUSE THEY'RE GOING STAY THE NIGHT AT, AND M, I JUST WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO GO TO SCHOL.
SOME OF THEM ARE NOT GOING TO SCHOOL. THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL THEIR NAME, THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR COLORS OR THEIR NUMBERS, AND I KNOW YOU ALL GO HOME TO YOUR HOUSES AND I LIVE THERE AND I'M TRYING MY BEST. I HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS OF MY OW AND I AM TRYING, I'M TRYING TO HARD BUT I NEED HEP AND I CAN'T DO IT BY MYSELF. I AM ONE PERSON. I AM ONE PERSON, AND I REALLY, I REALLY I NEED HELP, AND I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BRING MENTORSHIP, BUT YOU CANNOT BRING MENTORSHIP WHEN THERE'S A HIGH SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE.
PEOPLE ARE ON FEINT NOL AND EVERYTHING ELSE UNDER THE SUN. WE NEED ON-SIGHT THERAPY AND COUNSELING. E WE NEED NIT THE COMMUNITY. I'M NOT ASKING FOR THEM TO DO IT FOR FREE. MOST OF US GET MEDICAID. WHOEVER THE COUNSELOR IS, THEY'LL GET PAID I JUST NEED THEM ON-SITE IN THE COMMUNITY SO WE CA GET HELP BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GETTING EVICTED AND THEY'RE DOUBLING UP IN HOUSING AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I'M ONE PERSON. PLEASE JUST HELP US, THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING IS FOR SOME TYPE OF HELP, FOR SOME TYPE OF INITIATIVE TO O BE IN PLACE.
I CAN HELP YOU IF ANYBODY NEEDS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY COMMUNITY, I AM TH GO-TO, I CAN TELL YOU, BUT MY KIDS NEED HELP. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> COLLEAGUES -- THANK YOU, MS. GRACE. I DID SEE THAT E-MAIL THIS MORNING. I DID FORWARD IT ALONG AND I DID ASK YOUR CITY MANAGER TO KID OF CHECK IN ON THAT SO JUST WANT TO LET YOU ALL KNOW I DID TOUCH ON THAT THIS MORNING. >> THANK YOU. >> HI. I'M HALEY CUNNING HAM, INFECTION DISEASES PHYSICIAN HERE WITH SARAH SMITD A HIV SOCIAL WORKER BECAUSE WE'RE TRIED OF WATCHING PEOPLE DEVELOP AIDS AND DIE BECAUSE OF LACK OF HOUSING.
OUR COALITION AGREES WHOLE HEARTEDLY WITH ADDING ALL HOPWA ACTIVITIES TO ANNUAL ACTION PLAN TO ALLOW FOR GREATER FLEXIBILITY SO ENSURE PROPOSED GOALS AND INTERCEPTIONS ALOINED WITH COMMUNITY NEEDS AN RESOURCES WE REQUEST THE COALITION TO END HIV BE CONSULTED AT ALL STAGES O OF IMPLEMENTATION. COALITION MEMBERS INCLUDE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION LEADERS WHO HAVE PROVIDED HOUSING CARE FOR OVR 30 YEARS AS WELL AS CLINICIANS, RESEARCHERS, HOUSING SPECIALISTS AND OTHER SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS. SIGNIFICANT FLAWS IN THE CURRENTLY-PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AND BUDGET. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A VAGUE PROPOSAL TO CORRECT GOAL OUTCOME INDICATORS FOR THE CONSUL DATED AND ANNUAL ACTION PLANS.
WE'RE CONCERNS THAT CORRECTED THE GOIS WILL EQUATE TO LOWERING SERVICE GOALS WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY. GOIs SHOULD BE EVIDENCE-BASED AND FOCUSEDED ON WHAT IS POSSIBLE RATHER THAN WHAT WAS OR WAS NOT ACHIEVED IN THE PRIOR TWO YEARS. ADDITIONALLY, EFFECTIVELY ADMINISTERING EACH COMPONENT OF HOPWA WILL REQUIRE AT LEAST ONE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE YET OEF ONLY 25-50 THOUSAND DOLLARS IS ALLOCATED EACH YEAR. AS PROPOSEDED BUDGET STANDS THE CITY OF DURHAM THAT IS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WILL RECEIVE THE LARGEST FUNDING INCREASE. THIS IS JUST COPIED AND PASTE FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET SHOWING THAT PROJECT ADMINISTRATION, IS PRIMARILY GOING TO DSS TO DO TO BE DETERMINED ENTITY FOR TBRA AND THEN A LAGE PROPORTION OF INCREASED FUNDING IS GOING TO THE CITY OF DURHAM.
HERE, TOO, WE SEE ANOTHER SNIPPET FROM OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND WE SEE THAT PROJECT ADMINISTRATION FOR THE TO BE DETERMINED SECTIONS WHICH IS COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IS ALLOWING LESS THAN $40,000 FOR EACH KIND OF FULL-TIME POSITION WHERE THIS MIGHT TAKE ONE OR TWO PEOPLE AT LEAST TO ADMINISTER AND THEN INCREASE IS GOING AGAIN TO THE CITY OF DURHAM WHICH WOULD BE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. GIVEN YEARS OF MISMANAGEMENT WE REQUEST THIS FUNDING SHOULD INSTEAD BE ALLOCATED TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITH PROVEN EXPERIENCE AND DEDICATION IN THIS AREA.
WE APPRECIATE THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ISSUED BY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, BUT EVEN THIS WAS ILL INFORMED AS IT IS UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT A VIABLE SYSTEM OF CARE. THE PROPOSED MODEL OF FUNDING AL VOCATION IS ON E REIMBURSE M RATHER THAN FOR THEM TO ADMINISTER HOPWA SERVICES ANDED NO ORGANIZATION HAS THE FUNDING TO DO THAT WITHOUT FUNDING UP FRONT. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION -- SORRY. ACTUALLY, COLLEAGUES, AT THIS TIME I'M GOING DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED AND BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL.
ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? COUNCIL MEMBER COOK. >> THANK YOU. >> STAFF, ARE WE PREPARED? >> THANK YOU FOR THE FOLKS WHO CAME OUT TO SPEAK TONIGHT? I'VE BEEN GOING TO SOME OF THE COALITION MEETINGS AND JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT WAS SAID WHICH IS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF EXPERTISE ON THAT COALITION AND A LOT OF O FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR LONG TIME, REALLY DOING THIS INTERACTING WITH COMMUNITY. SO I JUST I HAD A COUPLE O QUESTIONS.
THE FIRST ONE IS, CAN Y'ALL ADDRESS -- WE'VE HEARD IT A COUPLE OF TIMES AND I THINK I ASKED IT BEFORE BUT I'LL ASK IT AGAIN; IF MONEY WAS SENT BACK OR NOT UTILIZED THAT WAS HOPWA-SPECIFIC AND WHY THAT WAS AND HOW MUCH? >> SO GOOD EVENING. MAG GI CARNEGIE WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. AS FAR AS THE RECAPTURING OF FUNDS FROM HUD, COUNCIL MEMBER COOK, IF THAT'S WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING, WE HAVE NOT HAD FUNDING RECAPTURED IN RECENT TIME FRAME. I WILL SHARE, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE DID HAVE SOME 2018 HOPWA PROGRAMMING FUNDING RECAPTURED.
THE AMOUNT, I BELIEVE, WAS $24,000 AND I'LL SHARE THAT HOPWA PEER TO PERFORMANCE IS THREE YEARS WITHOUT REQUESTING EXTENSIONS. WE DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT ON A TWO-YEAR BASIS, BUT THAT IS PENDING APPROVAL BY HUD. BUT THAT IS OLDER FUNDING. THAT'S PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE IS LONG PAST COMPLETE AND GIB OUR CURRENT GRANTS WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY FUNDING RECAPTURED IN RECENT YEARS. DID I ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION? >> YES. THANK YOU. AND SO, MY NEXT QUESTION IS, A COUPLE O THE SPEAKERS TALKED ABOUT THE WANTING THE COALITION TO BE INCLUDED AS A RESOURCE.
>>. >> HAVE Y'ALL LOOKED INTO THAT AND COULD YOU SPEAK TO WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE? >> ABSOLUTELY. COUPLE THINGS. THERE WAS REFERENCE TO A COMPETITIVE REUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR HOPWA FUNDING. IT IS OPEN RIGHT NOW. IT OPENED APRIL 10TH, AND CLOSED MAY 21st. WE DO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THE COALITION TO REVIEW THAT RFP. WE'VE ALLOCATED OVER $1.3 MILLION OF FUNDING THAT'S COMPETITIVELY AAVAILABLE. IT COVERS AN ARRAY OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDING TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, PERMANENT HOUSING PLACEMENT AND SHORT-TERM RENT MORTGAGE UTILITY ASSISTANCE THEN THERE'S ALSO PROJECT-SPONSORED ADMINISTRATION.
THE PROJECT SPONSORED ADMINISTRATION IS CAPPED AT 7% GIVEN AN AWARD TO A PROJECT SPONSOR. SO IF SAY, WE AWARDED SOMEONE, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ADMINISTER TRA, ONLY 7% OF THAT CAN BE USED FOR P PROJECT ON ADMINISTRATIVE ELIGIBLE COSTS. WE EQUATE THAT TO INDIRECT SERVICES, MORE SPECIFICALLY, DIRECT STAFF TIME SPENT ADMINISTERING TBRA IN THIS EXAMPLE WOULD BE APPLIED TO TBRA SO REMAINING IF THEY WERE AWARDED. THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT DIRECT STAFF TIE SPENT ON DIRECTLIED ADMINISTERING THE PRODUCTS OR ACTIVITIES THEY'RE AWARDED CAN BE APPLIED TO THAT AWARD.
SO THERE IS THAT CAP THERE. THE OTHER PIECE THAT I WOULD ADD IS, WE CAN COMMITTED TO RELEASING IN THE COMING MONTHS ANOTHER COMPETITIVE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION. THIS APP ACTIVITY IS GOING TO SUPPORT US COMPLETING A NEEDS ASSESSMENT, DO SME PLANNING, LOOK ACROSS OUR ENTIRE FIVE COUNTY ELIGIBLE METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA COMPRISED OF DURHAM, PERSON, GRANVILLE, ORANGE, AND -- OH GOSH -- I'M MISSING ONE OFF THE TOP OF MY, I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH THAT COUNTY -- BUT THAT PROPOSAL WILL SUPPORT IDENTIFICATION OF RESOURCES THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE EMSA AND WILL INVOLVE ENGAGEMENT AND CONSULTATION WITH EXISTING HIV AND AIDS PROVIDERS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EMSA.
SO WE DO ENCOURAGE WHEN ONE WE RELEASE THAT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS THAT THE COALITION AND OTHER VESTED STAKEHOLDERS ATTEND PRESUBMITTAL MEETINGS ABOUT IT. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A THIRD PARTY ENTITY TO HELP US DO THAT WORK GIVEN THE FIVE COUNTY SERVICE AREA, BUT THEN THERE AFTER IT IS OUR EXPECTATION OF THAT CONSULTANT TO FACILITATE THIS ENGAGEMENT WITH EXISTING PROVIDERS BECAUSE WE E DO RECOGNIZE A NEED TO DEVELOP A CONTINUUM THAT SERVICES THIS ENTIRE AREA. THANK YOU. >> SO HELPFUL. SO TO THE FIRST REQUEST THAT'S CURRENTLY OUT, I KNOW IN THE PAST WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MONEY THAT COMES FROM FEDERAL SOURCES THAT THERE ARE HIGHER BARRIERS FOR COMMUNITY FOLKS TO ACCESS THAT.
DO WE HAVE -- HAVE WE WORKED WITH ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY TO ENSURE -- I KNOW WE'VE HAD TROUBLE IN THE PAT FINDING FOLKS TO DO THIS WORK AS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT WE HAD HOPWA CHAOS EARLIER THIS YEAR, HAVE WE -- ARE THERE WAYS FOLKS CAN WORK WITH THE CITY TO MAKE THEM ELIGIBLE? ARE THERE HIGHER BARRIERS? ARE WE ADDRESSING THSE IN ANY WAY? DOES THIS QUESTION MAKE SENSE? >> IT DOES. YES. SO AS FAR AS THE RFP RELEASE, IT IS THE CURRENT ONE THAT IS OUT AND AVAILABLE AND ACCEPTING PROPOSALS.
IT WAS DEVELOPED JUST BASED ON HOW WE'VE CURRENTLY ALLOCATED FUNDING AND IDENTIFIED FUNDING PRIORITIES IN THE ANNUAL ACTION PLANS THAT COMPRISE THAT 1.3 MILLION, SO THAT'S FISCAL YEARS 2023-24 AND 24-25. THE WAY THAT THE HOPWA POGRAM IS KIND OF SET UP IN ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION IS REALLY THE BEST PLACE AND SPACE FOR US TO HELP EXPLORE CAPACITY-BUILDING AND THAT IS PART OF THE REASON FOR US REALLOCATING RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION FUNDING TO THE CITY OF DURHAM BECAUSE WE HOPE TO SUSTAIN THE WORK THAT IS IDENTIFIED BY THE CONSULTANT.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT SERVING A FIVE COUNTY EMSA TALKS A LOT OF ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION AND WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS THAT ARE OUTLINED THROUGH THAT BODY OF WORK CAN BE CARRIED OUT. I DON'T KNOW IF I DIRECTLY ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. THE CAPACITY BUILDING HOPWA DOESN'T HAVE ELIGIBLE FUNDING STREAM TO SUPPORT THAT WORK BUT I THINK RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE AND THE MOST FLEXIBLE WAY FOR US TO HELP SUPPORT THAT EFFORT. >> I UNDERSTAND. I E MEAN I'M JUST LOOKING BACK TO THE THINGS THAT DR. CUNNINGHAM BROUGHT UP AS SOME OF THE ISSUES AND EVERYTHING IS OF -- THE REIMBURSEMENT MODEL AND MONEY SET ASIDE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND THEN THE 7% CAP YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT DOES FEEL LIKE IT MAKES IT RESTRICTIVE FOR FOLKS DOING THE WORK IN THE COMMUNITY TO WORK WITH THOSE FEDERAL FUNDS OUTSIDE OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING PART.
I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S A CREATIVE SOLUTION THERE BECAUSE I'M FEELING LIKE THE COMMUNITY IS FRUSTRATED AN I FEEL LIKE I ALSO AS A PERSON WHO WORKS IN THIS SPACE HAS BEEN FRUSTRATED AND I THINK THERE ARE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS BUT WITH THESE BARRIERS WE END UP WITH THE FEDERAL MONEY NOT IN THE HANDS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT'S DOING THE WORK AND WE END UP WITH LARGER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY SORT OF FED UP FOR SOME OF THIS PROCESS THAT MAYBE LIKE DON'T DO IT WITH THE CARE AND, YEAH, DETAIL ORIENTED I THINK THAT WOULD HAPPEN FROM SO.MUNITY WORKERS.- >> I THINK TO THAT, WE'D HAVE TO LEVERAGE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES JUST BECAUSE HOPWA SHARED.
IT HAS RESTRICTIONS. HUD DICTATES TO US WHAT IS AND ISN'T ELIGIBLE. THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS FOR THIS FUNDING SOURCE SAYS WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE BUT I DO THINK RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION IS GOING TO BE THE BEST WAY TO MEET THOSE CAPACITY CHALLENGES THROUGH THE GOALS AND OUTCOMES THAT WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOR THAT BODY OF WORK, PARTICULARLY THAT FORMING OF A CONTINUUM O OF CARE OPERATING KIND OF SYNONYMOUSLY WITH THE HOMELESS SERVICES CONTINUUM OF CARE THAT EXISTS, WE'RE GOING BUILD UPON TA MODEL TO TRY AND CREATE THIS FIVE-COUNTY NETWORK.
>>. BUT THE RFP THAT'S ALREADY OUT IS -- THIS IS THE THREE-YEAR CYCLE THAT'S GOING TO END AND SO WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING IT FOR THIS -- WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS IT FOR THIS CYCLE? >> THAT IS CORRECT. THAT IS CORRECT. BUT, I WILL SHARE YOU KNOW WE HAVE TO EVALUATE WHAT PROPOSALS LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY COME IN AND, IF FOLKS ARE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THEY HAVE CAPACITY OR DO NOT AND THEN THAT MAY PRIORITIZE THAT RESOURCE IDENTIFY KIEGS RFP AND SUPPORT THAT BODY OF WORK.
LIKE I SAID WE DO HAVE A THREE YEAR PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND WE ARE ABLE AS AN ENTITLEMENT JURISDICTION TO ASK FOR A ONE TO TWO YEAR EXTENSION TO THAT PERIOD OR PERFORMANCE SO THERE IS TIME WITH THIS FUNDING THAT WE'VE RELEASED COMPETITIVELY IN THE CURRENT RFP THAT'S OPEN. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU. >> ANYONE ELSE? >> THANK YOU. FIRST OF ALL E ECHO CONCIL MEMBER COOK AND THANK THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. YOU'VE DONE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGES WITH THE HOPWA.
I KNOW YOU'VE SENT US E-MAILS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATED WORK ON THIS AND HOLDING US ACCOUNTABLE. THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT GOALS OUTCOME INDICATORS AND CONSOLIDATED PLAN. CAN YOU RESPOND? >> YES. SO THE GOAL OUTCOME INDICATORS ARE PRESCRIBED BY HUD. THEY'RE PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN HUD SPEAK FOR ALL OF OUR ENTITLEMENT GRANTS. THERE ARE SPECIFIC GOAL INDICATORS THAT TIE TO SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES. IN OUR CURRENT PLAN WE DO NOT LISTED THE APPROPRIATE GOAL OUTCOME INDICATORS FOR SUPPORTED SERVICES ACTIVITY AND PERMANENT HOUSING PLACEMENT ACTIVITY.
THIS CORRECTION IS MERELY GOING TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE APPROPRIATELY REPORTING ON THOSE SERVICES AND BENEFICIARIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THOSE SERVICES IN A GIVEN PROGRAM YEAR WHEN WE VE HAVE TO DO YEAR-END REPORTING IN OUR CONSOLIDATED EVALUATION REPORT OR CAPER. SIT NOT GOING TO LOWER STANDARDS IT'S GOING TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE PROPOSELY REPORTING FOR THE WORK BEING DONE UNDER THOSE ACTIVITIES. THESE TEMPLATES, THE CAPER AND CONSOLIDATED PLANS ARE PRESCRIBES AN WHEN WE GO TO DO REPORTING YOU CAN ONLY MAN L WA WA WALLY ENTER REPORT BENEFICIARIES FOR THOSE SPECIFIC GOIs THERE WERE SELECTED.
AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ACCURATELY FULLY DEPICT HOW OUR FUNDS ARE BEING SPNT AMONG THE ACTIVITIES WE CURRENTLY ARE FUNDING. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND MR. MAYOR I WANT TO SAY AS YOU KNOW I'M THE REPRESENTATIVE TO THE DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY. WE DON'T DIRECTLY FUND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY BUT WE CERTAINLY HAVE A GREAT INTEREST IN THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL RESIDENT WHO IS LIVE IN DURHAM PUBLIC HOUSING SO APPRECIATE MS. GRAY'S COMMENTS. THOSE ARE VERY HEART FELT AND CONCERNING COMMENTS SHE SHARED.
I'LL BE MEETING WITH THE MANAGER TOMORROW. WE'LL TAKE THAT UP MR. MANAGER. I'LL BE MAKING SURE ANTHONY AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IS AWARE AND ASK HIS STAFF TO FOLLOW UP O ON THOSE IMPORTANT ISSUES. SO THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. I WILL JUST NOTE THAT ANTHONY SNOW IS ALSO ON THAT E-MAIL. SHE E-MAILS A LOT OF US. I DID WANT TO JUST ASK IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THING UNDERSTANDING YEAR OVER YEAR I THINK MS. HINTON AND COUPLE OF OTHERS IN THIS ECHO LIGS HAVE MADE THESE TYPES OF REQUESTS IN THE PAST.
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A BUDGETED REQUEST IN OR COMING FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AROUND MAKING SURE THAT SUPPORT IS IN PLACE EVEN THOUGH -- BECAUSE I KNOW YOU SAID THERE WAS NO ELIGIBLE LINE ITEM SO IT SEEMS LIKE YOU UNDERSTAND THERE'S A NEED BUT THERE'S NO -- I'M ASSUMING -- LET ME JUST ASK THE QUESTION AND NOT ASSUME. >> YES, COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. SO WE DO FORESEE AS PART OF THAT NEXT COMPETITIVE RFP FOR THE RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION THAT THERE ARE GOING BE NEEDS THAT EMERGE THAT WE'RE NOT AWARE OF JUST TRANSPARENTLY SO WE NEED TO TAKE THAT STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFORT AND THEN FIGURE OUT DO WE NEED TO LEVERAGE LOCAL FUNDS TO MEET THE GAPS THAT AREN'T BEING FULFILLED?
AND WE HAVE NOT COMPLETED A TEE JIK PLAN BODY OF WORK FOR HOPWA SINCE 2019 SO IT IS DUE TIME THAT THIS FUNDING SOURCE DOES HAVE THAT FOCUS IN EFFORT. SO WE CAN MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE PECEIVE THE NEEDS ARE BUT WE WANT TO ENGAGE PROVIDERS LIKE THE COALITION TO ENSURE THAT WHAT WE AS STAFF PERCEIVE WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, ARE WHAT SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE SEEING. >> I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO INCLUDE THE COALITION IN THAT CONVERSATION AND ALSO THE TENANT ASSOCIATIONS AROUND THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES AND SOME OF THE LOW INCOME HOUSING SITES BECAUSE WHAT MAY GET MISSED -- BECAUSE I DIDN'T HEAR IT THIS EVENING BUT I DO KNOW THAT SOME OF THE SENIORS WITH HIV ARE ALSO AND SOME OF THOSE OTHER SITES AROUND OUR CITY WHERE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE ELEVATORS -- THOSE THINGS ARE -- THEY'RE NOT ON THE FACE OF IT, YOU KNOW, RELEVANT BUT THEY ARE RELEVANT SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T MISS IT.
>> THANK YOU. I WANTED TO ADD OUR FIVE COUNTY ELIGIBLE METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA CONSISTS OF DURHAM, CHATHAM, GRANVILLE, ORANGE COUNTY. >> ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I'D LIKE TO ALSO STATE THAT I'M ACTUALLY ALREADY WORKING WITH MR. SNEL IN DHA AND AS YOU ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS, COUNCIL MEMBER RIST, TOMORROW, MAYBE YOU AND I CAN CHAT BRIEFLY AFTER THE MEETING JUST ON -- THEY GAVE ME THE ENTIRE PROCESS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE EVICTIONS PROCESS AND I DO'T WANT THAT CONVERSATION TO JUST BE JUST THROWN OUT THERE WIHOUT CONTEXT.
IT'S A COMPLEX MATTER. VERY COMPLEX, AND I CAN SAY NO ONE IS JUST BEING THROWN OUT BUT RESIDENTS FEL THAT WAY THAT MEANS THERE NEEDS TO BE COMMUNICATION BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF MOVING PARTS AND MANY VARIABLES TO THIS MATTER AND IT'S NOT MAKING THE NEWS RIGHT NOW AND IT'S NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT AS MUCH AS SOME OTHER THINGS BUT THERE'S A LOT F OF WORK BEING DONE AROUND IT. >> I LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING MORE ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS, COLLEAGUES? GO AHEAD. >> THIS IS NOT FOR Y'ALL. YOU'RE GOOD. JUST TO FOLLOW-UP ON THAT. I'M IN THE COURT HOUSE ERE DAY SEEING THE RESULTS OF THOSE EVICTION FILINGS AND DO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, THAT IS VERY REAL. WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF EVICTIONS. WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF MOVING FORWARD WITH PADLOCKING, AND IT DOES FEEL LIKE SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND THAT ARE NOT REFLECTING THE ACTUAL IMPACTS THAT THAT'S HAVING ON THE COMMUNITY, AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING AND I WANT TO GIVE VOICE TO.
I READ AND REALLY APPRECIATED MS. GREYS COMING UP TODAY AND I AM SEEING THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS IN THE COURT HOUSE IN A WAY I JUST DON'T FEEL IS REFLECTED INTO THE COMMUNITY. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. IT'S A SERIOUS ISSUE WHEN WE START SEEING EVICTIONS FROM LOW INCOME HOUSING BECAUSE THESE FOLKS DO NOT HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO. THIS I THE LAST SAFETY NET FOR THEM AND THERE ARE BROADER ISSUES THAT ARE IMPACTING THAT IN TERMS OF FEDERAL FUNDING AND OTHER ISSUES ON GOING, BUT JUST ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THAT IS REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS CRISIS AND A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AT RISK ARE FOLKS ON FIXED INCOME OR DISABILITIES SO IT TIES IN WITH TE CONVERSATION WE'RE HAVING TONIGHT.
>> THANK YOU. THIS IS A COMPLEX MATTER, AGAIN, AND THE REASON WHY I SAY IT'S COMPLEX IS BECAUSE WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER COOK SAID, IT'S VERY REAL. THE OTHER SIDE IS THERE ARE SOME COMMUNICATION THAT IS NEEDED. THERE IS RENT THAT HABT T BEEN PAID SINCE PANDEMIC. IT'S CASE-BY-CASE. I DON'T WANT TO LITIGATE THIS ON THE DAIS TONIGHT BECAUSE IT'S COMPLEX AND I DON'T WANT THIS CITY TO BE FACED AS ONE SITE OF THE STORY SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON AND -- >> IF I COULD SH I DO WANT TO SAY, SO THIS IS AN -- AND COUNCIL MEMBER COOK HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS, THIS IS AN ISSUE ON A MONTHLY INTAS THAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY TAKE SERIOUSLY THIS ISUE OF LEASE ENFORCEMENT AND WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE FAMILIES LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING AR VULNERABLE.
THERE HAVE BEEN SIX EVICTIONS THIS YEAR FROM HOUSING AUTHORITY. WE SAW THOSE REPORTS AT OUR LAST MEETING SO IT'S A SERIOUS ISSUE THAT WE TAKE AS YOU SAID QUITE SERIOUSLY. IT'S A COMPLICATED ISSUE AND ONE I'VE TALKED TO THE MANAGER. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE MAY WANT TO HAVE ADDITIONAL CONVERSATION SOMEWHAT AT WORK SESSION WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH HOUSING AUTHORITY. HOW FINANCING ARE IMPACTED BY PAYMENT RATES, REPAYMENT RATES AND REARS AND SO FORTH. I MEAN THE CITY HAS INVESTED ARPA FUNDS TO HELP COVER THOSE TENANT ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE BUT THERE'S MORE TO ADDRESS SO IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
>> THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING, WE'VE HAD COMMENTS. I'LL NOW ENTERTAIN A MOTION -- OTHER MAN, I NEED TO THE READ ALL OF THOSE? CAN I JUST READ ALL OF THOSE AND JUST DO ONE SOR IT CASE-BY-CASE. ALL RIGHT. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO AS PRINTED. >> MOVE TO AO PROVE AS PRINTED IN TOTAL. >> SECOND. >> THANK YOU ALL FOR NOT PUTTING ME THROUGH THAT. IT WAS A LOT. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE.
PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> ALL RIGHT. ITEM 24 WAS PLACED -- ALL RIGHT. OKAY. NOW WE CAN -- LET'S TAKE A BREAK. COLLEAGUES WE'LL COME BACK AT 9:10. WE'RE IN RECESS. >> ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL PROCEED TO OUR FIVE DEVELOPMENT ZONING CASES. STARTING WITH NUMBER 18. 18. CONSOLIDATED ANNEXATION - ROMERO RESIDENCE. HURRY UP BEFORE COUNCIL MEMBER COOK IS BACK AND WE'LL GET OUT OF HERE, YOU KNOW, WITHIN AN HOUR OR SO. >> MAYOR WILLIAMS, MAYOR PRO TEM MIDDLETON, AND HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD EVENING, I AM PEYTON BURGESS WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT.
BEFORE I BEGIN, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT ALL PLANNING DEPARTMENT HEARING ITEMS HAVE BEEN ADVERTISED AND NOTICED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW, AND AFFIDAVITS OF ALL NOTICES ARE ON FILE IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. A REQUEST FOR A UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT, VOLUNTARY ANNEXATION, AND INITIAL ZONING MAP CHANGE HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM JOSHUA JACOBO, REPRESENTING THE INDIVIDUAL LANDOWNER, FOR ONE PARCEL OF LAND TOTALING 0.64 ACRES AND LOCATED AT 213 SCHEER AVENUE. THIS ANNEXATION PETITION IS NOT CONTIGUOUS TO THE PRIMARY CORPORATE LIMITS.
THE REQUEST WOULD ALLOW THE APPLICANT TO CONNECT TO CITY WATER AND SEWER IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME. THE CURRENT ZONING IS RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN-20. AS PART OF THIS ANNEXATION PETITION, THE APPLICANT IS NOT SEEKING A CHANGE IN THE 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 THE PROPERTY INTO THE CITY LIMITS. A TRANSLATIONAL ZONING DOES NOT INCLUDE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN, AND ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT MAY PROCEED ACCORDING TO WHAT THE ZONING WOULD ALLOW.
THE PROPERTIES ARE CURRENTLY DESIGNATED ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL ON THE PLACE TYPE MAP. THE PROPOSED RS-20 ZONING IS GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH THE DESIGNATED USE SHOWN ON THE PLACE TYPE MAP. IF THE PROPOSED ZONING IS APPROVED, THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE TO THE PLACE TYPE DESIGNATION OF ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL. AS A REMINDER, COUNCIL MAY ELECT TO DENY THE ANNEXATION BUT APPROVE THE UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR WATER AND SEWER CONNECTION, BUT ANY DEVELOPMENT WILL REMAIN IN THE COUNTY. THANK YOU, STAFF AND THE APPLICANT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
>> THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE STAFF REPORT. ANY QUESTIONS? NOTED. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE AN APPLICANT AVAILABLE? ALL RIGHT. I DON'T HAVE ANY SIGNUPS SOALITY THIS TIME, I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED; BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? YES. >> AFTER YOU SAID THAT, NOW I HAVE TO -- NO, JUST KIDDING. I DO HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER F QUESTIONS. I WAS KIND OF HOPING TO SPEAK WITH MR. JACOBO BUT I DON'T -- HE'S NOT ON?
NOT ACCESSIBLE? OKAY. YEAH, I GUESS THEN THERE'LL BE A STAFF QUESTION. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT, THE -- Y'ALL ARE WAITING FOR MY QUESTION TO SEE WHO TO SEND. OKAY, YES. I WAS LIKE, WHO'S COMING, NO ONE'S COMING. I GUESS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHY THE ANNEXATION AS OPPOSED TO JUST THE UTILITY AGREEMENT. IT SEEMS THERE IS ACCESSIBLE WATER AND SEWER. THIS IS NOT CONTIGUOUS SO FEELS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE OUT OF THE WAY FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE. I LOOKED AT THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS.
IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THE THINGS I'M CONCERNED ABOUT SO WHY ANNEXATION AN IF THE RECOMMENDATION EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT CONTIGUOUS. >> SARA YOUNG WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. THIS IS ONE -- AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT AT THE END OF PEYTON'S SCRIPT SHE PUT A PLUG IN THERE THAT THAT WAS AN OPTION TO APPROVE THE UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT BUT NOT ANNEX. THIS DOES NOT FALL INTO ONE OF THE EXPLICIT EXEMPTIONS BUT IT DOES FALL INTO ONE OF THE CATEGORIES WHERE THE COUNCIL HAS LEEWAY TO EXCUSE ANNEXATION BUT STILL OFFER UTILITIES.
WHEN THAT IS THE CASE, THE METHOD FOR SOMEONE TO ASK IS STILL THE SAME UNDER CITY CODE. THEY HAVE TO REQUEST ANNEXATION BUT IT IS YOU ALL'S DECISION TO WHETHER TO ANNEX OR SIMPLY PROVIDE THE UTILITIES AN WHEN THAT IS THE CASE, WE PROVIDE THAT AS ALTERNATIVE. FLUSH >>, COLLEAGUE. >> COLLEAGUES, I LISTENED TO THE APPLICANT DURING WHEN HE SPOKE AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND IT SOUNDED LIKE THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION WHEN HE BOUGHT THE ROPY FIVE YEARS AGO. THERE WAS MAYBE SOME SUBDIVISION GOING ON AND THEN THE SELLER DIED MIDWAY THROUGH THE SALE AND THE SUBDIVISION DID NOT OCCUR AS THEY PLANNED.
THE APPLICANT HAS ACTUALLY ALREADY SOLD THE PROPERTY AND IS PLANNING TO DO THE BUILD FOR THE NEXT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OR THE CONTRACTING WORK FOR THE NEXT OWNER, BUT WITHOUT THE CONNECTION TO UTILITIES, THE LOT IS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO HOST A WELL AND SEPTIC SYSTEM. TO ME BEING THAT IT'S NOT CONTIGUOUS AND THEREFORE NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE COMP PLAN, I PERSONALLY FEEL MORE FOM FORTABLE WITH JUST THE UTILITY AGREEMENT IN THIS MATTER. I DIDN'T HEAR AN REASON FOR THE ANNEXATION TO OCCUR AND IT'S NOT SUPER FAR OUT BUT IT CERTAINLY IS FAR OFF OUR CURRENT CITY LIMITS, SO IT WOULD BE -- I WOULD BE MAKING THAT REQUEST TONIGHT THAT I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WIH JUST THE UTILITY AGREEMENT.
>> YEAH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, IT IS, NOT SUPER EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY STREET OR BY PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY TO AREAS THAT ARE WITHIN THE CITY AND SO ANNEXATION WOULD MEAN THAT THIS SINGLE LOT ON THIS STREET WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO CITY SERVICES, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT IS A VERY GOOD PRACTICE, IF WE WERE TO DO THAT HERE, TO DO THAT IN OTHER PARTS OF OUR CITY, THAT IS SUBSTANTIAL COST FOR CITY VEHICLES TO GO OUT THERE AND DELIVER SERVICES WHEN IT HAS TO GO THROUGH A SEED OF THE COUNTY AND GO TO THIS LITTLE SPOT ON THE MAP THAT IS CITY.
HOWEVER, IT IS RIGHT NEXT TO CITY SEWER, CITY WATER, SO IT DOES, YOU KNOW, IT DOES MAKE SENSE TO BE ABLE TO TAP INTO THAT. NOW IF THERE WERE, A TREND IN THIS AREA AND TREND ON THIS STREET OR AN AGREEMENT AMONG ALL NEIGHBORS TO ANNEX ALL AT ONCE, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING POSITIVE OR WE HAD SOME PROMISE OF OTHER NEIGHBORS IN THIS AREA COMING FORTH AND ALSO WANTING TO ANNEX INTO THE CITY, I THINK THAT WOULD MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.
IT IS BETWEEN TWO PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, SO IT'S KIND OF HARD. ON THAT END IT'S HARD TO SAY NO TO SOMEBODY ANNEXING INTO THE CITY, BUT IF IT IS JUST THIS ONE PARCEL ON THIS STREET THAT DOESN'T EASILY CONNECT TO OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, I'M NOT SURE IT MAKES SENSE, AND AS A RESULT I'M LEANING TOWARD, WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER COOK JUST SUGGESTED IN, IN MOVING FORWARD THE UTILITY EXTENSION WITHOUT ANNEXING INTO THE CITY. THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. >> GO AHEAD.
>> THANK YOU. I THINK SOME REALLY IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS. I THINK OBSERVATIONS MADE, THIS IS ALWAYS THE CASE WITH SMALL, INDIVIDUAL, PRIVATE CITIZENS LIKE THIS. I MEAN, WE DONE A LOT OF THESE JOKINGLY ALWAYS ASK THE D OF - APPLICANT ARE YOU A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION; THE ANSWER'S USUALLY NO. FOR THE WAY I SEE IT I WANT TO ANNEX THEM BECAUSE I WANT THE TAXES. IF WE'RE GOING GIVE THEM THE WATER AND SEWER, I THINK OFTENTIMES FOLK KIND OF IN AN ANTICIPATORY WAY LIKE THE ONE BEFORE US AT THE LAST MEETING WHO WANTED TO KIND OF BUILD WEALTH FOR HER FAMILY LOOK AT THE AREA AND ANTICIPATE WHAT MAY HAPPEN AND I GIVE A LOT OF LEEWAY TO JUST -- AND I DON'T MEAN THIS IN MAJORITY OF THE SENSE -- REGULAR INDIVIDUALS AND CITIZENS WHO ARE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS OR MULTIMILLION DEVELOPERS THAT WE, YOU KNOW, ASK FOR A LOT -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING -- AND ALWAYS TRY AND CAUTION MYSELF ABOUT APPEARING CAPRICIOUS BECAUSE WE ROUTINELY WHEN IT'S A RESIDENT WHO'S.
ASKING FOR A DIRECT TRANSLATION WHO'S JUST A SMALL INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW, LOOKING TO BUILD A SINGLE FAMILY HOME WHO WANTS TO BE PART OF THE CITY, I THNK THE ARGUMENT ABOUT -- NOT THE ARGUMENT, THE OBSERVATION ABOUT DOUGHNUT HOLES AND HAVING TO PROETD SERVICE IS ACCURATE, BUT THAW IS ALWAYS THE CASE AND IF THAT ARGUMENT CARRY THIS IS PARTICULAR CASE THEN ANY TIME A SMALL, INDIVIDUAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO GET WATER OR SEWER AND ANNEX INTO THE CITY, FOR ME FOR THE SAKE OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, WHAT DO I SAY THE NEXT TIME -- AND WE WILL GET ANOTHER CASE LIKE THIS, WE GET THEM ALL THE TIME.
ARE WE SAYING IF YOU'RE NOT CONTIGUOUS AND YOU'RE A SMALL, PRIVATE CITIZEN OR CITIZEN WITH A PRIVATE CITIZEN WITH A SMALL AK RAJ HOLDING THAT FRM HERE ON OUT -- ACREAGE HOLING THAT FROM HERE ON OF THE OUT WE'LL TO UTILITY AND SEWER IF IT'S CONVENIENT BUT NOT ANNEX YOU INTO THE CITY. FOR ME THE ADDITIONAL IS THE TAX -- YEAH, WE PROVIDE SERVICES BUT IT'S THE TAX RENEW THAT COMES ALONG THE ANNEXATION. I JUST WANT TO CAUTION THAT IF QUESTION WILL COME UP IN THE TH- FUTURE THE NEXT TIME WE HAVE ONE O OF THESE -- AND E WE WILL -- A CITIZEN WHO JUST WANTS TO GET IN, ARE WE GOING TO SAY BECAUSE WE HAVE TO SEND FIRE AND POLICE WE'RE JUST GOING TO OFFER YOU UTILITY AS OPPOSED TO ANNEXING YOU AS WELL?
SO WITH THESE I USUALLY JUST VOTE AS IS, BUT I FIND THE OBSERVATIONS COMPELLING BUT PRECEDENT-SETTING OR AT LEAST WILL BE PERCEIVED BY THE PUBLIC AS TAT NEXT TIME WE HAVE A CASE LIKE THIS. THANK YOU. >> THERE WE GO. I APPRECIATE THE DIALOGUE AND I KNOW WE TAKE SERIOUSLY THE CASES WHERE IT'S NOT CONTIGUOUS WITH THE CITY LIMITS. QUESTION FOR STAFF. AS I UNDERSTAND, AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO CITY PARTICIPATION IN THIS. THIS IS THE COST ON THE LANDOWNER TO HOOK UP, RIGHT?
IF I UNDERSTAND THE WATER AND/OR SEWER RUNS ALONG SCHEER ROAD, RIGHT, WICH IS WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED? >> YES. SO ATTACHMENT E, THE UTILITY MAP SHOWS CITY SEWER AND CTY WATER BOTH IN SCHEER. >> SO I MEAN FROM YOUR PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT, ARE WE EXPECTING MOST OF THE LOTS ALONG SCHEER AT SOME POINT TO ASK FOR ANNEXATION? >> I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WILL BE THE CASE. I THINK THAT THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE THAT WATER LINE IS THERE TO CREATE A LOOP AS PART OF THE WATER SYSTEM TO HAVE I FUNCTION PROPERLY, SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS EVER -- I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WOULD BE ENOUGH CONSENSUS AMONG ALL THOSE FOLKS TO VOLUNTARILY SEEK ANNEXATION.
>> BUT THEY MA O YEAH, YEAH AS I UNDERSTAND, WE HAVE A CARVE OUT FOR LIKE ONE OR TWO HOMES THAT CAN'T BE SERVED BY SEPTIC AND WELL THAT IF THEY REQUEST EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE OUTSIDE THE LIMIT WE HAVE A CARVE-OUT FOR THAT, THT WE MAY DO THAT? THAT'S PART OF WHAT W TYPICALLY DO, RIGHT? >> THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CARVE-OUTS AS YOU ALL HEARD THE WATER SEWER AMENDMENT EARLIER. ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WAS NOT LISTED EARLIER BECAUSE IT DIDN'T CHANGE IS ITEM 9 IN THAT SECTION AND THAT IS WHAT SAYS CITY COUNCIL IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION MAY EXCUSE ANNEXATION REQUIREMENT WHEN ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY PURSUANT TO PETITION WOULD CREATE ENCLAVE OR NOT CONTIGUOUS T LIMITS AND ONE OR BOTH OF THE FINDINGS ARE MADE.
FIRST IS THAT IT IS NOT HEF NEW POSITIVE AND SECOND IS THAT THERE WOULD BE NEGATIVE SERVICE IMPACT. >> SO THAT'S THE CASE WHERE -- >> SO YOU ALL WOULD BE DETERMINING THAT BECAUSE THIS IS NOT CONTIGUOUS AND THERE IS A NEGATIVE SERVICE IMPACT HAVING TO SERVE THIS SINGULAR PROPERTY ON THE STREET THAT OTHERWISE IS RECEIVING NO CITY SERVICES, YOU ALL COULD THEN UNDER THT PROVISION, THAT NUMBER NINE, COULD EXCUSE THE ANNEXATION AND ONLY APPROVE THE UTILITY. >> RIGHT. >> AND THEN THEY WOULD PAY DOUBLE WATER/SEWER RATES.
>> THANK YOU. >> OF COURSE A LOT OF THIS IS THAT THE STATE TOOK AWAY OUR POWER TO FOR CITY-INITIATED ANNEXATIONS AND THAT MAKES ALL OF THIS SO MUCH MORE CHALLENGING IS WE HAVE TO SIT HERE AND ANTICIPATE WHETHER ALL OF THESE PARCELS WULD CONSIDER AN NEXTING INTO THE CITY DN ANNEXING INTO THE CITY VOLUNTARILY. ON THE ONE HAND, TO THE MAYOR PRO TEM'S POINT, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE DON'TNESSLY -- IF EVERYONE ALONG THE ROAD SAW THEIR NEIGHBOR TAP INTO THE WATER AND THE SEWER AND THEY GOT THOSE SERVICES WITHOUT ANNEXING INTO THE CITY, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD CAUSE A CASCADING E EFFECT WHERE EACH MAYBE TAPS INTO WITHOUT ANNEXING IN THE CITY AND WE LOSE OUT ON THAT AND TO THE MAYOR PRO TEM'S POINT, YOU KNOW WE LOSE OUT ON THAT SIDE OF THE LEDGER, RIGHT?
AND THAT WOULD BE A SITUATION WHERE BECAUSE OF ITS LOCATION CLOSE TO MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE. IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO PROVIDE CITY SERVICES. HOWEVER, IF JUST ONE PARCEL -- AND IF P WE SEE THIS ALL OVER THE CITY -- AND THIS ONE IS UNIQUE COMPARED TO ANYTHING I'VE SEEN UP HERE -- WERE TO ANNEX IN, I MEAN, AND TO STAFF QUESTION HERE: IF THIS IS ANNEXED INTO THE CITY, WOULD THEY GET SOLID WASTE SERVICE? WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO PUT THEIR TRASH OUT AND GET PICKUP?
SO THE TRUCK WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY OUT THERE, ALL WAY UP SCHEER, GO TO THE ONE PARCEL, PICK UP THE TRASH, AND DRIVE ALL THE WAY DOWN. THAT IS SO INEFFICIENT. SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT ADDITIONAL TAX BASE BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LEDGER IS PROVIDING THE SERVICES IS THAT MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAT YO'RE ACTUALLY LOSING OUT, AND SO, AGAIN, I MEAN, THERE'S -- WE'RE KIND OF BETWEEN A ROCK AN HARD PLACE ON THIS ONE BECAUSE OF THE STATE'S TAKING AWAY LOCAL GOVERNMENT ABILITY TO INITIATE ANNEXATIONS.
SO I'M WRESTLING WITH THIS ONE A LOT. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE MAYOR PRO TEM'S COMMENTS. I SUPPOSE I AM STILL LEANING TOWARD UTILITY EXTENSION, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR OTHER COLLEAGUES HAVE ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS. >> QUICK QUESTION. I HAVE A STUPID QUESTION. SO WHAT HAPPENS IF THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR CATCHES ON FIRE? >> IF THE HOUSE IN THE COUNTY CATCHES ON FIRE? >> YEAH. >> SO THEY CALL 911, AND 911 DISPATCHES IT AND WHOEVER IS CLOSEST AND ABLE TO ATTEND TO THE FIRE WOULD ATTEND TO THE FIRE.
>> ELABORATE ON THAT JUST TO SAY FIRE SERVICE THROUGH -- >> THAT'S MY POINT. WE'RE FIRST. >> THERE ARE STLL VOLUNTEER IN THE COUNTY. BUT IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE FIRST AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF MUTUAL A AID AGREEMENTS. >> SO MY POINT IS THIS IS THE ARCHAIC PART OF GOVERNMENT I DON'T UNDERSTAND AND I NOTICE THIS WHEN I SAT IN 911 AND SOMEONE CALLED IN WITH A LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCY AND AFTER SPENDING ABOUT 45 SECONDS EXPLAINING WHAT'S GOING ON, THE OPERATOR SAID PLEASE HOLD AND LET ME SEND YOU TO CHAPEL HILL AND THEN THEY HAD TO EXPLAIN IT POINT WE SEND THE DAMN TRUCK.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT, BUT I THINK THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WITH TRULY HAVE TO DO BELT BETTER WITH GOVERNMENT. WE'RE SITTING HERE TALKING ABOUT WHO'S FIRE OR EMS IS GOING TO RESPOND TO 911 CALL WHETHER IT'S THIS HOUSE OR NEXT ONE AND IT DOESN'T MAKE LOGICAL SENSE TO ME SO MAYBE I'M -- >> [INDISCERNIBLE]. >> OKAY. I DON'T THINK THIS IS COMPLICATED AS IT APPARS, BUT, ACTUALLY, COUNCIL MEMBER CABALLERO, THEN I'LL COME BACK OVER TO MAYOR PRO TEM.
>> I'M LEANING JUST TOWARD UTILITY EXTENSION AND ANNEXATION BECAUSE THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE'VE DONE IT AND SO I'M GOING TO CONTINUE ON THAT PATTERN. I DO WANT TO SPEAK TO THE FORCED ANNEXATION AND PART OF THE REASON IT GOT STRIPPED IS BECAUSE MUNICIPALITIES CRAZY WITH THEIR POWER ABOUT FORCE TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING FORCED ANNEXATION. I THINK IT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHERE YOUR POWER AND LIMITATIONS OF POWER OF AND WHAT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT YOU SIT. I REMEMBER BEING FORCEFULLY ANNEXED WHEN I LIVED IN MACLINBERG COUNTY.
OUR TAXES WENT UP. I THINK IT CUTS BOTH WAYS. ANY WAY, I WILL BE VOTING FOR BOTH ANNEXATION AND UTILITY EXTENSION SINCE COLLEAGUES HAVE ASKED. >> PART OF INSPIRATION CAME OUT OF DURHAM FOLKS. THEY USE US AS AN EXAMPLE A LOT. MAYOR PRO TEM. >> I REALLY APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES' COMMENTS. IF LIFE AND PROPERTY ARE IN PEARL, WE -- PERIL, WE WILL DEPLOY. AND WE SHOULD. I APPRECIATE COUNCIL MEMBER BAKER'S -- I REALLY DO -- POINT. AND I APPRECIATE COUNCIL MEMBER COOK'S POINTS AS WELL.
I REALLY KIND OF TO KIND OF FURTHER COMPLICATE MATTERS, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT BECAUSE MAYBE THE APPLICANT GOING MAY NOT WANT UTILITIES APART FROM ANNEXATION. I'M SPECULATING. I'D KIND OF LIKE TO HEAR IF THEY HEARD THAT, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? WHAT WAS THEIR DESIRE? WHAT, WHAT, -- SORRY? OH. WHAT, THE, THEIR RATIONALE FOR ANNEX - I MEAN WE CAN SPECULATE AND PUT WORDS TO THEM, BUT PARTICULARLY SINCE AGAIN THIS IS NOT A DEVELOPER REPRESENTED BY A TEAM OF ATTORNEYS, THIS APPEARS TO BE A, SMALL-LEVEL IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT, SMALL LOT, SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
P THIS DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A BIG MULTINATIONAL -- THE TYPE OF INTEREST THAT WE RESERVE, YOU KNOW, HIGHER LEEL OF SCRUTINY FOR AND HIGHER LEVEL OF, YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATION FOR. I WOULD JUST HATE TO BURDEN, YOU KNOW, REGULAR RESIDENT, BY NOT FIRST HEARING THEM S I'M PREPARED TO VOTE AS COUNCIL MEMBER CABALLERO SAID FOR UTILITY AND, ANNEXATION, BUT IF WE WERE GONG TO SPLIT IT UP, THEN I WOULD WANT TO HEAR -- I WOULD RATHER WAIT TO HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, BUT I IMAGINE, I WOULD RATHER JUST WAIT AND S- HEAR FROM THEM FOR MY OWN BENEFIT BUT IF WE VOTE TONIGHT I SUPPORT ANNEXATION AND UTILITY EXTENSION. THANK YOU ALL. >> SAME HERE. GO AHEAD. >> STAFF, YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE APPLICANT, I ASSUME. DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION? THE ONE PURSUING THE ANNEXATION IS NOT GOING BE THE ONE LIVING AT THAT PHYSICAL ADDRESS. HE IS REPRESENTING THE INDIVIDUAL LAND OWNER WHO WILL BUILD A HOME AND LIVE THERE.
SO I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW IF HE COULD SPEAK ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO WHETHER OR NOT THE FUTURE LAND OWNER WOULD WANT THOSE UTILITIES. >> ALL RIGHT. OTHER QUESTIONS? >> I WASN'T GOING DIE ON THIS HILL. IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE WAS SPEAKING DID NOT -- THERE WAS NO REQUEST AT TE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR ANY OF THE OTHER SERVICES. IT REALLY WAS LIKE HE WAS THE PLOT IS TOO SMALL FOR ME TO HAVE SEPTIC SO I CANNOT CONSTRUCT WHAT I NEED TO CON STROUKT THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON AND ME LOOKING AT THIS COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, I JUST DON'T SEE THAT THERE'S LIKE A HUGE BENEFIT IN TAX MONEY TO THEN -- AND TO YOUR POINT, MAYOR PRO TEM, LIKE, I IMAGINE PROBABLY IF THERE'S A FIRE, WE ALREADY ARE GOING OUT THERE BECAUSE THAT IS HOW WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE COUNTY AND THERE'S A VOUNTEER FIREFIGHTERER, THERE'S BEEN SOMEWHAT OF A MERGER NOT EXACTLY, BUT WE DO TEND TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE CITY RANGE AND.
WE'RE GOING TO PUT THAT FIRE OUT ANYWAY SO FOR ME IT'S NOT LIKE THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE WHICH ALREADY EXISTS IT'S LIKE THE DAY-TO-F DAY THING LIKE THE GOING OUT AND COLLECTING TRASH, YARD WASTE, THAT IS THE STUFF I'M THINKING OF WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT COST BENEFIT. THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR HIM AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE I WANTED TO FOLLOW-UP ON THAT QUESTION. I'M NOT LIKE SUPER ATTACHED. TO SME DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A GOOD -- CAN IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A BIG ADD TO THE CITY IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEND BUT I THINK IT'S ALSO VERY SMALL, SO.
>> ALL RIGHT. LAST QUESTION. PROMISE. TO STAFF. AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IF OTHER PROPERTIES ALNG THAT STREET ARE TAP INTO THE WATER OR SEWER OR DO YOU THINK THEY MIGHT -- AND THE REASON I ASK THAT QUESTION IS WOULD THEY POTENTIALLY SEE THEIR NEIGHBOR ANNEXING INTO THE CITY, SEE THE BENEFITS, AND THEN THE ALSO WANT TO ANNEX INTO THE CITY? >> SO WE DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A FACT, BUT PEYTON JUST CONFIRMED THAT PUBLIC WORKS DID NOT RAISE THAT AS AN ISSUE WHEN THEY DID THEIR REVIEW THAT THERE WERE OTHER SIMILARLY-SITUATED PROPERTIES.
>> MEANT TO VERIFY MY -- AGAIN, EXCELLENT POINTS FROM 34I COLLEAGUES AND COUNCIL MEMBER COOK IS SPOT-ON. INC. MENTALLY ON A CASE-BY-CASE, THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE A HUGE IMPACT TO TAX BASE, BUT THEY ADD UP OVERTIME AS YOU STRING THESE CASES TOGETHER. I'M BEING VERY TRANSPORT. WE GOAT MAKE CHOICES AS GOVERNMENT SOMETIMES TO HELP OUR PEOPLE, AND I JUST TEND TO -- WHEN THESE CASES COME BEFORE US, WE DO SO MUCH FOR BIG MULTINATIONAL CORP. SO MUCH THAT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WHEN A CITIZEN COMES ALONG WHO THEY JUST WANT TO BUILD A HOUSE, IT MAY NT ACCRUE TO US IMMEDIATELY A WIND FALL, BUT I THINK THERE ARE SOME OTHER WAYS IN WHICH IT ACCRUES TO US AS A CITY AND I'M BEING VERY TRANSPORT.
FOR ME THIS IS A ABOUT A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO WANTS SOME HELP, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM, BUT THERE'S NO REFUTE TO THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS. MATH IS MATH, BUT THERE'S JUST A LITTLE MORE INVOLVED HERE FOR ME. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. YES, MA'AM. >> THANK YOU. I THINK JUST BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING I'LL JUST NOTE THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS IN THE PAST AND UNDERSTANDING THE GENERAL LEGISLATURE'S STANCE WE WON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK AND ANNEX IF WE DON'T TONIGHT, SO, I'M GOING LEAN TOWARDS THE ANNEXATION.
>> ALL RIGHT. LOOK AT US COMING TOGETHER ON SOMETHING. ALL RIGHT. I'LL NOW ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING 'ROMERO RESIDENCE' INTO THE CITY OF DURHAM AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT WITH JORGE JACOBO ROMERO AND GUADALUPE LOPEZ JUAREZ. >> SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> ALL RIGHT. I'LL ALSO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BY TAKING PROPERTY OUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN-20, FALLS/JORDAN DISTRICT B WATERSHED OVERLAY, COUNTY JURISDICTION AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME AS RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN-20, FALLS/JORDAN DISTRICT B WATERSHED OVERLAY, CITY JURISDICTION.
>> SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES 6-1 WITH COUNCIL MEMBER COOK VOTING NO. >> THANK YOU. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY N.C.G.S. SEC. 160D-605. >> MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 19. CONSOLIDATED ITEM - PAGE/MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT. YOU CAN ADJUST THAT SO YOU CAN BE COMFORTABLE.
THE MIKE. >> USUALLY THERE'S A SIGN THAT SAYS DON'T TOUCH THIS. GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS KAYLA SEIBEL, SENIOR PLANNER WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. I AM HERE TO SUMMARIZE THE PAGE/MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT - CONSOLIDATED ITEM. THE DURHAM CITY-COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS PREPARED A ZONING MAP CHANGE FOR THE PAGE/MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT, AN AREA SOUTHEAST OF RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (RTP) BETWEEN NC HIGHWAY 54, DAVIS DRIVE, HOPSON ROAD, PAGE ROAD, AND SOUTH MIAMI BOULEVARD. SINCE THIS PROPOSAL IS A STAFF INITIATED REZONING THE CITY IS THE APPLICANT IN THIS CASE.
FOR BACKGROUND, STAFF WAS ASKED BY MEMBERS OF THE JOINT CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMITTEE TO TAKE ON THIS EFFORT IN ADVANCE OF THE NEW UDO. WE FOLLOW THE SAME PROCEDURES AS THE TYPICAL REZONINGS. THE PURPOSE OF THE NEW ZONING IS TO ENCOURAGE TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, SUPPORT FUTURE PUBLICLY FUNDED MULTIMODAL PROJECTS (LIKE BUS RAPID TRANSIT, PASSENGER RAIL, OR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS), AND PROMOTE EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT USING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS. DUE TO NEW STATE LEGISLATION WHICH IS EXCERPTED IN ATTACHMENT J, DUE TO NEW STATE LEGISLATION (WHICH IS EXCERPTED IN ATTACHMENT J), STAFF REQUESTED CONSENT FROM PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE PROJECT AREA TO CHANGE THE ZONING.
THIS REZONING PROPOSAL PRESENTED TO YOU TODAY IS NOT AS COMPREHENSIVE AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED -- WHICH IS WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED IN OCTOBER -- AND ENCOMPASSES 25.41 ACRES, AS STAFF WAS UNABLE TO GAIN CONSENT FROM ALL PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE PROJECT AREA. HOWEVER T FOLKS WHO HAVE OPTED IN ARE INTERESTED IN THE REZONING, HAVE PROJECTS IN PROCESS, O OR WOULD SOON HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE THEIR PROJECTS. SPECIFICALLY, THE REQUESTED CHANGES ARE SHOWN IN YOUR CONTEXT MAPS AIR, TAMPMENT D SHOWING FIVE CLUSTERS OF REZONINGS FROM COMMERCIAL GENERAL AND LIGHT INDUSTRIAL TO COMPACT SUBURBAN DESIGN CORE, OFFICE AND INSTITUTION TO MULTIFAMILY AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH TEXT DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS RURAL RESIDENCE DEN STHOOL COME FACT SUBURBAN DESIGN DISTRICT SUPPORT 1.
FINALLY, PLACE TYPE AMENDMENTS AND TEXT AMENDMENT CONCURRENTLY WITH THE REZONING. WITH THAT BRIEF SUMMARY, I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. >> YES. Javiera Caballero. >> THANK YOU. THIS IS A QUESTION FOR STAFF. SO I KNOW THAT WE ARE LIKE INDIVIDUALLY APPROACHING PROPERTY OWNERS BECAUSE OF CHANGES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND SO BECAUSE IT WAS A SMALLER AREA WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT. WOULD FOLKS BE ABLE MAYBE THEY MISS THEIR WINDOW BUT THEY WANT TO OPT IN LATER; ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT?
>> GREAT QUESTION. THE PLAN IS THAT THE NEW UDO WITH THE UPDATED ZONING MAP WILL PULL IN THE REST OF THOSE PROPERTIES. >> THAT'S GREAT. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF WHO WORKED O ON THIS. THIS DID COME FROM JCCPC. THIS IS EXCITING, WHAT WE WANT TO SEE, THERE'S A LOT OF TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS AREA WHICH IS WHY WE ASKED FOR IT, SO GOOD DAY IN DURHAM. >> LIKEWISE. I LOVE THE PROACTIVE SORT OF ELEMENT ON THIS ON THE PART OF THAT.
GOOD JOB. EXCITING. THANK YOU. >> ECHO MY COLLEAGUES UP HERE. THE MORE PROPERTY WE CAN CAN PUT INTO ZONE DISTRICTS LIKE THIS, THE BETTER. THE MORE PEDESTRIAN AND TRANSIT-ORIENTED WE CAN BE AS A CITY MOVING FORWARD. AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN LOOK BACK IN THE FUTURE AT THIS AS A POSITIVE CASE STUDY FOR RETROFITTING SU BURR BY YEAH AND SLOWLY EVOLVING AN AREA THAT IS SUPER AUTO ORIENTED TO ONE THAT ISLESS AND PROVIDED ADDITIONAL WAYS OF REALISTICALLY AND SAFELY GETTING AROUND. I APPRECIATE YOU ALSO CLARIFYING TO Javiera Caballero'S QUESTION HOW THINGS WILL E EVOLVE IN THE REST OF THIS DEFINED AREA.
SO THANKS AGAIN FO THE GREAT WORK, AND LOOK FORWARD TO VOTING YES ON THIS ITEM. >> DID WE OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING? I THINK THERE'S A SPEAKER. OKAY. >> I HAVEN'T OPENED IT YET. >> OKAY. JUST -- >> GOOD? ALL RIGHT AT THIS TIME, I WILL DECLARE THIS PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. WE HAVE THE APPLICANT HERE. MR. JEWEL, HOW MUCH TIME? >> I'M NOT THE APPLICANT. THE CITY IS THE APPLICANT. >> SORRY. YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT. THE CITY IS THE APPLICANT. >> I HAVE PREPARED REMARKS BUT KI READ THE TEA LEAVES AND KNOW THE BEST THING YOU CAN SAY IS NOTHING, SO, PLEASE DO WELL.
THIS IS A GREAT PROPOSAL. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL CITY, WE'RE THE APPLICANT. ANYTHING WE WANT TO SAY -- NOT.
CLOSED SESSION -- IN THE PUBLIC HEARING. THIS IS GREAT. >> MY THREE MINUTES. >> ALL RIGHT. OH, I COULD ACTUALLY LIMIT THREE MINUTES TO COUNCIL MEMBER COOK ON THIS. ALL RIGHT. COOL. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. NO OTHER COMMENTS? AT THIS TIME I DECLARE THS PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED AND BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. NO OTHER COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE, INCORPORATING REVISIONS TO ARTICLE 11, SIGN STANDARDS AND ARTICLE 16, DESIGN DISTRICTS. >> MOVED.
>> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. AND SECONDLY, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT -- WAIT, ONE SECOND. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SECONDLY, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY N.C.G.S. SEC. 160D-605 FOR TC2400002. >> MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> ALL RIGHT.
I DIDN'T SEE THAT. MOTION THREE, TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BY TAKING PROPERTY OUT OF COMMERCIAL GENERAL WITH A DEVELOPMENT PLAN, INDUSTRIAL LIGHT WITH A DEVELOPMENT PLAN, OFFICE AND INSTITUTIONAL WITH A DEVELOPMENT PLAN, AND RESIDENTIAL RURAL ZONING DISTRICTS AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME AS COMPACT SUBURBAN DESIGN CORE, COMPACT SUBURBAN DESIGN SUPPORT 1, RESIDENTIAL URBAN MULTIFAMILY, AND COMMERCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A DEVELOPMENT PLAN. >> MOVED AS READ. >> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE.
THAT MOTION JUST. -- PLEASE CLOSE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THIS MOTIONING IS WHY I DIGIT GO TO PLANNING SCHOOL. THIS IS CRAZY. IT'S LIKE LEARNING POLICE CODES. MOTION FOUR, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY N.C.G.S. SEC. 160D-60 FOR Z2400018. >> MOVED ADOPT SECOND IS I. >> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> AND LASTLY, MOTION FIVE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION 19 MOTION 5: TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE DURHAM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BY TAKING PROPERTY OUT OF THE TRANSIT OPPORTUNITY AREA PLACE TYPE AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME AS MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE TYPES.
>> MOVED. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDEDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. NEXT ITEM. 20. TC2400003: A PRIVATELY INITIATED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT. READY TO HEAR FROM STAFF. COOL NEW HAIRCUT. >> THANK YOU. DID THAT MYSELF. GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS ROBIN SCHULTZE WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. I AM HERE TO PRESENT ON TC2400003, WHICH IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED TEXT AMENDMENT. THIS TEXT AMENDMENT SEEKS TO AMEND SEC. 3.26 OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE, WHICH GOVERNS STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS.
STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS ARE ENTERED INTO BETWEEN THE CITY (OR COUNTY) AND AN APPLICANT; THESE AGREEMENTS ARE INTENDED TO PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL ZONING PRACTICES. THIS TEXT AMENDMENT IS SEEKING TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITY WITHIN THOSE AGREEMENTS BY ALLOWING ALTERATIONS WITHIN UDO SEC. 8.3, TREE COVERAGE AND TREE PROTECTION TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THOSE AGREEMENTS. NOTE THAT STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS ARE LEGISLATIVE DECISIONS, AND ARE SUBJECT TO A PUBLIC HEARING. EACH AGREEMENT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE DISCRETION OF THE APPROPRIATE GOVERNING BODY. LASTLY, THIS REQUEST IS CONCURRENT WITH CASE Z2400027, PAGE CORNERS, A ZONING MAP CHANGE WITH AN ASSOCIATED STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
THESE REQUESTS ARE INTERDEPENDENT, BUT THIS REQUEST IS COMING BEFORE YOU FIRST BECAUSE THE PAGE CORNERS PROJECT CANNOT BE APPROVED UNLESS THIS TEXT AMENDMENT IS APPROVED (OR MAJOR AMENDMENTS TO THE PROJECTS ARE PROPOSED). BOTH STAFF AND THE APPLICANT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE STAFF REPORT. ANY QUESTIONS? -- FOR STAFF? ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME THE I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. WELCOME. >> GOOD EVENING. >> HOW MUCH TIE? >> THREE MINUTES, SIR. >> PUT FIVE MINUTES. THANK YOU. WELCOME.
>> PATRICK BYKER, 2614 STEWART DRIVE. ATTORNEY WITH MORNINGSTAR LAW GROUP REPRESENTING LINCOLN AVENUE COMMUNITY. MR. BRYAN MA LOWNY IS HERE WITH US AS WELL. WE ARE NEAR SUPPORT OF THIS TEXT AMENDMENT WHICH IFRN TURN SUPPORT NEXT AGENDA ITEM. THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM REPLAITS TO PAGE CORNERS 100% AFFORDABLE TO PERSONS EARNING UP TO 60% AMI. TO THAT END, THE City Council WILL CONSIDER THIS EVENING WHAT WILL BE THE THIRD DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF DURHAM IF WE ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RECEIVE YOUR APPROVAL.
IN REGARD TO THIS AGENDA ITEM RELATING TO THIS TEXT AMENDMENT, UDO 3.26 POINT B.3 STATE A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SHALL NOT REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS WITHIN -- FOR THE FIRST TWO DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THIS IS LIMITATION WAS NOT AN ISSUE. FIRST DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT THE City Council APPROVED FAMILY ON OCTOBER 19, 2020, WAS TO SUPPORT A LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT-FUNDED 82-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX ON E CRESCENT IN SOUTHWEST DURHAM IN THE COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER. ABOUT TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS LATER ON MARCH 20, 2023, THE CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE SECOND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SO THAT A MARKET-RATE APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT ON CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD WOULD PROVIDE THE GAP FINANCING FOR 66 LOW-INCOME HOUSING FUNDED APARTMENTS IN BRAGGTOWN.
THOSE 66 APARTMENTS ARE WITHIN A MIXED INCOME DEVELOPMENT IN BRAGGTOWN CONTAINING 134 ACRES. NOW THIS EVENING SLIGHTLY MORE THAN TWO YEARS AFTER THE SECOND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, OUR PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENT IS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS SMALLER SITES IN THE SUBURBAN TIER WHICH I THINK REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF THE POTENTIAL SITES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN DURHAM. OUR PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENT STATES, QUOTE, A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SHALL NOT REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS WITHIN ARTICLE 4 ZONING DISTRICTS AND ARTICLE 8 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SECTION 8.3 TREE PROTECTION AND TREE COVERAGE UNQUOTE.
WE HOPE CITY COUNCIL WILL APPROVE THIS TEXT AMENDMENT SINCE IT WILL SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR SMALLER INFILL SITES IN SUBURBAN TIER. I WANT TO THANK THE PLANNING DIRECTOR AND OUR POINT PERSON RO ROBIN SCHULTZE FOR THEIR ATTENTION TO THIS. TIM AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. WE ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. >> TANK YOU. THOSE ARE THE ALL THE SPEAKERS I HAVE SO AT THIS TIME I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. COLLEAGUES.
COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. >> THANK YOU. I JUST A QUESTION, PLEASE. I'M STRUGGLING, JUST HELP ME. EXPLAIN HOW THIS REMOVING THE TREE COVERAGE WOULD SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. >> IT'S BECAUSE THE TREE COVERAGE STANDARDS VARY SO MUCH FROM THE URBAN TIER AND THE COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER WHICH IS ONLY 7% TO THE SUBURBAN TIER WHICH IS 20%. PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS THE FIRST ONE THAT I HOPE YOU REMEMBER ON CRESCENT DRIVE BACK IN 2019 OR 2020 SINCE I WAS IN THE COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER IT WAS ONLY 7% REQIREMENT.
IF WE WERE IN THE COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER AS YOU JUST APPROVED A MILE FURTHER SOTH ON PAGE ROAD, SIMILARLY, WE WOULDN'T NEED THIS TEXT AMENDMENT BUT BECAUSE YOU IN SUBURBAN TIER THERE'S 20%. THERE NEEDS TO BE FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW FOR TO SUPPORT LOW INCOME TAX CREDITS. >> EXPLAIN WHY IT DOESN'T SAY DECREASE FROM 20% TO 7%? >> TO JUST MAKE IT FLEXIBLE SO IT COULD BE 7%, 8%, 9%. IT WOULD DEPEND ON EACH SIDE. WE DIDN'T WANT TO LIMIT IT TO SPECIFIC NUMBER IT'S JUST FOR FLEXIBLE TO COUNCIL CAN CONSIDER THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OVERALL AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT.
>> THAT HELPS. THANK YOU. >> ANY QUESTIONS? GO AHAD. >> I THINK I UNDERSTAND THIS BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM FOLLOWING. SO THE NUMBER COULD BE WHATEVER IS PRESENTED EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT HAS TO BE APPROVED BY COUNCIL; IS THAT CORRECT? >> CORRECT, YEP. JUST CHANGING SO THAT A STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WHENEVER IT COMES BEFORE YOU, YOU HAVE TH OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THAT PERCENTAGE. IT DOESN'T LOK IT IN AT 7% FOR EVERY STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. IT ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE PERCENTAGE AT ALL THROUGH THAT PROCESS WHICH YOU CAN'T CURRENTLY DO.
>> SO COULD ANY DEVELOPMENT ACCESS THIS REQUEST? >> ONLY THOSE WHICH GO THROUGH A STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WHICH HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING AND COME BEFORE YOU OR BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER. >> BUT ALL THE ONES WE SEE COULD? >> IF IT GOES THROUGH THIS SPECIFIC PROCESS, NOT LIKE A REZONING. >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOU CAN'T LEAVE 20% OF THE TREES? >> IF YOU WOULD DEFER THAT QUESTION TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM I'LL BE HAPPY TO GO INTO IT IN BREATH-TAKING DETAIL.
>> WELL, I HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS ONE FIRST. >> IT'S BECAUSE OUR STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES, MANDATORY PARKING, ETC THAT'S MANDATES SO WHEN YOU ADD UP THE PARKING, STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES, THOSE FACETS OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY LOCKED IN, BY THE NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, THERE IS NOT 20% OF THE SITE LEFT OVER. >> THIS MIGHT BE ANOTHER STAFF QUESTION. WHEN WE GET TO THE NEXT VOTE ON PAGE CORNERS -- IS THAT WHAT IT'S CALLED? DO WE TAKE UP THE PERCENTAGE AGAIN?
>> SO THIS IS JUST IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU -- >> -- CAN MAKE IT UP IN THE FUTURE? >> EXACTLY. >> THEN THE REQUEST WILL BE MADE FOR THE 7% AS OPPOSED TO 20%. >> RIGHT. AS PART OF A THAT AGREEMENT SO THEN YOU CAN THEN MAKE YOUR NEGOTIATION AT THAT POINT OR ASK FURTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT SPECIFIC PERCENTAGE. >> THANK YOU. >> YEAH, ON ITS SURFACE IT GIVES ME SLIGHT HEARTBURN BUT I MEAN THS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, WE LOVE DEVELOPERS TO COME FORWARD WITH DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS.
NOTHING CHANGES BY-RIGHT IN THE UNDERLINING ZONING, I MEAN I THINK YOU'VE LAID OUT MANY OF THE ISSUES SO I AM COMFORTABLE WITH THIS, I'LL BE VOTING YES ON IT AND ENCOURAGING DEVELOPERS TO USE THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. THANK YOU. >> THIS IS A QUESTION FOR STAFF. HI. SO THIS ONLY CHANGES OUR CURRENT UDO. WHAT'S THE PLAN IF IT IS APPROVED WITH THE YOU CAN DO? WOULD WE CARRY THIS FORWARD? IS THAT THE PLAN IF IT IS APPROVED? >> ABSOLUTELY. GIVEN THIS IS SO CLOSE TO ADOPTION OF THE NEW UDO THAT WE WOULD TAKE THIS AS A SIGN FRM YOU ALL THS IS A TOOL YOU'D LIKE IN THE TOOL BOX SO WE'D CARRY IT OVER UNLESS WE HEARD OTHERWISE THROUGHOUT THE REWRITE ARE PROCESS BUT GIVEN THAT HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ADOPTING SOME TIME IN THE "NOT SO DISTANCE" FUTURE I THINK WE'D TRY TO TAKE -- YEP.
>> THANK YOU. >> RIST. >> I WAS GOING TO CALL THE QUESTION UNLESS YOU HAVE -- >> I LOOK FORWARD TOW SUPPORTING THIS. I'M GLAD TO SEE WE ARE FLEXIBLE ON TREE COVERAGE AND TREE PROTECTION FOR THE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO US. I THINK IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT WE'RE CODIFYING STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WE'RE CODIFYING SOME FLEXIBILITY, I THINK IT'S [INDISCERNIBLE] CASES WE'VE HA BEFORE US WHERE WITHOUT A STATUTORY AGREEMENT, DEVELOPERS WOULD HAVE BEEN COMPELLED TO MEET ALL OF THE YOU CAN DO REQUIREMENTS STILL GIVE US SOME AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS AND IN SOME CASES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO I HOPE THAT WE WON'T E NESTTIZE OURSELF CODIFYING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FAR EXCEEDS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED BEFORE US BY PROFFER BY DEVELOPERS WITH THOSE PROFFERS AND STILL KEEPING ALL OF THE TREE PROTECTION AND TREE COVERAGE BY UDO AND STILL GIVING MONEY AND AFFORDABLE UNITS AND STILL IN SOME CASES PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS NEXT PAGE CORNER'S GOING TO DO ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP IN MIND KEEP INTENTION SOME OF THE SUFF THAT WE'RE GETTING WITH TREE COVERAGE AND TREE PROTECTION BY PROFFER AS POSED TO KIND OF THE ATTRACTION OF THE STATUTORY AGREEMENT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BUT WE NEED TO HOLD THOSE INTENTION WITH THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE OF THINGS THAT ARE COMING BEFORE US BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THIS.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU, APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS. -- ALL RIGHT. SO AT THIS TIME I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE, INCORPORATING REVISIONS TO ARTICLE 3 APPLICATIONS AND PERMITS. >> MOVED AS READ. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. AND I'LL ALSO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY NCGS SEC. 160D-605.
>> MOVE TO ADOPT CONSISTENCY. >> SECOND. >> Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> ALL RIGHT, NEXT ITEM: 21. CONSOLIDATED ANNEXATION - PAGE CORNERS. >> MAYOR WILLIAMS, MAYOR PRO TEM MIDDLETON, AND HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD EVENING, I AM ANDY LESTER WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT. A REQUEST FOR A UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT, VOLUNTARY ANNEXATION, INITIAL ZONING MAP CHANGE, AND STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM TIM SIVERS, OF QUNITY, FOR TWO PARCELS OF LAND TOTALING 7.602 ACRES AND LOCATED AT 4004 AND 4110 PAGE ROAD.
THIS ANNEXATION PETITION IS FOR A CONTIGUOUS EXPANSION OF THE PRIMARY CORPORATE LIMITS. THE CURRENT ZONING IS RESIDENTIAL RURAL AND COMMERCIAL CENTER. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES TO CHANGE THIS DESIGNATION TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT RESIDENTIAL 22.456 WITH A TEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS REQUEST PROPOSES A MAXIMUM OF 160 MULTI-FAMILY APARTMENT DWELLING UNITS THROUGH A COMMITTED STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WHEREBY 100 PERCENT OF THE 160 DWELLINGS WOULD BE INCOME-RESTRICTED UNITS FOR HOUSEHOLDS AT 60 PERCENT AMI OR LESS FOR A 30-YEAR AFFORDABILITY TENURE. PURSUANT TO NCGS CHAPTER 160D, ARTICLE 10, A MUNICIPALITY MAY ENTER INTO A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH AN ENTITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY THROUGH ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE BY THE GOVERNING BODY.
A PUBLIC HEARING HELD BY THE GOVERNING BODY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS REQUIRED PRIOR TO ACTING ON THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. UNDER THE TERMS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, PAGE ROAD APARTMENTS, LP, WILL RECEIVE REDUCTIONS IN UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PROJECT BOUNDARY BUFFERS, OPEN SPACE, AND TREE COVERAGE, AND AN INCREASE IN ALLOWED FENCE HEIGHT. IF APPROVED, THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE COMMUNITY BENEFITS IN THE FORM OF 160 INCOME-RESTRICTED1 UNITS, TWO ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS, NATIVE TREES FOR ALL NEW TREE PLANTINGS, A MAXIMUM OF 70% IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA FOR THE SITE, AND AT LEAST TWO RECREATIONAL AMENITIES.
THE PROPERTIES ARE CURRENTLY DESIGNATED NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ON THE PLACE TYPE MAP. THE PROPOSED PDR 22.456 ZONING IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE DESIGNATED PLACE TYPE. IF THE PROPOSED ZONING IS APPROVED, STAFF RECOMMEND A CHANGE TO THE PLACE TYPE MAP TO DESIGNATE THE PROPERTY AS APARTMENT & TOWNHOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU, STAFF AND THE APPLICANT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU SO HUTCH. YOU'VE HEARD THE STAFF REPORT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. WELCOME BACK, MR. BYKER.
NO, I'M SORRY. I AM SO SORRY, GUYS. I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. ALL RIGHT. HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU BELIEVE YOU NEED? >> PROBABLY ABOUT SIX MINUTES. >> LET'S PUT TEN MINUTES ON, PLEASE. >> GOOD EVENING. I'M PATRICK BYKER ON STEWART DRIVE AN ATTORNEY WITH MORNINGSTAR LAW GROUP REPRESENTING LINK CON AVENUE COMMUNITIES FOR THIS ITEM. I'M JOINED MY BRYAN MALONEY WHICH IS BASED IN CALIFORNIA AND ALSO BY TIM SIVERS OUR LAND PLANNING AND SITE ENGINEER FOR THIS OUTSTANDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CALLED PAGE CORNERS.
CAGE CORNERS IS A SUPERB INFILL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MOST PART IS SURROUNDED BY OTHER RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS WITH WITH APARTMENTS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF CHIN PAGE, TOWN HOUSES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF PAGE ROAD, AND SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ON APPROXIMATELY 1/10 OF AN ACRE LOTS TO THE WEST. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE OUR NET DEVELOPABLE AREA IS JUST OVER SEVEN ACRES. OUR GOAL IS TO BUILD FOUR STORY BUILDINGS THAT WILL CONTAIN 160 APARTMENTS ALL OF WHICH -- ALL 160 -- WILL BE AFFORD B8 FO DURHAM RESIDENTS WHO ARE AT OR BELOW 60% AMI.
>> SUSPEND. DID YOU JUST ELUDE TO A SLIDE? IS THERE SOMETHING SUPPOSED TO BE ON THAT? >> IT'S ON MY SCREEN. DARN. >> ALL RIGHT. >> I'M JUST SITTING HERE LISTENING TO YOU. >> IT'S A NICE SLIDE. >> ALL RIGHT. >> YEAH. JUST TO GIVE YOU A BREAKDOWN ON A THOSE 160 APARTMENTS, 16 WILL BE ONE BEDROOMS. 64 WILL BE TWO-BEDROOMS. 64 WILL BE THREE-BEDROOMS AND ANOTHER 16 WILL BE FOUR-BEDROOMS. PAGE CORNERS WILL BE FINANCING WITH A 4% LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.
THE DURHAM PLACE-TYPE MAP DESIGNATES THIS AS NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE AREA. UNFORTUNATELY THE PRESENCE OF BRIER CREEK JUST O OVER A MILE AWAY MAKES COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT HERE UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED AS THE ZONING ATTORNEY FOR THE OVER 400 ACRE BETHPAGE DEVELOPMENT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF CHIN PAGE ROAD WE HAD 20 ACRES AT THE CORNER OF PAGE AND CHIN PAGE ZONED COMMERCIAL SINCE 2007 AND WE COULD NOT LOCATE ANY ANCHOR TENANTS FOR THAT SITE. LIKEWISE OE OF THE HARDEST TASKS FACING AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPERS IS LOCATING A SITE AND GETTING IT UNDER CONTRACT.
SINCE AFFORDABLE DEVELOPERS HAVE TO COMPETE WITH MARKET RATE APARTMENT DEVELOPMENTS FOR LAND TO BUILD ON WE'RE FORTUNATE TO HAVE THIS 7.5 ACRES UNDER CONTRACT WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 160 APARTMENTS. THESE APARTMENTS WILL BE IN FOUR-STORY BUILDINGS SERVED BY ELEVATORS MAKING THESE APARTMENTS ACCESSIBLE TO A WIDE RANGE OF AGES AND FAMILIES. I ALSO NEED TO STRESS THE NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY TYPICALLY REQUIRES 1.75 PARKING SPACES PER APARTMENT AND OUR TEAM WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN A REDUCTION DOWN TO 1.5 PARKING SPACES PER APARTMENT.
MORE OTHER IT'S LINCOLN AVENUE'S PRACTICE TO PROVIDE ROBUST ON-SITE AMENITIES FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THESE APARTMENTS IN ORDER TO CREATE A SENSE OF PLACE AND A SENSE O OF BELONGING. FOR ALL OF LINCOLN AVENUE'S RESIDENTS. IN ADDITION TO THE ZONING MAP CHANGE APPLICATION, OUR TEAM IS ALSO SUBMITTED A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. NORTH CAROLINA STATUTES ALLOW FOR DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS SINCE EVERY SITE IS DIFFERENT AND FROM TIME TO TIME THERE ARE SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS OF THE STANDARDS IN THE DURHAM UDO.
OF COURSE SUCH MODIFICATIONS OF THE UDO SHOULD BE JUSTIFIED BASED ON A DEVELOPMENT PROVIDING STRONG COMMUNITY BENEFITS. FOR PAGE CORNER, PAGE CORNERS T COMMUNITY BENEFIT WILL BE 160 APARTMENTS THAT ARE AFFORDABLE TO FAMILIES EARNING 60% OFLESS AMI ALONG WITH STRONG ON-SITE AMENITIES. WE NEED TO MODIFY THE 20% OPEN SPACE DOWN TO 15% BASED ON-SITE CONSTRAINTS SUCH AS REQUIRED PARKING AND STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES. WHEN YOU START WITH 7.5 ACRES AND TAKE OUT THE AREA FOR THE BUILDINGS, THE PARKING AREAS, THE AMENITIES AND THEN TAKE OUT THE ACREAGE NEEDED FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION AND STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO ALLOCATE 20% OF THE JUST OVER SEVEN ACRE SITE TO OPEN SPACE AND MEET TREE COVERAGE REQUIREMENTS.
ACCORDINGLY THE FOUR KEY POINTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT ARE ONE OPEN SPACE, PAGE CORNERS WILL PROVIDE 15% RATHER THAN THE 20% DUE TO THE SITE CONSTRAINTS I JUST MENTIONED. TWO, IN REGARDS TO TREE COVERAGE, PAGE CORNERS WILL PROVIDE A MINIMUM OF 7% WHICH IS THE SAME AS THE COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER. COUNCIL JUST APPROVED THE PAGE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT AND COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD TIER IT'S ONLY A MILE SOUTH. OUR TEAM RECOGNIZES WE NEED TO PROVIDE AS MANY TREES AS POSSIBLE ALONG STERLING COMMUNICATION PROPERTY.
THREE, INCREASE FENCE HEIGHT FROM FOUR NEAT TO SIX FEET. FOUR, REMOVE UNNECESSARY BUT REQUIRED BUFFER ALONG ATT FRONT TIER PROPERTY LINE TO ALLOW FOR COST EFFECTIVE SINGLE FAIRZ BUILDOUT OF THIS 7-ACRE SITE. PAGE CORNERS WILL BE ONE OF THE STRONG eAFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED IN THE CITY OF DURHAM WITH 160 APARTMENTS AFFORDABLE FOR DURHAM RESIDENTS MAKING UP TO 60% AMI. WE NEED TO PROVIDE AS MUCH TREE COVERAGE AS POSSIBLE AND BUFFERING AS POSSIBLE ALONG THE STERLING ASSOCIATION PROPERTY TO THE WEST.
I WANT TO STESS THAT LINCOLN AVENUE HAS A FINE TRACK RECORD ARE ACROSS OUR NATION. LINCOLN AVENUE COMMUNITIES OWNS OVER 170 PROPERTIES CONTAINING OVER 30,500 DWELLING UNITS. THEY EXPECT TO BE THE LONG-TERM OWNER OF THIS DEVELOPMENT AND WILL PROVIDE SOLID ON-SITE MANAGEMENT TO RESIDENTS IF WE'RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RECEIVE APPROVAL THIS EVENING. FOR ALL THESE REASONS WE RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR APPROVAL AND OUR TEAM WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. >> THANK YOU. WHERE HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN? ALL RIGHT.
I DON'T HAVE AN OTHER SPEAKERS. THIS IS 21, RIGHT? SO AT THIS THE TIME ILL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED AND BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. COLLEAGUES. COUNCIL MEMBER. >> THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. ATTORNEY BYKER. FIRST IS COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE BUFFER ONE MOE TIME AND GIVE ME MORE SPECIFICS ON THAT? YOU SAID IT WAS UNNECESSARY. I'M CURIOUS HOW YOU DEFINE THAT. >> YEAH. THERE IS A FRONT TIER SWITCHING STATION ON CHIN PAGE ROAD. A BRICK BUILDING WITH WITH NO WINDOWS AND I BELIEVE NO EMPLOYEES, NO OCCUPANTS.
THERE'S ALSO A VACANT PARCEL IN-BETWEEN THE SWITCHING STATION AND PAGE CORNER SITE, AND SO THEREFORE ANY DEVELOPMENT REDEVELOPMENT OF THE FRONTIER PROPERTY, THE BUFFERING COULD BE MET BY THE VACANT PROPERTY THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE TWO. THEREFORE, IT'S UNNECESSARY FOR PAGE CORNERS TO GIVE UP PROPERTY ON ITS SIDE TO BUFFER SOMETHING THAT HAS NO OCCUPANTS AND IS JUST A BUILDING WITH BRICK WALLS. >> THERE'S POSSIBILITY THAT EMPTY LOT COULD BE DEVELOPED AT SOME POINT? >> RIGHT. THE UDO CONTEMPLATES THAT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO MEET THE BUFFERING STANDARDS WITHIN THEIR PACEL AND THAT'S JUST SIMPLY -- >> -- SHIFT TO THAT POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IF THAT -- >> OKAY.
ALTHOUGH IF IT DEVELOPED AS RESIDENTIAL IT WOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE A BUFFER. >> RIGHT. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FENCE HEIGHT. >> YEAH. AS YOU SEE ON THIS LAST SLIDE HERE, LINCOLN HAS OVER 170 PROPERTIES. THIS IS THEIR DEVELOPMENT STANDARD FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES. IT'S SIMPLY -- BRYAN? -- A SECURITY MEASURE? >> BRYAN MALONEY, CALIFORNIA. JUST TO ADDRESS THE FENCE HEIGHT COMMENT. SO SINCE THIS IS MAJORITY THREE AND FOUR BEDROOM COMMUNITIES IT'LL BE SERVING LARGER FAMILIES AND OFTEN TIMES IT'S A SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD WHERE ONE PARENT WORKS AND OFF TIMES KIDS GET HOME FROM SCHOOL AND MOM OR DAD ISN'T HOME YET SO RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED THAT THEY FEEL A LOT MORE SECURE WHEN THERE'S A SIX-FOOT FENCE SURROUNDING THE COMMUNITY, SO JUST LIMIT ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY FEL SAFER THAT IF KIDS GET HOME FROM ARE SCHOOL AND THEY'RE NOT THERE, THEY FEEL SAFE AND SECURE.
IT'S NOT GOING BE LIKE AN AUN SIGHTLY CHAIN LINK, ITLL BE ATTRACTIVE FENCE THAT'LL LOOK GOOD AS WELL, SO. >> WHILE YOU'RE UP THERE, COULD YOU COME BACK? I'M ACTUALLY CURIOUS TO KNOW -- I DIDN'T DO ANY BACKGROUND RESEARCH BECAUSE WE HAD A MILLION THINGS ON AGENDA TONIGHT, BUT COULD YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER PROPERTIES YOU OWN OR THAT Y'ALL MANAGE AND WHAT THAT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKE AND IF THERE'S -- I'M CURIOUS ABOUT COMMUNITY INPUT IN MANAGEMENT LIKE SPECIFICALLY LIKE FOLKS THAT ARE LIVING THERE HAVING SAY IN MANAGEMENT AND JUST CURIOUS IF Y'ALL HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AND WHAT THINGS Y'ALL ARE PROUD OF IN YOUR MANAGEMENT SCHEME.
>> YEAH. I WOULD SAY -- WE USE THIRD PARTY PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT FOR THIS SITE. WE'RE PROVIDING FRANKLIN JOHNSON GROUP BASED OUT OF VIRGINIA ONE OF THE LARGEST AFFORDABLE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES IN THE COUNTRY, AND I THINK WE ARE PROUD, I THINK WE DO A GOOD JOB OF HAVING ROBUST ON-SITE SERVICES. WE HAVE A DEDICATED TEAM THAT IS WITHIN LINCOLN AVENUE COMMUNITIES NOT JUST MANAGEMENT COMPANY THAT IS DEDICATED PROVIDING SERVICES FOR THE RESIDENTS. SO THAT'S THEIR FULL-TIME FOCUS. I'M A DEVELOPER, I FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT BUT THOSE PEOPLE SOLELY FOCUS ON RESIDENT SERVICES AND I THINK WE DO A GOOD JOB AT IT.
>> DOES FRANKLIN JOHNSON GROUP DO ANYTHING ELSE IN NORTH CAROLINA? THEY'RE LOCAL TO VIRGINIA? >> THEY MANAGE UNITS IN NORTH CAROLINA. I WOULDN'T KNOW EVERY SINGLE ONE, BUT -- >> TOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS. SORRY, ONE MORE QUESTION. THIS MIGHT BE FOR THE ATTORNEY AGAIN. THERE IS NOT A LOT OF TRANSIT OPTIONS IN THE NEAR VICINITY. CAN YOU TALK ABUT CONVERSATIONS Y'ALL HAD AROUND THAT? >> YEAH. IT'S -- THERE IS THE REGIONAL TRANSIT HUB THERE IN IMPERIAL CENTER WHICH IS ABOUT A MILE AWAY, SO YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE'S NO -- THE CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP WOULD BE OVER AT CHIN PAGE AND MIAMI.
NOTHING IN THE MEDIATE VICINITY THE BUT THERE AGAIN WHAT'S SO ATTRACTIVE ABOUT THIS SITE IS THAT ONE IT'S INFILL BUT IT'S ALSO ONLY A MILE AWAY FROM RTP AND A MILE AWAY FROM IMPERIAL CENTER, WHO LARGEST EMPLOYMENT CENTERS IN DURHAM. AND SO, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT IT, IT'S SO MUCH -- JUST A TREMENDOUS BENEFIT TO HAVE THIS TYPE OF HOUSING WITH A VERY, VERY SHORT COMMUTE DISTANCE TO MAJOR EMPLOYMENT CENTERS. THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN ZEBULON AND COMPUTE TO RTP.
SO IT'S, IT'S NO DOUBT IT'S, NOT -- BUS STOP ON EVERY CORNER IS NOT FEASIBLE BUT HOPEFULLY IT COULD COME TO THIS LOCATION IN THE NEAR FUTURE. >> TANK YOU. THOSE ARE ACTUALLY ALL MY QUESTIONS. >> CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT, -- I KNOW YOU ALREADY MENTIONED IT IN THE PREVIOUS ITEM BUT CAN YOU REVISIT AND TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT GOING DOWN FROM THE 20% TO THE 7%? >> YEAH. IT'S, -- IT GOES BACK TO THAT PREVIOUS SLIDE, COUNCIL MEMBER BAKER, IF I CAN MAKE THIS WORK.
YEAH, THERE. THE CHALLENGE IS, YOU'VE GOT THESE NONNEGOTIABLES RMENT THE STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURE IS A LARGE 15% OF THE SITE, YOU PROBABLY LOSE -- I SHOULDN'T SAY LOSE, YOU HAVE TO DEVOTE 15% TO STORMWATER CONTROL. THEN 1.5 PARKING SPACE PER UNIT THAT'S MANDATED BY THE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY. WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY REDUCTION ON THE VEHICLE USE AREA LANDSCAPING. PARKING LOT WILL NEED UD O O STANDARDS. ADDITIONALLY, RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION FOR THE MULTIUSE PATHINGS ALONG CHIN PAGE AND PAGE ROAD AND THEN OF COURSE YOU GOT THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE BUILDINGS.
ONCE THAT'S ALL DONE YOU GET DOWN TO ABOUT 15% LEFT OVER FOR OPEN SPACE. I HOPE TAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. >> DOES THE RIGHT-OF-WAY COUNT TOWARD THE TOTAL AREA OF THE SITE? >> WELL, WE START WITH 7 ABOUT 7.5 ACRES. WE HAVE TO DEDICATE ALMOST HALF AN ACRE BETWEEN THE TWO STREETS SO WE LOSE HALF AN ACRE, BALLPARK TORQUE WIDENING CHIN PAGE AND PAGE ROADS. SO, YES, IT'S ACREAGE THAT MR. MALONEY IS PURCHASING FROM THE CURRENT OWNER THAT WE CAN'T BUILD ON.
>> WE COUNT DESIGN IT IN A WAY THAT WOULD KEEP A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE 20%? >> MR. SIVERS HAS DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB. WE TURNED IN SITE PLAN QUITE A FEW WEEKS AGO, ALREADY IN REVIEW. WE GAE THE SITE PLAN TO MANY NEIGHBORING PROPERTY OWNERS BUT WE GOT TO 15% OPEN SPACE AND WE THINK THAT'S PRETTY STRONG. >> OKAY. QUESTION FOR STAFF. IS THIS USING ANY CITY SUBSIDY FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING? >> NO. LIHTC. >> THAT'S PRETTY THE UNCOMMON, RIGHT?
>> I WOULD SAY SO. >> YEAH. >> IN CONJUNCTION WITH REZONINGS, YES. >> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 160 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS AT 60% A AMI THAT'S NOT USING ANY CITY SUBSIDY, I MEAN, THAT IS INCREDIBLY UNIQUE. THAT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING WE SEE VERY OFTEN. SO WHAT A HUGE ASSET FOR SOMETHING THAT WE DEEPLY NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT GIVE ME A LOT OF HEARTBURN ABOUT THIS CASE AND A LOT OF ANXIETY. THINGS I DON'T LIKE TO SEE.
PEOPLE WHO LIVE AT 60% AMI DESERVE SAME AMOUNT OF OPEN SPACE AND TREEINGS AS EVERYBODY ELSE AND THIS IS A VERY AUTO-ORIENTED AREA, AMEAN, JUST NOT A LOT OF OPTIONS WITH REGARD TO TRANSPORTATION, AND 160 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHOUT ANY CITY SUBSIDY IS SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY REMARKABLE AND SOMETHING UNIQUE AND -- WITH THE 4% LIHTC AS WELL -- SOMETHING I THINK WOULD BE HUGELY BENEFICIAL TO OUR RESIDENTS, SO, I PLAN ON VOTING FOR THIS CASE AND I APPRECIATE YOU COMING FORWARD WITH IT.
THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. >> THANK YOU. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR REALLY QUICKLY. HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE TO DO THIS WITH THE UDO AND NOT HAVE REZONINGS SO THAT WE CAN JUST GET IT BUILT SO THE TREE SAVE AND THE OPEN SPACE AND ALL OF THAT, I MEAN WE JUST PASSED A THING THAT'S GOING ADD 7% AND COMPACT DESIGN ALL OVER THE CITY, SO, I UNDERSTAND THE DILEMMA AROUND OPEN SPACE AND TREE SAVE BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THERE ARE OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY THAT ARE ZONED SIMILARLY SO I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF HEARTBURN AROUND IT.
WHAT I'M DELIGHTED IS WE DIDN'T HAVE TO GIVE A SINGLE CITY PENNY TO 4% AND WE HAVE 160 UNITS THAT ARE SEVERAL FOUR AND THREE BEDROOMS AND IT'S GOING TO BE A TRANSIT-RICH AREA, TRANSIT'S GOING TO ACTUALLY COME BECAUSE IT'S NEAR EMPLOYMENT CENTERS SO GET THEIR HOUSING STABILIZED - HAVE A GOOD JOB AND WE'RE MOVING FORWARD IN WHAT WE WANT WHICH IS WHAT ARE WE DELIVERING FOR DURHAM RESIDENTS AND THAT'S WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR UDO IF THERE'S TRADE-OFFS THAT WE'RE NOT SPENDING NOT ASKING APPLICANTS HOW LONG WERE Y'ALL IN THIS PROCESS WITH US?
>> I HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT T THE STAFF, THEY GOT US THROUGH QUICKLY. SIX MONTHS. >> PERFECT. I WANT EVERYTHING LIKE THIS AT SIX MONTHS OR ELESS, THAT'S WHAT I WANT. I WANT THE FOLKS WH ARE DELIVERING THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS: 160 UNITS, I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER APPROVED ANYTHING LIKE THIS SINCE 2018, 160 UNITS WITHOUT A SINGLE CITY CENT FOR 60% AMI ORLESS NEAR MAJOR EMPLOYMENT AND I AM DELIGHTED -- I'M NOT GOING TO -- THIS IS LIKE A UNICORN I'M NOT GOING BE LIKE YOU'RE GIVING ME AN AMAZING COOKIE BUT IT'S NOT EXACTLY THE KIND OF COOKIE I WANT.
THANK YOU FOR THIS -- SORRY -- THANK YOU FOR COMING, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING TIME AND INVEST NMENT DURHAM. I WILL ENTHUSIASTICALLY BE SAYING YES TO THIS AND THERE'S PLENTY OF AFFLUENT COMMUNITIES ON FARRINGTON ROAD THAT HAS YOU KNOW VERY LOW VERY MUCH LOWER TREE COVER STANDARDS THAN WE JUST PASSED A THING UNANIMOUSLY THAT'S DOING THE SAME THING A MILE DOWN THE ROAD. AGAIN, I'M VOTING YES AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONVERSATIONS WITH THE UDO TO MAKE THIS KIND OF THING HAPPEN IN SIX MONTHS OR LESS AND LET IT BE, YEAH, I WILL TRADE -- I'M NOT SAYING FOLKS DON'T DESERVE TREES BUT WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR AND THE 1.5 -- THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING THE NORTH CAROLINA FINANCE HOUSING -- THE 1.5 PARKING SPOT MAYBE WE COULD GET THE OPEN TREE I MEAN THE OPEN SPACE AND TREE COVERAGE IF WE WEREN'T HAVING TO PROVIDE 1.5 PARKING SPACES AND JUST ONE, RIGHT?
I THINK THAT'S THE CONVERSATION WE NEED TO BE HAVING A. WE'RE FIGHTING ABOUT TREES AND OPEN SPACER PEER HERE. BIGGER QUESTION IS WE NEED CONVERSATIONS AT STATE LEVEL TO LOWER THAT PARKING REQUIREMENT. I KNOW THERE'S A BILL IN FRONT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY THAT MIGHT GET RID OF PARKING MINIMUMS ACROSS THE STATE -- YEA -- AND THAT'S ALL VI TO SAY. THANK -- I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU. >> I STILL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT MY COOKIE. I JUST HAD A QUESTION WITH ABOUT STAFF.
WHAT'S THE -- IS THERE O OPACITY REQUIREMENT NEAR THE OTHER SITE? I THINK IT WAS STERLING ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY? -- FOR THE BUFFER THAT'S ON THAT SIDE? >> YEAH, THERE SHOULD BE. I THINK THERE WAS OPEN SPACE THAT ACTS AS THE BUFFER. THERE'S A CUL-DE-SAC THAT TERMINATES AND THEN THERE'S A BUFFER AND OPEN SPACE FOR THAT DEVELOPMENT. >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OPACITY LEVEL WILL BE? >> DEPENDS O ON WHEN IT WAS DEVELOPED. NEED TO DIG INTO THAT FOR YOU. >> DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE BUILDING ENVELOPE WILL BE >> DEFER TO APPLICANT WITH THE SITE PAN THEY'VE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW.
>> THERE WILL BE A 10-FOOT BUFFER APPROXIMATELY ON THE PAGE CORNER SIDE OF THE PROPERTY LINE, BUT THE STERLING COMMUNITY HAS ABOUT 30 FEET, RIGHT TIM? 30-FOOT BUFFER IN THEIR OWNER'S ASSOCIATION PROPERTY. SO TAKE THE TOTAL IT'S ACTUALLY >> AND THOSE WILL BE MATURE TREES NOT JUST THE LITTLE -- >> FOR THE MOST PART, NOT EXCLUSIVELY BUT FOR THE MOST PART. >> THANK YOU. JUST ONE ADDITIONAL QUESTION. IS THERE ANY WAY POSSIBLE TO GET THAT UP FROM SEVEN TO 11 PEPPER S -- 11%.
>> I CAN'T COMMIT TO THAT TONIGHT. WE HAVE OUR SITE PLAN TURNED IN SO IT'S DESIGNED ALONG THOSE STANDARDS. P >> THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK Y'ALL NOR EXCITING PROJECT. -- FOR THIS EXCITING PROJECT. I WANT TO CONNECT THIS WITH THE PAGE DESIGN DISTRICT. I KNOW STAFF WENT AND ACUALLY TRIED TO IDENTIFY HOW MUCH AFFORDABLE HOUSING WAS IN THE WHOLE AREA OF PAGE. I THINK YOU COUNTED UP LESS THAN 10 UNITS, RIGHT, SO NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS AREA.
160 UNITS FOR 30 YEARS AT 60% AMI OR BELOW, THAT'S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THIS COMMUNITY. WEPT TO HAVE AFFORDABLE -- WE WANT TO HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ALL PARTS OF COMMUNITY. PART OF OUR GRAT CHALLENGE ON THE City Council IS GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE. I GET IT'S NOT TOTALLY CONNECTED TO YOUR SITE BUT AS YOU SAID YOU'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM THAT TRANSIT OPPORTUNITY AREA. A FAMILY WITH ONE CAR COULD EASILY REACH THE BUS TERMINAL OR TRANSIT SENDER SO THERE'S WAYS WE CAN CONNECT PEOPLE OVERTIME TO THAT POURNT AREA.
WE'RE BUILDING THE CIT, THE FUTURE. I HERE COUNCIL MEMBER BAKER I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT GIVING AWAY OPEN SPACE AND TREES, CRITICAL CONCERN. WE DID HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DISTRICT. I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME SMALL SCALE COMMERCIAL THERE, BUT ON BALANCE, THIS IS AMAZING PROJECT AND THIS IS AMAZING PROJECT AS COLLEAGUES HAVE SAI, THERE'S NO AFORDABLE, NO CITY SUBSIDY HERE. 160 AFFORDABLE HOUSING SO THIS IS GREAT STUFF AND I'LL GLADLY SUPPORT THIS PROJECT. THANK YOU. >> THANKS, COLLEAGUES.
FOR THE 4% LIHTC TAX CREDIT IS HARD TO GET RELATIVE TO THE 9% ONES. HAVE YOU ALREADY RECEIVED? >> THIS WILL BE OUR FIRST PROJECT IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT OUTIZES THE 4% CREDIT FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT, BUT, COMPARED TO THE 9, THE 9% IS A LOT MORE XET COMPETITIVE. >> GO AHEAD. >> YOU'RE ASKING IF WE USED 9% CREDITS BEFORE? >> NO, YOU'RE RIGHT. SOMETIMES WE GET A LITTLE BIT OF ANXIETY ABOUT PRODUCTS COMPETING AT THE 9% LEVEL. HAVE YOU ALREADY BEEN AWARDED THE 4 PER P SENT?
>> OUR APPLICATION NEEDS THE REZONE TO BE SUBMITTED SO ONE OF THE LAST PIECES THEN WE'LL BE SUBMITTING IT IN MAY. >> IF YOU DON'T GET IT WHAT HAPPENS TO THIS PROJECT? >> IT DIES. >> SO THE 4% IS COMPETITIVE. >> RIGHT. BUT I'VE SEEN THEM -- THEY'VE BEEN -- THEY'RE NOT AS XELT TI BUT I'VE SEEN CASES WHERE THEY WEREN'T -- BUT YOU GUYS HAVE ALL Is DOTTED AND Ts CROSSED. NOT GOING LOSE SLEEP OVER THERE. I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT.
I THINK THIS IS A, A -- TO Javiera Caballero'S POINT, SOMETHING WE OUGHT TO LOOK FOR IN THE FUTURE AND FACILITATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THE VERY ANIMATING PRINCIPLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS WAS TO PUT US IN POSITION TO KIND OF BRING THEM FORWARD A LITTLE QUICKER AND TAILORED TO OUR VALUES, S EXCITING PRJECT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING IT. THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES. EXCUSE ME. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. LOOK FORWARD TO DOING MORE WORK WITH YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT.
NO MORE COMMENTS, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING 'PAGE CORNERS' INTO THE CITY OF DURHAM EFFECTIVE JUNE 30, 2025. >> MOVED AS READ. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. I'LL ALSO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BY TAKING PROPERTY OUT OF RESIDENTIAL RURAL AND COMMERCIAL CENTER, COUNTY JURISDICTION AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME AS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT RESIDENTIAL 22.456 WITH A TEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, CITY JURISDICTION; AND TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A STATUTORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH AN ASSOCIATED UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT WITH PAGE ROAD APARTMENTS, LP; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE BOTH THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND THE UTILITY EXTENSION AGREEMENT.
>> SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. LASTLY, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY N.C.G.S. SEC. 160D-605. >> SO MOVED. >> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk,ING PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. GREAT WORK. ALL RIHT. AND LASTLY, 22. ZONING MAP CHANGE - 1202 ELLIS ROAD.
DO YOU HAVE A? >> FOLLOW-UP QUESTION FOR STAFF BASED ON MAYOR PRO TEM'S QUESTION. IS THERE ANY RESOURCE THAT I SHOULD BE LOOKING AT TRACKING THESE 4%-TYPE REQUESTS? LIKE THERE'S NOTHING THAT PAIRS YOU KNOW TRACKING OUR DEVELOPMENT CASES WITH THAT TYPE OF COMMITMENT. >> I THINK -- STAFF IS INTERNALLY WORKING ON UPDATING OUR DATABASE WITH ALL THAT INFORMATION AT LEAST THROUGH PROSED AND APPROVED REZONINGS SO WE'RE BUILDING THAT DATABASE AND CAPTURING THAT AT LEAST INTERNALLY WE DON'T CLASSIFY LIHTC OR NOT. >> IT WILL CLASSIFY?
>> IT WILL NOT. IT DOESN'T. >> IT WILL NOT. IS THERE A WAY TO FIND THE LIHTC? >> DEEP DIVING. >> OKAY. SO JUST DEFER TO STAFF ON THAT THEN. >> I WILL SAY THAT SOMETIMES WE ARE NOT AWARE THAT AT THE REZONING STAGE THAT A PROJECT IS GOING TO SEEK LIHTC. SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS ORGANICALLY WHEN FOLKS ARE DEVELOPING BY-RIGHT. THERE'S A LOT OF TRACK AND FOR INSTANCE WHEN SOMEONE SUBMITS A SITE PLAN THEY DON'T TELL US WHETHER THEY'RE FINANCING OR RECEIVING CREDITS.
IT'S A LITTLE HARDER. IT'S NOT INORMATION THAT NATURALLY COMES TO US. >> I THINK JUST SPECIFICALLY WHERE IT'S IT IS SHARED THAT THEY ARE GOING AFTER 4%. >> WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT. IF IT'S SHARED WITH US, WE CAN MAKE NOTE O OF THAT. >> JUST WHEN THEY TELL US. >> YEAH. >> ALL RIGHT. LASTLY, ITEM 23. SORRY, NUMBER 22: 22. ZONING MAP CHANGE - 1202 ELLIS ROAD. IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK LIKE AN AUCTION NEAR, PERFECTLY FINE. >> MAYOR WILLIAMS, MAYOR PRO TEM MIDDLETON, AND HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD EVENING, I AM PEYTON BURGESS WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT.
A REQUEST FOR A ZONING MAP CHANGE HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM MARTIN COULTER, OF THOMAS AND HUTTON, FOR TWO PARCELS OF LAND TOTALING 1.24 ACRES AND LOCATED AT 1202 AND 1206 ELLIS ROAD. THE CURRENT ZONING IS RESIDENTIAL RURAL. THE APPLICANT PROPOSES TO CHANGE THIS DESIGNATION TO RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN-MULTIFAMILY WITH A TEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO REZONE THE PROPERTIES TO ALLOW UP TO 20 SINGLE-FAMILY AND/OR DUPLEX UNITS. THE PROPERTIES ARE CURRENTLY DESIGNATED MIXED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE PLACE TYPE MAP. THE PROPOSED ZONING IS GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH THE DESIGNATED PLACE TYPE.
THANK YOU, STAFF AND THE APPLICANT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE STAFF REPORT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME I'LL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. I HAVE MR. JEWEL. SO YOU'RE JUST SPEAKING? >> YES. I'LL PROBABLY NEED ABOUT SIX MINUTES. >> ALL RIGHT. [CROSS TALK]. >> GOOD EVENING O, MAYOR AND FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M DANIEL JEWELL, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND PRINCIPLE WITH THOMAS & HUTTON WE'RE PLANNING AND ENGINEER AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM ON MERIDIAN PARKWAY AND I LIVE AT 1025 GLORIA AVENUE BOTH IN DURHAM.
WE'RE THE APPLICANTS FOR THIS WHAT I THINK VERY MODEST PROPOSAL. CURRENT RR RESIDENTIAL ZNING ON THIS PROPERTY WOULD ONLY ALLOW ONE HOUSE ON THE ONE AND A QUARTER ACRES THAT THESE TWO PARCELS COMPRISE. THIS IS IN A LOCATION WHERE THE PLACE-TYPE MAP CALLED FAR MUCH HIGHER RESIDENTIAL DENSITY, MIXED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. WE AGREE WITH BOTH THE STAFF AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THIS SITE IS AN APPROPRIATE LOCATION FOR A SMALL INFILL RESIDENTIAL PROJECT. THE LOCATION IS ONLY ABOUT A QUARTER MILE FROM THE AMERICAN TOBACCO TRAIL AND RELATIVELY CLOSE TO DURHAM TECH AND THE BRIGGS AVENUE COMMERCE PARK.
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE PRIMARILY MADE UP OF TOWNHOMES AND OLDER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IF YOU LOOK AT A MAP. THE ADDITION OF SINGLE AND TWO FAMILY HOMES IN THIS LOCATION ON SMALL LOTS WILL PROVIDE MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING AREA AND FURTHER BOLSTER WITH COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GOAL OF CREATING A MIXED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IN THIS AREA. YOU CAN SEE FROM THE LIST OF TEXT COMMITMENTS THAT WE HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE STAFF REQUESTS FOR ITEMS INCLUDING LEFT TURN LANES, DRIVEWAY LOCATION CANS, CONSTRUCTION OF SHARED BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES ON ELLIS AND RIDDLE ROADS, AND WE'VE ALSO AGREED TO REQUEST W HAD AT TH PLANNING COMMISSION TO USE NATIVE PLANT MATERIALS FOR STREET TREES, ETC.
IN ADDITION AS A FOLLOW-UP, ON REFLECTION OF SOME WRITTEN COMMENTS FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSIONS AND SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATIONS WE HAD WE WOULD LIKE TO DEMONSTRATE TO COMMIT TO PROVIDE A MIX OF MISSING MIDDLE TYPES. SO EVEN THOUGH OUR APPLICATION SAYS SINGLE FAMILY AND/OR DUPLEX-TYPE UNITS, WE WOULD LIKE TO STRENGTHEN THE CURRENT TEXT COMMITMENT BY SAYING THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTAIN SINGLE FAMILY AND/OR DUPLEX UNITS BY ADDING ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE THAT SAYS AT LEAST 50% OF THE UNITS SHALL BE IN THE FORM OF ATTACHED HOUSES OR DUPLEXES.
I DID PROVIDE THIS LANGUAGE TO MS. BURGESS IN ADVANCE SO WE CAN CRAFT THAT. SO IN CONCLUSION IN THE SPIRIT O OF KEEPING PRESENTATION SHORT, WE HOPE YU CAN AGREE THAT THIS ZONING REQUEST WILL PROVIDE MUCH-NEEDED MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING TO THIS PART OF DURHAM AT A VERY MODEST SCALE THAT FITS INTO THE EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC AND WILL FOLLOW THE PLANNING COMMISSIONS UNANIMOUS APPROVAL AND MOVE TO GRANT OUR ZONING REQUEST. THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. >> THANK YOU.
I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS SO THEREFORE I WILL DECLARE THE PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED AND BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? YES, MA'AM. COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. >> THANK YOU. JUST FOR THE APPLICANT. I NOTICE YOU INCLUDED THE MAXIMUM OF 20 UNITS; WAS THERE A MINIMUM? >> I THINK PUTTING THE 20 UNITS ON THERE WAS SIMPLY THEORETICALLY THIS MANY COULD BE BUILT BUT FROM A PLANNING STANDPOINT IF WE'RE DOING DUPLEXES AND SOME SINGLE FAMILY, REALLY, EVEN A REALLY GOOD PLANNER AND DESIGNER IS GOING TO BE HARD PRESSED TO GET MORE THAN 10 OR 11 UNITS ON THIS SITE.
SO REALISTICALLY THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE. EVEN THE BEST DENSITY FOR TOWN HOUSES WHICH WE'RE NOT PROPOSING MAYBE TEN UNITS TO THE ACRE. WE THINK ROUGHLY TEN UNITS. HOPE THAT HELPS. >> THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. NO OTHER COMMENTS. GO AHEAD. >> THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF USING THE MIXED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD TO INCREASE DENSITY IN THAT PARCEL. I DID DRIVE THE SITE TODAY, AND AS YOU SAID THEE'S SOME INDUSTRIAL USE ACROSS RAILROAD BUT IT'S MOSTLY LIKE OLDER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THAT AREA SO I DO APPRECIATE THE ADDITIONAL TEXT COMMITMENT COMMITTING TO AT LEAST SOME AS YOU SAID DUPLEXES OR ATTACHED -- THE TERM WAS -- BUT THAT IT WOULD BE YOU'RE GOING TO ADD TO VARIETY OF HOUSING CHOICES THERE.
I TRIED TO USE ORDINANCE TERMS. DETACHED HOUSES OR DUPLEXES ARE IN THE ORDINANCE. >> MEETS GOAL OF HAVING VARIETY IN THAT. I APPRECIATE THAT CHANGE AND I'LL BE SUPPORTING THIS. >> THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NO OTHER COMMENTS, THEN I WILL -- SORRY -- I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BY TAKING PROPERTY OUT OF RESIDENTIAL RURAL AND ESTABLISHING THE SAME AS RESIDENTIAL SUBURBAN-MULTIFAMILY WITH A TEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN. >> MOVED AS READ. >> SECOND. >> MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED.
Madam Clerk, PEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THNK YOU SO MUCH. AND LASTLY, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT A CONSISTENCY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED BY N.C.G.S. SEC. 160D-605. >> MOVED. >> SECOND. >> BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED. Madam Clerk, PLEASE OPEN THE VOTE. PLEASE CLOSE THE VOTE. >> MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. >> THANK YOU. COLLEAGUES, I BELIEVE THAT SATISFIES - YES, MA'AM. >> JUST ONE OTHER MATTER. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO JUST STATE AND BE VERY TRANSPARENT.
I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE MAYOR AT WORK SESSION THE CONVERSATION CAME UP ABOUT HOW MANY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND EVERYTHING. I KNOW THERE ARE 29 BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. DID MAKE SURE THE MAYOR KNEW I SERVE ON ONE THAT'S I'M A VOTING MEMBER ON AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I ACTUALLY TOOK ON ADDITIONAL CONTRACT WORK AND I AM NOT AVAILABLE AS FREQUENTLY AS I HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST, AND SO I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE FOLKS UNDERSTAND, LIKE, THE FLEXIBILITY THAT I HAVE IS NOT OPEN ALL THE TIME AND SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS THAN FEWER, SERVING AS ALTERNATE COMMISSIONINGS AND I TRY TO GET TO AS MANY MEETINGS AS I CAN, I'M NOT ONE FOR JUST SHOWING UP SOME OF THE TIME, I USUALLY TRY TO BE THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND, I THINK FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR THE CITIZENS ADVISORY ARE AND THE H ZACK AND WORKERS' RIGHT, THOSE ARE THREE I COULD NOT MAKE WORK.
I AM A MOTHER OF THREE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I PRIORITIZE THE NEEDS O OF MY CHILDREN AS WELL, AND EVEN MEETINGS EVERY DAY OR EACH MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY JUST DOESN'T WORK FOR ME, SO. I DID WANT TO JUST STATE THAT. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU OU. YES. >> I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW-UP. I KNOW YOU HEARD ME EARLIER BUT I'M GONG THE FOLLOW-UP THAT QUESTION TO GET AN UPDATE ON THE INTERACTIVE MAP FOR THE FAYETTEVILLE STREET CORRIDOR. THAT'S ALL.
THANKS. >> THANK YOU. YES. >> DO YOU NEED AN EXCUSED ABSENCE FOR THURSDAY, MAYOR? >> I THOUGHT I REQUESTED IT? >> WE DID? >> CHELSEA, DID I REQUEST IT? BECAUSE CHELSEA READS EVERYTHING AND SHE DOESN'T MISS ANYTHING? DID I? BECAUSE IT WAS JUST A THURSDAY. I YIELDED TO MIDDLETON. ALL RIGHT. I'M GOOD. ALL RIGHT, GUYS LET'S GO HOME. THANK YOU. WE'RE ADJOURNED AT 10:43. THANK YOU.