Growth & Development
The Marian Cheek Jackson Center, in collaboration with UNC and Self Help Credit Union, is leading a process to develop strategies to shift the Northside neighborhood's trajectory away from increasing student housing and decreasing long-term single family housing to be more diverse (in 1980 the neighborhood was 59.3% African American and by 2010 is was down to 23.8% - data from Self Help/Jackson Center).
These partners have created a Compass Group of current and former residents of Northside and other interested parties. Through meetings with this Group and conversations with Northside neighbors a list of 5 community aspirations was developed:
1. Preserving a sense of culture and community identify, as well as preserving African-American land ownership in Northside;
2. Helping long-term residents improve their housing conditions and quality of life;
3. Minimizing the negative impacts of student renters/rentals, and perhaps cooling off the student rental market;
4. Maintaining/restoring a close-knit, proud community, and
5. Building a neighborhood that attracts a diverse range of individuals and families going forward.
For better or for worse, our local media works hard to give equal air time to both sides of the story. Some may fault them as giving too much voice to an opinion which represents a small minority of residents, others may thank them for giving life to a discussion. Regardless of what you think, it's sometimes difficult to cut through the noise. So where does the community stand on the whole?
Date:
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Committee Room, 2nd Floor of Durham City Hall, 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham
In a February work session of the county commissioners, Chapel Hill mayor Mark Kleinschmidt took the podium to present a sweeping overview of the past 25 years of his town's approach to land use planning. Speaking with the didactic urgency we now expect from Kleinschmidt when he's both prepared and fired up, the mayor encouraged the commissioners to maintain their commitment to long-term planning for public transportation by adopting the Orange County transit plan.
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