The Planning Commission unanimously approved the city's new comprehensive plan despite contentious public opposition to urban growth boundary expansion into southeast Durham.
Planning Commission voted 12-0 to approve the comprehensive plan despite staff recommending against urban growth boundary expansion into southeast Durham due to infrastructure and environmental constraints.
Over 50 residents from southeast Durham presented 465 petition signatures opposing growth, citing fire department unable to meet eight-minute response times and water quality degradation in Lick Creek entering Falls Lake.
Commission unanimously approved Fairhaven Walk, a 192-unit affordable housing project with Head Start childcare in Bragtown, after two years of community support.