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  • Fake Housing Need

    There is actually a glut of rental units 4-2-2024 Open Letter to Mayor Williams and Councilmembers:    Last night, again, the council approved major residential construction in the beleaguered southeast Durham area.  A current resident pointed out that existing apartment buildings had low occupancy refuting any need for even more large rental projects.  VM Middleton…

  • Hope but no cigar

    Our March 5th election of Durham County commissioners resulted in the two incumbents (Jacobs and Allam) with Durham power (money) support were re-elected. The two incumbents who sometimes bucked the development steamroll, Burns and Howerton, were defeated. On the bright side, the first candidate I recommended, the one with a proven record of putting Durham…

  • Save Durham by voting March 5th

    VOTE Tuesday or accept North Durham will be Southeast Durham very soon. This is about the county commissioners as they are county residents’ ONLY elected officials. I have already shared that I am voting for Stephen Valentine, Nimasheena Burns and Brenda Howerton. And I’ve recommended against incumbants Jacobs and Allam because both have a consistent…

  • VOTE like Durham depends on it!

    VOTE and save North Durham. My incomplete sample ballot. I believe the three candidates I’ve circled (or rectangled) are the most likely to stand up to development sharks coming for North Durham. I will be voting for Stephen VALENTINE because he has already proven he values our environment and open spaces by his several years…

  • Why we must change Durham BOCC

    I just saw this email to the BOCC – since communications with our elected officials are public documents, I am sharing it here. Will the BOCC ignore this citizen? So far they have done nothing. > To: nallam@dconc.gov <nallam@dconc.gov>; nburns@dconc.gov <nburns@dconc.gov>; hcarter@dconc.gov <hcarter@dconc.gov>; bhowerton@dconc.gov <bhowerton@dconc.gov>; wjacobs@dconc.gov <wjacobs@dconc.gov> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 07:17:34 PM EST Subject: Serious on-going road hazard in Durham County enters 3rd year For over…

  • On Being Sold Out

    December 13, 2023 County Commissioners (BOCC) gave us the middle finger last night. Twice. Despite a good turnout of opposition and lots of written input, 3 out of 4 of them (one of the five absent) voted to blindly follow the city council in approving the developers’ wish list, the SCAD amendments to the Uniform…

  • Concerned citizens on SCAD:

    From Tom Miller, former planning commissioner and member of Mayor’s SCAD Task Force; About SCAD  Task Force Convened This is the fifth of a series of short pieces about problems with SCAD.  What is SCAD?  It is a developer-proposed re-write of Durham’s zoning code or “UDO.”  The SCAD acronym was coined by the developers to…

  • SaveDurham.com is dedicated to the open spaces, farming, woods, wildlife, and waterways and lakes in north Durham County.

    Rampant and irresponsible development has already decimated southeast Durham. We admire the tireless efforts of our friends at PreserveRuralDurham to protect the little remaining open spaces of southeast Durham and, especially, the critical waterways and lakes on which we all depend. For a great deal of information about existing damage and threats to the entire…