welcome to you all who have joined us in person on this rainy day and welcome to those who are joining us remotely as well Madam clerk would you please call the road thank you madam mayor mayor O'Neal I am here mayor Pro tem Middleton I'm here councilmember Caballero here councilmember Freeman she's requesting an excused absence today councilmember Halsey Hyman is also requesting an excused absence councilmember Johnson here councilmember Williams thank you so much uh colleagues for your consideration I do have three motions for on excused absences I know you've probably received the emails from uh Dr Hosley Hyman and councilwoman Freeman I think councilwoman Friedman is in Charlotte and is asked to be on the panel for tomorrow at a conference and Dr Hosley Hyman had a work obligation
today at nccu and I am also requesting an excuse absence on Monday September the 18th I will be out of town and so MIA Pro tem I hope you will be able to preside at that meeting and I would like to entertain that motion if we could do them all three at one time so moved second thank you and um that has been moved by councilwoman Johnson and seconded by Council woman uh I'm sorry Caballero all those in favor if you stop by saying aye aye all those supposed to have the same right being hearing none and councilman Williams is now with us so we are ready to uh take announcements by Council some look to my right Robert councilman um Javier yeah uh thank you madam mayor good afternoon everyone good to see folks um
I don't know what's up with my mic I just heard it doing some feedback um I um the subcommittee on the plastic bag ordinance met I think councilmember what Williams like two weeks ago maybe we met and there is consensus on the subcommittee to bring that item forward so our request is if we could bring it up for discussion at our next August work session and the don't waste Durham folks and the Duke Law folks would like to present again to council if folks are amenable and then the goal would be to take up the ordinance later in the fall for an actual vote and so I what I'm looking for today is consensus around are folks comfortable with them coming back at our subsequent work session I unfortunately don't have the date in front of me um and then our folks comfortable with us as a council voting on the matter I think sometime in September or October
any objections to that of course okay Gloria thank you madam mayor thank you councilman caviar and to our colleagues who are doing great work on that subcommittee I just have a question is is it their intention to represent what they've already presented to us or is anything substantive difference or just answer questions from us thank you I think there's two parts they unfortunately got their original presentation was cut short and so I think that was one of the reasons we we ended up with that subcommittee was to delve deeper into the issue and then there is some expansion around the actual ordinance that they want to be able to present so there's some changes to it as well thank you so much thank you madam no objections anybody else thumbs up everybody you have your consensus thank you and then um I have one other announcement I'm so sorry thank you um I also am requesting a conversation it's been raised with residents a few times I think several of us have probably gotten these emails um around if if we are going to do an infrastructure Bond or not um and so I do feel like we probably at
least need to close the loop on that conversation whether whether it's yay or nay and so my other request as a as a council member is that we take up that conversation this is also just for for staff purposes because I think we might have to have a guided conversation on what our options are but I do at least want to we started it during budget season and and it didn't necessarily align with what we were doing then so my second request is to and I can come back with a date or happy to follow up with you individually but didn't see the point in moving that conversation forward if there isn't at least consensus on Council to have that conversation I agree it's time but what does everybody else think thumbs up on that all right we're rolling along thank you madam mayor those were my nonsense and requests thanks to colleagues for indulging me and look forward to the rest of our work session all right thank you so much we're a pro team you have anything thank you all right look into my love colleagues you all have anything okay look I I do have an announcement
and this comes in the form of a letter that came to me at 12 56. from our one of our Deputy city managers both Ferguson and I'm gonna I'm gonna read this letter it's kind of it's it's an email but I do think this is a great announcement good afternoon Madam mayor I'm writing more my in both my professional personal capacity and my professional one hoping that you will be willing to invite the coach and players of the Southern Durham Little League All-Star team to receive recognition at a future council meeting for winning the NC State Championship this summer [Applause] my son was not on the team we played during the regular season with many of the players and coaches who want to went on to win the state tournament and compete in the National Little League World Series I'm so proud of this team and organization not simply for their competitive success
but because the coaches and leaders model the principles of mentorship and serving as role models for young boys and girls across Durham they emphasize character leadership and teamwork as the foundation for success and it is so clear it is clear that this model works so well for them importantly the team was coached by one of our police officers Dante Pharrell who balances countless hours of commitment to these young men against his professional services to our city as a police sergeant this is the first time that a team from South Durham little league has won the state championship in this age group and it is a great accomplishment for the Bull City please let me know if you will be willing to have them on Monday September 18th and I will work with the league and your staff to prepare a proclamation
recognizing them for their accomplishments thank you for your consideration and there is a nice post on the Durham Police Department website that shows parts of the team and our police sergeant and we thank you uh Deputy city manager Ferguson for allowing us to do that and I know we can get thumbs up on recognizing them on the 18th without a doubt thank you so much everybody Amanda mayor point of clarification yes ma'am you won't be here on the 18th and I know when I was a kid it was a big deal to meet the mayor so do you still want to go forward with that or should we look at another date I have reached out to I think one of the um coaches prior to them going down to Florida this weekend hadn't heard back from them by phone but I'm willing to do whatever I can go and meet them personally somewhere else I definitely want it to be their time frame rather than mine so I thank you for remembering that but yeah I would like to be here
but if I can't I'll meet them somewhere else so thank you so much all right everybody since we have no further announcements we will turn to our prior to items uh by our city manager our City attorney and City Clerk good afternoon Madam mayor Mr Mayor Pro tem members of the Durham city council I have a couple of priority items for you this uh on today the very first item is a happy announcement and and some of you have seen it uh already uh posted in in different places but I am pleased to welcome and announce the permanent appointment of our director of budget Management Services Department Christina Reardon Christina is here with us today uh Christina you will recognize as the assistant director that took over the budget and Management Services Department leading that team during a
very tragic time for for our organization and for the community during during last budget season she has led that department and that um that body of work that we do in city government not just putting the budget together but the Innovation components and the process Improvement areas that come out of that department one of the one of the most um leading some of the most Innovative work that we do in city government so I am very pleased as a Durham city manager to uh introduce her formerly today and ask her if she just wants to say anything or have any words she'd like to to say to you all in to the community thank you city manager I just feel really honored to have um been selected for this I'm really excited about the job I am a long time
Durham resident and so I feel really honored to be able to serve the city that I really love and live in and work in every day so I'm looking forward to working with you all on this next budget season as we go forward thank you and and my last item is agenda item number 27 which is the Durham comprehensive plan 2023 the Durham County Board of Commissioners and the Durham city council will be conducting this public hearing for our agenda item number 27 on Thursday August 31st 2023 at 7 pm in city council chambers that is all I have this afternoon thank you city manager and thank you Miss Riordan we are just so honored at your work so far in that very hard space and um you did a fantastic job and so we're glad to know that you will be leading that effort from here on out so thank
you for all that you've done colleagues you've heard our managers priority item I am ready to entertain a motion for the for its approval some councilman I think I heard it it's been um moved by councilman Williams seconded by councilwoman Caballero all those in favor of you with Simon saying aye aye all those supposed to have the same right hearing none we now turn to City Attorney Kim rayberg and we're glad to see her back in her seat today and hope you had a wonderful I think you were away at a conference or something right I was Madam mayor we had the municipal attorneys meeting down in Wilmington and we had a great time um six of the 10 attorneys in the office were present so that was exciting Durham had great Presence at that conference and even participated in a presentation so it was good to be there and then I went to see pink in Washington DC
so it was a very fun weekend and it's good to be back with you all and the city attorney's office has no priority items today thank you so much eternity we now turn to our city clerk to see if she has any priority items for us this afternoon thank you madam mayor the city clerk's office does not have any priority items today all righty well we will now move to the reading of our entire general agenda starting with the administrative consent items and then we will begin with item number one the approval of city council minutes item two is a participatory budgeting steering committee appointments number three the Durham historic preservation commission mayoral appointment item four the Durham City County Environmental Affairs board appointment five citizens advisory committee appointment item six the mayor's Council for women
appointment item seven is the Durham bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission appointment item eight boards committees commissions and task force fiscal year 2022 2023 annual attendance reports return to our department items item nine is a contract agreement with El Centro Hispano to provide salary and operating support number 10. S Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration airport Improvement program Grant offer
3-37-0056-062-2023 Grant 62. S Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration airport Improvement program Grant offered 3-37-0056063-2023 Grant 63. item 14 is the interlocal agreement with Durham County for joint funding of the low-income homeowners relief program ilihrp I do want to give our manager an opportunity to just for Paul's to talk about that particular program counter management uh thank you thank you madam manamir for the opportunity to take a pause to announce um for the this is actually the third season of this but to give it a little bit more amplification that the Durham
city government and the Durham County government in our adopted budgets include more than a million a million dollars including Administration pretty close to uh probably a million and a half dollars to provide Grant support to eligible long-term residents to assist with their property tax bills one of the changes in this interlocal that is in front of you is that the application period has been opened earlier than in previous Cycles so that application period opened on August the 1st it is linked at the Durham County DSS site but it can just be Googled as well and and you could find it that way but we encourage all eligible residents to take advantage of that of that program any any assistance
that we can provide to our residents that are long-term that that may have a lower a moderate income in order to maintain stability stability in their housing we're happy to amplify and make these resources available so so thank you for that brief opportunity mayor thank you so much for um the good work on that and we look forward to helping our seniors in that regard I now turn to item sixth flower item 15 is a Construction contract with eagle solar and light LLC for design and installation of photovoltiac electrical generation systems at Water Management Mist Lake facility item 16 is the condemnation action to obtain two easements at 4000 Fayetteville Street and that item will be pulled so we have a speaker for that item item 17 it was a Construction Services
contract with Riggs Harrow builders Inc for the Edison Johnson Recreation Center renovation project item 18 the athletic booking agent contract item 19 amendment number two to Professional Services contract with Raymond Kemp Associates for Woodcroft Parkway extension tip number u-5823 item 20 amendment number four for Falcon engineering contract number 16451 for the construction material test testing and special inspections of the Miss late facility expansion item 21 the interlocal agreement for the Western intake partnership real estate Madam mayor I don't want to pull item 21 but in my read through I noticed that the authorization language said to authorize the mayor to execute the interlocal agreement I think staff meant city manager let me point that out thank you madam thank you
item 22 is amendment number one to the Professional Services contract with Hazen and Sawyer PC for the Williams Water Treatment Plant plant Basin improvements project item 23 it's Professional Services contract with Ralph Tellis financial consultants Inc for the Western intake partnership governance amendment number one item 24 is proposed updates to connection live Station review and flow monitoring fees for our presentations item 25 is the Durham comprehensive plan 2023 and we will receive a presentation on that issue on that matter item 26 is the unified development ordinance text Amendment simplifying codes for affordable development item 27 is the Durham comprehensive plan 2023 and you've already heard from our
city manager that that public hearing will be conducted here in city council chambers on Thursday August the 31st 2023 at 7 00 PM with both the Board of Commissioners and your city council item 28 our citizens matters we did have one person Mr Jesse Williams who had signed up but I believe it's my understanding that he's no longer going to speak but we have a number of people here in the audience just as a point of clarification the scad public hearing will actually be on our at our next city council meeting what date is that at 7 pm for the public hearing however as a citizen if you are here this afternoon to speak up on that issue you will be called within the context of the citizens matters which we're taking up uh like right now I only have one pulled
item and that was item number 16. correct that's correct all right thank you so we will now move to our citizen items I do believe we have a number of people speaking on issues this afternoon the first person Miss Bowie if you will come and address your matter and say your name within three minutes that'll be followed by Mr Chavis who has a request to speak on scad as well as a citizen matter so he will be given time appropriate to address his two concerns that will be followed by Mr Robert Chapman who's here to speak on scad as well as there are a number of folks who have signed up as well boots on the ground I believe is the organization they are representing and I believe we have once other speaker Ms Wagstaff who signed up for uh to speak as a citizen on a public comment on the
scad but we will actually do it as a citizen matter good afternoon ma'am good afternoon mayor and um male Pro tem and other other accounts up a little louder the councilman hello this evening this afternoon thank you for allowing me to speak I have a concern and I'm sure that it will be your concern um I've been here almost 70 years now and um WD Hill is my concern I thank you for putting so much effort into making that uh that Recreation Center what it should be but it's not being utilized properly because of the surrounding um uh what's happening in the on the Federal Street Corridor and the community I went yesterday and um I was appalled at the um the drugs the prostitution
D hill we have children going to Camp there and this is not a good place for that environment for our children children to walk into it into that environment and their parents leaving them there daily and when they come out they're not able to use the facility playing uh uh tennis soccer because of the drugs and the prostitution and the homelessness in that that that is trying to take over that area so I do not come with a complaint I come with the solution um it will be great if we would just block if the city would just block off that area I know they moved from from from area to area but our children are
our first priority and when the parents have to drop their children off and worry about what their children are are being introduced to I saw about a 10 year old running um running drugs from one car to the other I uh yesterday and the um the drug dealers they parked their cars in that lore uh in that lower parking lot and it is not feasible to have that at our city park I um we don't see it at Forest Hill we don't see it at uh wall town we don't see it at Campus Hills so I think it should be a priority to um to address the issue so our parents and our children will be safe it's not a safe environment for our children so um I don't know how much it will cost to block off that uh the parking lot so
they cannot bring the trash in their dealings at uh at our city park and um and I thank you I will not um thank you so much thank you so much speaking with us this afternoon Mr Chavis you have two cars one for Mr James for a citizen matter and one car for scat so I asked that you would take three minutes to be some each of your subjects and if you just state your name her name is James Chavis I'm I understand mail giving me twice to do it all at one time and I appreciate that offer uh the first one is City matter is dealing with the lead in the park I'm setting up a meeting again with the staff but I want you all to come too because y'all need to hear from the
citizens of Durham how this is affecting our community I'm a long time resident so I know but the new kids coming up just like she just talked about they don't know our school's not educating uh some of our parents are not educating them and I'm talking about in the low wealth area and they don't know what they're going to get into so I wish you would come out I've set it up for August the 28th six six o'clock to eight at Holton and I'm looking for seeing some of y'all because this is very important because when our kids in our neighborhood don't have nowhere to play and they don't have nowhere else to go they're gonna do exactly like she said when she saw that 10 year old child out there selling drugs they gonna do the same because guess what the swimming pool got closed
and guess what nobody from Park and Recreation went out over in that area and told the community folks in that low wealth area why was the swimming pool closed and some other alternative ways for them to go to so this is what we're dealing with in our area and we need y'all and we need you quick my next subject is that scared and it says 26. I'm asking you to postpone it until the planning can come out and explain 26 to the citizens of Durham what is the changes and why it's going to affect or not affect us we're just getting this today about Nisha this coming up here and how quick notice is that that's not quick enough and then you're talking about coming and bringing it back up here again that you all are moving too fast without
the planning department coming and explaining to the citizens because some of the citizens may like the changes if they really know and can understand what's going on but when they can't get the right information they may go against they're against it and you all can help us get the right information to say yes or no so what did you have to hide from so please put our planning department to work and get them out here and talking to the peoples in the community to truly explain this scared matter like it should be thank you thank you sir for your comments this afternoon we're here now from Mr Robert Chapman and it then will be followed by men and women boots on the ground and they will introduce themselves individually as they come Mr Chapman you have three minutes
thank you very much Madam mayor um I want to thank the city council for considering the simplifying codes for affordable development amendments which were introduced last April about 18 months ago over 100 public meetings have been held on July 31st of this year the staff released a detailed analysis of every single item that followed a group of meetings that I attended and other members of the scad task force attended along with four opponents of scad this was suggested by the mayor and I want to thank you very much for doing that as a result of those discussions which were very positive and constructive six Amendments have been made to the proposal and those are listed in the planning Department's analysis we are very very gratified
that the staff out of the 131 changes recommended 120 122 of those outright or recommended them with suggested evaluation of Effectiveness and impacts as part of the Udo rewrite so that's coming up and people will be able to look at these changes and decide if they're worth continuing there were five minor changes that the staff wanted to make three of those were the same one which was the size of accessory dwelling units and I think the task force was very amenable to meeting staff on these points one was about parking requirements and then there were two items that were found to be redundant to existing provisions of the code so again thank you very much for suggesting that we have meetings to discuss compromise and thank the staff
J Henderson Towers 807 South Duke Street uh I'm here as always as an imposer a poser to this scad which some of us call scam um Jim Anthony Aaron lubach and you heard from Mr Robert Bob Chapman along
with Steve Tova in a collected Consortium of uh Tiffany Elder and others real estate agents and Developers sit down and actively in concert allegedly shape the format for scares for scared I have some issues with that several red red flags popped up initially the first red flag was that scanned agents told the citizens of Durham that habitat for America was a co-sponsor of scad we found that out to be alive then there was a ray of churches that they told us had also sat down with members of scad and was in partnership with their co-sponsorship we found that out to be alive those are just the beginning of the red
flags then we found out that Aaron lubach wrote on February the 20th 2023 five months today in an email he said and I quote I know the votes are on Council let me quote that again I know that I got to vote so we got the votes already on City Council hmm it's just a matter of us getting before them I have questions with that we have heard that one council member had been accused enough on the investigation for so-called said now with somebody uh to format her campaign I have questions about that this is under investigation now I understand I want to know when the planning director
4 of the Udo how can you uh get an application for scad and you never had no pre-application conference look it out thank you so much we appreciate your time this afternoon we now turn to I believe our only internet speaker that has signed up that's Miss Jackie Wagstaff Miss Wagstaff if you could hear me you have three minutes foreign
all right and we also have I think a good afternoon Miss wax if I just want to acknowledge that we are seeing Donna stanback hand raised his will if you would if you would like to speak during this session please raise your hand so that we can uh make sure that we get to you this afternoon good afternoon Miss Wagstaff we can hear you and you have three minutes okay good afternoon um Mr Rafi kind of touched on a lot of what I have concerns about especially one of my biggest concerns is when you have one of the um I wouldn't call it awesome but one of the people involved in this whole scad uh conversation that brought this to the Forefront said that he knows he has four votes on that Council now they are probably four individuals on the council that will deny that they've been a part of this conversation but we in the community believe that this conversation took place long before it was brought to
the public now the the issue that I have right now is that the black community which is representative of the Durham community on the path of black people have now asked and request that this diocese these people on this diocese consider delaying this conversation and giving them time and other people in the community an opportunity to get more information understand and make a decision an informed decision and I do know that at least two people on this diocese that were interviewed by the committee and will ask that same question they declined to confirm that they would support that so it leads me to believe that they would they're not going to support it today or Monday to delay this Scag conversation but there are so many problems with this scad and so many problems with the relationship of different members of
this diocese you know you have a board member whose husband's name is on documents that have originally started out this conversation where they claim meetings were being held with convene with churches and other people so there are a lot of problems here and there are a lot of concerns and there are a lot of Investigations that need to take place to investigate the relationship between the members of this diocese and the people that have originated this scad conversation that's the investigation that needs to take place not the investigation of a board a council member that came on the board naive and now all of a sudden her whole life has been turned upside down because of that the investigation should take place on how this CAD developed who these individuals Jim Anthony started this conversation off with and that's where I feel like the crime has been committed and for an individual with this cat to
say that he knows he has four votes he knows he has four votes and that is problematic for the citizens of Durham thank you thank you I believe we have Miss stanback has her hand raised followed by Katie Ross uh you you both have three minutes a piece beginning with Miss stand back let me stand back if you were on mute we should be able to hear you good afternoon I'm Donna stainback Durham resident for 70 years now I'm an opponent to the house bill 562 sponsored by Zach Hawkins it supersedes municipality and County control we need to control at the local level next topic I'm also an opponent for scad I started evaluating it when it was out in the community and went to meetings at Club Boulevard it did mention that it
had the support uh Humanity um and it put a lot of emphasis on that it gives too much control to the developers and the justification justificate and given is not in the best interest of affordable housing and the surrounding communities it is not environmentally friendly I am third I support the comp plan Urban growth boundary as it is in the petition January as it was in the petitions that we sent and as it was stated in the January and June Draft plans uh support putting the Kent Road back in the urban growth area uh next we are next item we are opposed to the June changes to the Durham city
blasting permit application it is not in the best interest of citizens that uh have been impacted or will be impacted and this is evaluation is based on extensive involvement with the citizens and the issues that they're going through and work with the uh Durham City Fire Department thank you very much for hearing my input on these items thank you so much for your comments this afternoon Miss Ross you you would have three minutes ma'am if you are mute we should be able to hear you hello can you hear me yes we can oh sorry I didn't see the unmute button until just now so um I will comment more of course in the actual scad hearing but I believe that
the conservation uh excuse me the comprehensive plan should definitely be in place before you consider any more amendments especially um the developer-sponsored amendment uh recently I have requested and gotten um a list of all of the private citizen initiated amendments and so far I could be wrong maybe staff member will correct me but I haven't found one single one that wasn't sponsored initiated the applicant was not from the development Community I've also gone through um the I've studied the uniform development code from its the current version from its Inception background in 2004 2006 uh it seems that every Amendment almost every amendment that has been made especially those uh private ones from the development Community have been
directed to ease the restrictions ease the regulations and a submerge development applications uh away from public participation and public comment and that's why this by right has grown uh so that the public doesn't even know about major developments they're all administratively approved so with all this in mind I would certainly think that the council should postpone consideration of the scad amendment until after the final version of the comprehensive plan is in place and make sure that any future amendments comply with that plan so I will comment further when these are heard but that is uh my current uh comment for today thank you for your comments this afternoon I believe Ms Ross was the last person that
I have and our clerk is now verifying as a speaker so we'll now turn to item number 16 which is our pooled item and we have a speaker Mr Jerry McLean here in the audience who would like to speak to us sir if you will come and you will have three minutes to speak to us this afternoon and that item is the condemnation action to obtain two easement easements at 4 000 Fayetteville Street Mr McLean I'm not going to ask you how you're doing today because I've been doing bad for 10 years dealing with this problem my name is Jerry McLean I live at 4000 Fayetteville Street I don't owe the city anything the city has not purchased any property from me except for some bushes okay I was told by the city they would take my hedges down because they wanted to put a sidewalk in and then they could put the hedges back they did not pay for any dirt they know this this was before
2013 the person that said that to me is sitting in this house room right now okay if you want to condemn my property go ahead I was prepared for you to condemn it completely that's why I have not improved it I will not improve that property for you to devalue it you have denied it delayed it devalued it for 10 years you cannot show me my property line you've had six surveys in four years the last four years six you cannot show me my property line I've had 10 vehicles on that property six in the last four years my front porch is missing from the car that hit it in November I can't get a permit from the city the city tells me we don't see a need for aluminum storage shed of that size on your property so your permit application is denied and that was the fourth denial this is the
city I am sick of you people please take me to court please that's the only Justice I see all minorities color are gender city council Durham commission same thing and this is how you treat black people Henderson Tower of pure crime JFK crying 98 year low eight 98 year old lady got sore in her bathtub she's lucky to be able to climb in the bathtub I'm 76. I have been dealing with this since 2013. 2013. I'm bad I got eight thousand dollars invested in fighting this you offer me fourteen thousand I will be six thousand in the whole it cost me at least an estimate of seven thousand dollars to put up a chain link fence but you want me to pay it and then I get five four hundred dollars twice since September for not taking care of the
curve that I don't own twice by Neighborhood Services I get taxed 500 for a 17 fine in August for taxes not paid on property you got five polls occupied including your side walkers on my property you even made a mistake on that it's a hood repossession you told me my deed was wrong I got a letter from HUD on Monday telling me my deed is correct I got a letter from her telling me my property my reverse mortgage is correct because it's insured by Hud you got a City attorney that came on my property very biased from the get-go and from that point on it went downhill you sent a white man on my property telling me you're the sit I'm the City attorney and I need you to give my boy a break all right boy thank you so much Mr McLean for your comments
now turn to our item number 25 is a presentation from the Durham comprehensive plan 30 minutes has been allocated to that and we will turn it over to Ms Seibel I believe good afternoon all right my name is Kayla Seibel senior planner with the Durham City County Planning Department I am here today to give the presentation on the Durham comprehensive plan and I am joined today by my team members to help answer any questions at the end so we are here today as we approach the culmination of four years of collaborative work focusing on developing a new comprehensive plan that
centers Community Voices and equity for a presentation and discussion opportunity before the final public hearing on August 31st after that public hearing we anticipate returning with a final version of the comprehensive plan for adoption in October we are tentatively scheduled for the October 9th County Commissioners meeting and the October 16th council meeting thank you before we get into the details of the plan our team would like to acknowledge and thank the many individuals and organizations that have worked alongside us to develop and improve this plan to help it truly reflect the needs and priorities of this community we have worked hard to build these relationships and to rebuild trust through this work and could not have done it without the willingness from community members and staff who are willing to partner in this work so the labor of creating this plan has been chaired by so many we have listed some of the major Partners on the slide
and additional thinks and acknowledgments are included on the last page of the plan thank you to everyone who's helped us get to this point very briefly we'll go over the goals of this meeting overview of the plan explain the Planning Commission recommendation and go into details of the the map areas where decisions are still needed before the final plan is adopted our goal here is to make sure everyone has the same overview and the same information about the remaining decision points we also want to hear specific feedback from the city council on potential changes to the urban growth boundary as a city and county plan this is one of the most important growth management decisions the city and county to come to agreement on so how the plan is different from the last is summarized here on the slide and we've shown this many of your meetings but in short we have tried to balance growing smartly
from within our Urban footprint and aligning Urban expansion more closely with infrastructure planning we've tried to focus on the highest priorities we heard from residents around access to housing Safe Transportation options and Community sustainability and resiliency and we've tried to work towards more Equitable outcomes throughout the plan the Planning Commission recommendation and edits are shown on this slide I will summarize them so you don't have to read it all here so after public hearings and discussions at five different Planning Commission meetings the Planning Commission voted unanimously on June 13th to recommend approval of the new comprehensive plan as recommended by staff with one edit they've proposed their recommendation included a request to expand language in this policy 165 shown here so in summary this edit addresses how decisions on changes to the place type map are made this revised policy calls to consider
whether properties were previously within the Suburban development tier and that any changes to intensity of place types should be furthering affordable housing production environmental goals and approaches to Equitable engagement and outcomes so this edit came after all of that discussion and straw polls that we'll mention later but because there wasn't clear consensus on the map areas prior to June 13th this edit was suggested to go alongside staff's recommendations hopefully it will make more sense as we discuss each map in a moment so the main decision point we are left with concerns the urban growth boundary the proposed Urban growth boundary is a line Beyond which the city should not extend city services and particularly important for land use development should not extend Water and Sewer Service Beyond this line so in the old plan this line was called the Suburban tier and in the new plan it's called the urban growth boundary so
8 square miles due to infrastructure or environmental constraints in specific areas so as we've worked through the Planning Commission public hearing process six areas remain to reach consensus on and so for those who have been following these discussions very closely there are two areas the Snow Hill Road area and Arrowhead area those are places where Planning Commission and The Joint City County planning committee seem to agree with staff's recommendations that those remain outside of the urban growth boundary so they're not reflected in the discussion points here but they are shown in attachment B on the place type map so we'll walk through each of these areas in a moment creating the map and the growth
management strategy for the plan involved considering what residents said they wanted to see in their community and how they wanted to move around Durham and how they would like environmentally sensitive lands to be protected concerns about strain on existing infrastructure and of course the need for more housing housing types and housing affordability so the comprehensive plan not only recommends these areas areas for development which is represented by that Urban growth boundary and future growth areas but also types of development and intensities that start to get at those other Community Values those characteristics of development are shown in the form of place types which give us information about housing types Mobility environmental concerns infrastructure needs to consider in development proposals the playstate map does as a whole anticipate more units and a greater mix of uses where possible throughout the urban or newly urbanizing areas within the urban growth boundary
so given that we're recommending removing a little under 11 square miles from significant development potential again for these Environmental water sewer or Fire Reasons that has brought up questions about how this would impact the supply of future housing units so the triangle J Council of governments estimates that by 2050 Durham will need an additional 60 000 housing units to accommodate expected population growth using our best estimates we believe that even with those reductions in the urban growth boundary that this plan accommodates 143 000 more housing units at full build out this outcome depends on a few things implementing the comprehensive plan which happens incrementally um updating the zoning map to reflect those Place types and for the housing market to respond and build what we set aside land for so we believe that this plan provides a safety net in terms of number of needed housing units to allow for unsporteen circumstances such as changes in the housing market or more folks moving here
than we expected there's more information in attachment G page three this lists the different place types and the breakdown of what we can anticipate for possible densities of those we can come back to this at the end if there are more questions about these numbers so the summary of changes um related to the map looking County Wide the parcels shown in blue are the parcels that are currently within our Suburban tier under the old plan but which staff are recommending to be removed from the urban growth boundary in the new plan staff heard from a number of property owners who requested their properties be added back into our proposal that's how we ended up with these areas for discussion one of those areas is different and that it's a change to the Future growth area that is a staff supported change and this is the southeast future growth area we'll describe in more detail later the five other areas that are changes to
the urban growth boundary are circled on the map in red so we'd like to hear guidance on whether the map should change in these areas as we go through these if there's information we can bring to your joint public hearing that would be helpful for a final decision we're happy to do that just jumping into our first map area so the first example just may take a little bit longer to ask for folks to get oriented to looking at this map but there will be a pattern as we show a context map the staff recommendation and a potential change so first this is a larger view of the county for context then we'll show zoomed in side by side our first map is stag bull old Oxford Road area towards the Northeast near Trey burn these properties are all part of the trayburn master plan parts of which state back to the mid-1980s and are currently in the Suburban tier zooming in on the left side is staff's recommendation from our January draft the black and white outline
right here black and white outline that circles these very large areas right here those are the parcels in question these have Place types designated as Rural and agricultural Reserve shown in green so we recommended for moving these properties from the urban growth boundary in our proposal because of sewer limitations and because there is not currently adequate fire coverage out here right now in addition the majority of the property on East Side old Oxford Road is in the Falls Lake critical area and that's that blue line that's going through the middle of these properties here so after we shared this draft in January we heard from representatives for the property owner speak in favor of bringing these properties back into the ugb staff also heard from residents concerned about that fja critical Watershed protection overlay and concerns about this area developing so Planning Commission took a poll in
this issue and four members were in favor of keeping our January draft on the left and um seven members were in favor of changing the map to include these properties into the urban growth boundary so if these properties are added back into the ugb staff would recommend a mixed-use Neighborhood Place type shown in purple um and designating this area as a future growth area based on uh needed sewer and fire service out here for future development okay jumping into our next area we can go back to any of these this is the Farrington Mill Road area towards the South you can see that circled in the county map here these properties are currently in Suburban tier and there's an active zoning and annexation request called Sheffield Farms which was submitted after we released this draft zooming in so on the left side it's a
bit clearer here you can see that black and white outline for the areas in question you'll see staff's recommendation that these properties are outside of the urban growth boundary and designated as Rural and agricultural Reserve shown in Green in Recreation and open space shown in that lighter green we recommended removing these properties because of the complexity of serving this area with city sewer the Topography is in here in this area such that any sewer extensions would require pumping sewage uphill at multiple locations through existing City lift stations several of which are at capacity with no upgrades planned so after we shared this draft in January we heard from Property Owners asking to be added back in and staff also heard from residents concerned about development Happening Here Planning Commission looked at this they took a poll eight members were in favor of keeping these properties outside the urban growth boundary and three were in favor of changing the map so if these properties were added back
in staff of recommended mixed use neighborhood or mixed residential neighborhood Place types and designating this area as a future growth area to account for those Sewer Service limitations and and flag that as an issue okay our third area Patterson Road you can see circled on on the map here so zooming in the left side you see our recommendation from January again Rural and agricultural Reserve Place type here in the green we recommended removing these properties because a new sewer lift station would need to be constructed to serve this area of a city sewer however due to the size and limited number of properties it could be possible that a lift station could be constructed by a private developer to serve this entire area without City participation but staff heard from Property Owners wanting to be added back in and also heard from residents concerned about
these properties being added back to the urban growth boundary we received a petition from over 450 residents who would like to see the Patterson Road properties remain outside of the urban growth boundary so that original staff recommendation Planning Commission looked at this took a poll six members were in favor of keeping these properties outside the ugb and five were in favor of changing it so a six to five split there if these properties are added back in we'd recommend a mixed-use neighborhood and a mixed residential neighborhood Place type shown in the purple and brown our fourth area cheek Road Redwood Road you can see circled on the map here zooming in on the left side staff's recommendation is that these areas in this black and white outline are Rural and agricultural Reserve Shona green and outside of the urban Earth boundary we when we looked at this we recommended
removing these properties because a new sewer lift station would needed to be built for this area so because of the large size and the prop number of properties in this Basin a privately built lift station designed to be built and serve this area we we don't think is likely so in addition city sewer in this area would most likely be pumped to an existing City lift station it's already at capacity and um same with the same issue with the future development and fire coverage again staff heard from Property Owners wanting to be out back in staff heard from residents concerned with that request including receiving that another the same petition that that pointed to this cheek and Redwood Road as um as residents wanting to have this remain inside outside the urban Earth boundary Planning Commission took a poll members were in favor of keeping these properties outside the ugb so that original staff recommendation six were in favor of changing the map so
another five to six split here so if added back in we'd recommend a mixture of established residential Place types and mixed-use Neighborhood Place types and calling this a future growth area based on that sewer and fire service limitations to flag that for future development her next area at Hamlin Road um you can see here circled on the county map sorry about that zooming in these properties are currently in the Suburban tier and this request came in a little bit later after all the other ones were discussed at Planning Commission but they did have a time a chance to look at this at their June 13th meeting these properties are at 2503 and 2523 Hamlin Road and are in the Falls Lake District a which is the critical area of watershed of the Watershed overlay so that's this blue line and this blue marking here
the fja regulations would limit development on the property to one acre lots with six to nine percent impervious surface depending on the distance from Falls Lake when the Planning Commission looked at this they took a poll four members were in favor of keeping these properties outside the ugb that original staff recommendation and eight were in favor of changing the map so if added back in Stafford recommended mixed-use or sorry mixed residential neighborhood that brown color there and call this area a future growth area for again those are environmental concerns out here okay our last area this has to do with the southeast future growth area it's a little different than what we've discussed this is not changing that bigger ugb line but instead is it just a change to that future growth area that we already identified in the plan future growth areas again just as a reminder there are places that could see development activity in the near future they're generally founded on the fringes
of the city limits and they're shown with this red hat hatching and in the plan they're always within the urban growth boundary and we've already outlined police types to anticipate that that new development out there um but they are they all the future growth areas have needs a critical infrastructure needs like water sewer fire service to serve new development so we went ahead and flagged that as part of the future growth areas so zooming in the staff recommendation is to so our current staff recommendation is shown on the right here is to remove this Northwest portion here kind of outlining it with my mouse um in the January draft the entire east of Kemp Road and Virgil Road was included based on conversations about fire surface limitations but since that time the fire department determined that this area this Northwestern area
could be served currently without adding another station so because of that information we are recommending to make that change to remove this Northwestern portion from the future Earth area when Planning Commission looked at this issue two were in favor of keeping that first recommendation we had in January and eight were in favor of the staff recommended change to remove that Northeastern portion one member Epstein from from the discussion so this is the last of the map decisions I mentioned before that after Planning Commission talks about all these areas and not a whole lot of consensus in those polls for changes they voted to recommend approval of staff's recommendations generally this the January draft with some staff edits and that changed to policy 165 that I showed earlier that we can look at again if that's more helpful so with that you've heard an overview
we'd love to hear any specific feedback from you all on any of those potential changes as a city and county plan again this is one of the most important growth management decisions for the city and county to come to an agreement on about those potential edits before the plan is adopted so with that staff is here to answer any questions thank you John well done I'll turn it over to colleagues for questions looking to my right left first looking to my right go ahead thank you I don't know who I should be coming okay I'm just like super cubby are a few just ask your question we'll we'll pick the best person okay thank you I was like oh I don't know who I'm supposed to be asking um thank you for the presentation um these were the same cases that we saw at jccpc right I'm not having like weird Groundhog Day okay all right like I was having something you are having a weird groundhog and I honestly can't I mean I remember we had really robust great discussion I
should just go back and while we don't videotape that one but um can you refresh our memories because that was in June please um because I feel like in many cases we kind of went with what Planning Commission had already done I think there was a couple that maybe we didn't so I would love to and it doesn't have to be now I would love to have that information and then when I go my understanding and I brought this up at jccpc just a couple days ago was that this all of this is that this comp plan in general is not supposed to be like a static document it's supposed to be a responsive iterative document because I had we've had many robust conversations at jccpc about some of my concerns with the urban growth boundary while I completely understand it wanting to really ensure that we don't take too much land out that then you know really limits our ability really not ours but in the future to
have to make different choices and it's been stated that there's going to be a thought biannual analysis on that and that we would get kind of updates to ensure that we are not messing with the you know our ability to have good develop well this is all tricky developable land which is why we're having these conversations but that we have choices in the future that we're not tying future decision makers hands yes so there is um one of the policies directs the planning department to do a biannual assessment and um as I mentioned several times this might be Groundhog Day for you too council member but uh we plan for on it to be more robust than what we did with the last comprehensive plan where we just had an annual update just kind of mostly just to make sure the city and county plans were aligned so we have a list of things that we we plan on presenting to the city council and the County Commission on the biannual basis and then one thing we discussed today because you've been very consistent
about bringing this issue up is that we could add in the policy it's 162. 164. probably whatever policy that has the biennial review in it which may be 162 or 164. we would add specifically add the review of the urban growth boundary and the adequacy of housing production or something like that so that we can make it clear that we're we are going to do that rather than just believing me when I say we're going to do it thank you and I really appreciate that um I've been also really clear and for you all it's repetitive so I hear you loud and clear um but for the public who who isn't in jccp meetings it's not repetitive so I'm just using this opportunity we have a a great neighbor who had put in an urban growth boundary many many decades ago now but then did not do the densification that was needed inside their growth boundary which is actually in my opinion really Limited their opportunity to build housing and
that has actually had repercussions for Jerome um so I don't want to be that neighbor and uh uh so I I hear you all loud and clear thank you for saying there's going to be a clear policy that we can reference that future future decision makers can reference that residents can reference that's really important to me um I'm going to have I look forward to reviewing these cases again with the added layer of what we said in jccpc because that's important for me um we have been getting a few Property Owners reaching out to us so I hear that concern loud and clear but I also hear the other residents not just those Property Owners I just so that my colleagues know I really appreciate that that last staff recommendation it makes sense to me I know the fire um fire service ability was a real big question so I have no problem with that one it didn't seem like Planning Commission had a problem with that one that's pretty straightforward I still have questions on the other ones that I'm going to have to probably bother you
all now between now and the 31st so asking for patience ahead of that thank you thank you councilwoman Caballero mayor protein thank you ma'am thank you madam Aaron thank you for a great presentation we're approaching a really important threshold we've been living with this for a couple of years now um three and a half years I want to thank councilman caviaro for alluding to the work that's going on in the jccpc so we I've certainly been living with it as well for a few years I do want to um kind of manage expectations for the people of our city this is a plan this is a comprehensive plan it does not have the force of law uh behind it it is a value statement it is aspirational we have a plan in place right now from 2005 that's operable and we're taking votes and sometimes we we do things that are reconcilable with it and some things we deviate because it was a snapshot when it was developed and things have changed so I do want to say that you
know decision makers on the next Council and councils after this I hopefully will look at this plan and and govern themselves accordingly but as conditions change in their time they'll have to govern accordingly with that said I do have a question about policy 165. I also want to say you know to the folk of the city if we say we will not expand our city Beyond this line we are now going to get thicker and higher that's just inevitable you can't have it both if you're going to stop sprawl then hype becomes inevitable and and more denser neighborhoods and I want to you know as we prepare to talk about things like scad and other things and I haven't said anything publicly because I want to do this in a public hearing I want us to remember that a denser Urban environment and a higher and urban environment has implications for gentrification it has implications for for parking and how how we now deal with where we're going to put our cars it has implications for all these things we're talking about so
I want to just remind our folks that as we make our city more compact I grew up in an urban environment a very crowded Urban environment and it looks very different it sounds very different it feels very different and we're going to have to do different things so I just want to put that out there um finally on policy 165 recommendation of approval with edits to policy 165. number one what it says uh policy 165 amendments to the place type map including the ugb and FDA should only be permitted when the proposal demonstrates that number one adequate public utilities emergency services transportation services and public schools are available uh I just want to how are we going to operationalize adequate because we've had many debates in here where professionals will say we have the capacity Searles is in that capacity folks just don't believe you you just say no it's not so so when we say adequate as a decision maker you know I I need to be able to operationalize that and actually turn that into something that I can cast votes on and and make
decisions on so could you say a little bit about about who's going to be the the referee for adequacy so we as the in city and county staff we're city and county staff but most of us are City staff in this room we you know the fire department has response times and the police department has their um levels of service we will the city departments when you have just like when you make annexation decisions now we'll provide an analysis of can we serve it or what would it take to serve this um and so we'll give you we'll continue with the same managers Guidance the best advice we can but ultimately the decision on whether it's adequate or not falls on the set of seven of you that right thank you for saying and I'll put a period fine point here because when you tell us it's adequate and we vote based upon that and folk get mad at us and say no it's not adequate because I'm in traffic or because whatever um we're still going to have this comprehensive plan is not going to stop those kind of fights we're still going
to have those attention points we're still going to have those same debates with this wonderful beautiful document it is beautiful an aspirational document but I just want to manage expectations that the day after we passed this and start voting on new developments we're still going to be having some of the same discussions and rightfully so um but I look forward to it that's you know that's why we volunteer for this um thank you so much thank you madam mayor yield back all right okay everybody just to as a reminder uh the Durham County Board of Commissioners and city council will be conducting a public hearing on Thursday August 31st 2023 here at 7 pm on the Durham comprehensive plan we now turn to our clerk for our boards and commissions thank you
thank you madam mayor all right I've got the the listing of nominations I'll start with historic preservation commission the mayoral appointment is Faye J Calhoun Durham City County Environmental Affairs board appointment is mirin behema mayor's Council for women appointment these are all nominations for the category of cultural Recreation Fine Arts sector is Sherry Christensen Durham bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission appointment for the category of recreation Urban trails and Greenways is Marissa Hartzler the citizen advisory committee appointment nomination is Matthew montine and due to Mr muntin being the nomination for the citizen advisory committee we have an undercount of Christopher Rhodes for the at-large position on participatory
budgeting and I wanted to ask if council member and mayor Pro tem mayor protem Middleton and council member Williams would like to shift their votes from Madam clerk did you say an undercount yes we didn't have enough votes for Mr Rhodes under the PB because it it appeared that the vote had been split between the CAC and the participatory budgeting um neither you mayor Pro tem nor council member Williams had voted for the second choice under participatory budgeting because Mr Rhodes had applied for both PB and the CAC okay so what are you asking me to do now what I'm asking is if you would shift your vote from Mr Rhodes under PB
I'm sorry Mr Rhodes under CAC over to Mr Rhodes under PB so he would be nominated to the PB at Large position got you okay yeah no worries thank you would you like to do that yes ma'am would you both do that no I'm sorry yes all right thank you sure so so the nominations for Pb steering committee at large would be Christopher Rhodes and Lauren Lee p schull and then the youth position nomination is Aza born Garand and that's the end of my report thank you so much to our city clerk I'll now turn to our city manager to begin to settle our agenda thank you madam mayor for your city council agenda we have for consent items one through 24 and GBA public hearing
item 26. thank you thank you I'm ready to entertain a motion to settle out all right it's been moved by councilman Williams second about councilwoman caballera all those in favor of Osama saying I I all those opposed have a saint right hearing none okay let's just sit here for a few minutes because we have if Savor this moment for the council we have finished at 2 21 a record time for us Bull City strong we are hereby adjourn great work colleagues because you know we're all running to do the next thing all right thanks everybody great meeting I want you to do