Oppose Application Z2000041: Rezoning 30 Acres at Guess & Latta Roads

What You Can Do

- by September 10: Hand-written letters snail mail is the priority.
- If you decide to Email, subject should include Case # Z2000041 “Vote No” or “No Commercial Rezoning” Suggested topics below.

Durham Planning Commission Meeting, Tuesday, September 14 – 5:30 pm- Durham City Hall or On-Line
Register for Webinar
- Online meeting
- You can register to give your opinion without speaking

Our Vision - a new (innovative, sustainable, inclusive) concept for Suburban Residential design or intermingled townhouses, single family houses and duplexes and sharing greenspace and amenities. We see 7-8 units per acre. Durham needs housing.
The key is good project design and good unit design.
The Comprehensive Plan is a well thought out and valuable resource to guide quality development for Durham into the future, developed by professionals at taxpayer expense

A signal from Planning and Council to developers that they can rezone easily for greenfield to commercial, the old, sad, worn-out strips will remain empty and abandoned as eyesores along the streetscape.

Durham is in such high demand and the Planning Commission and City Council are in a unique and powerful position to impact the future of Durham Suburban Residential. Once a new model exists others will follow, and Durham will gain a reputation for quality and high standards.

Push Developers to innovate residential rather than financially incentivizing them to go for zoning changes on greenfield residential land. Our community needs residential housing.

We are saturated with supermarkets (6), convenience stores, and tired old 1970s commercial strips within 3 miles of Latta/Guess. Old commercial strips encompass all of Roxboro road and most of Guess from I-85 to Rose of Sharon.
There are 11 big box pharmacies north of I-85. New commercial in saturated areas means that established outlets will not survive.
The Comprehensive Plan stipulates a distance between commercial nodes for development, and there is a node (CN) at the intersection of Guess and Umstead. Guess Rd should not be made into another Roxboro Rd, Hillsborough Rd, Hwy 98.
The impact of commercial development on the surrounding neighborhoods would be tremendous.
Noise, traffic, and storm water runoff will increase.
According to the Developer all grocery store trucks, delivery trucks for the other business and buses leave via one exit onto Latta Rd and there won’t be a traffic light at that intersection. Trucks are supposed to turn left across all the traffic lanes to go south on Guess Rd regardless of their next destination. Latta Road is not designed for the weight and use which these trucks would inevitably demand.

Brian Buzby, Chair 1601 Cliff Street Durham, NC 27707; bbuzby72@gmail.com ; 919-401-1133
Austin Amandolia, Vice Chair 900 Park Ridge Rd, B5 Durham, NC 27713; austin4durham@gmail.com 919-408-7172
Nathaniel Baker 1810 Northgate St Durham, NC 27704;nbaker@clarionassociates.com
Garry Cutright, 3 North Ridge Pl Durham, NC 27705; garry@calculuscommercial.com;
Erin Durkin, 811 Shepherd St Durham, NC 27701; erin.durkin@gmail.com; 504-220-8797
Bruce Harrod, 2217 Tampa Ave Durham, NC 27705; bharrodDPC@outlook.com; 919-291-1722
David Lowe, 4181 Adcock Rd Bahama, NC 27503; dplowe@hughes.net; 919-620-5840
Scot MacIver, 5238 Summit Ridge Dr Durham, NC 27712; Maciver919@gmail.com
David Morgan, 116 Virginia Crest Way Durham, NC 27703; David_Morgan28202@att.net
Anthony Sease, 205 Watts St Durham, NC 27701; walkabledurham@gmail.com; 919-405-2000
Kimberly Cameron, 1515 Pebblestone Crossing Durham, NC 27713; planningcommissionerkimcameron@gmail.com
Carmen Williams, 1710 NC Highway 55 Durham, NC 27707; commissionercarmen@gmail.com; 919-201-1115
Zuri Williams 517 Jerome Rd Durham, NC 27713; DurhamplanningZW@gmail.com