INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
Making Better Neighborhoods
http://www.rtpnet.org/durhminc
Minutes of Meeting of April 25, 2000
Police Department Community Services Room
Al Stone |
Duke Homestead |
Anne Guyton |
Morehead Hill |
Carrie Mowry |
Colony Park |
Dale Stouch |
Placid Valley |
Erick Larson |
TLNA |
Fred L. Mowry |
Colony Park |
George Carter |
Forest Hills |
John Dagenhart |
Trinity Park |
Joseph Fedrowitz |
Lakewood Park |
Karen Hassall |
Northgate Park |
Linwood D. Best |
City of Durham Housing & Community Development |
Mary Kiesau |
Sierra Club |
Mike Shiflett |
Watts Hospital/Hillandale |
Norm Krause |
Hope Valley |
John Dagenhart called the meeting to order at 7:05.
Treasurer Norm Krause reported that sixteen neighborhoods have paid dues so far this year. The INC bank balance stands at $1129.
Neighborhood Summit-2000 will be held Saturday, October 21, from 8:30 to 2:00 at the Durham Armory at Foster and Morgan streets. The summit is sponsored by the Inter-Neighborhood Council in cooperation with the Durham Parks and Recreation Department. Guglhupf Bakery will cater coffee, juices, tea, and German bread and pastries.
Featured Speaker: John Compton, executive director of the Historic Preservation Society of Durham, explained what the organization does and described the up-coming 4th annual Old Durham Historic Tour.
· Historic district status: Neighborhoods are eligible to be designated as historic districts when homes are at least 50 years only. Application for historic status is an long process; among other things, it requires documenting each building in the district. The society provides advice and help with this process. Owners who renovate historic district homes are eligible for tax credits.
· Revolving fund: The society purchases historic old buildings at risk for demolition, restores them, attaches protective covenants and resells them. In 1999 the society purchased three properties and sold one.
· Historic tour: This year the tour focuses on Durham's tobacco heritage, showing "how the proud architecture of a one-great industry is being adapted for exciting new uses."
More information on the society is available on its Web site, http://www.rtpnet.org/~hpsd/.
Sierra Club: Mary Kiesau reported that the Sierra Club and other organizations are trying to collect 10,000 signatures to support Governor Hunt's "Million Acres" initiative - an attempt to add 1,000,000 acres to North Carolina's protected lands. Governor Hunt will announce the campaign officially on May 27.
Mary also directed members' attention to a report by the national Sierra Club on the costs of sprawl. The study is on the Web at www.sierraclub.org/sprawl. The club plans to do another report focused on sprawl in North Carolina, she said.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:12
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