TLNA represents approximately 550 households in southwestern central Durham.
Our neighborhood is already one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Durham.
The neighborhood association is here as a resource. Check this page for for information for Durham residents, homeowners, other associations such as Neighborhood Watch, PAC and InterNeighborhood Council. We need input from every corner of the neighborhood. James Street to Chapel Hill Road, Lakewood Avenue to Chapel Hill Boulevard.
A Neighborhood Protection Overlay for Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
(04.22.08 Update)
Our NPO has been approved unanimously!
Thanks to all for their 20 months of dedication to this project. This is a victory for our neighborhood and all of Durham.
Join Artist Brett Cook For a Face Up Celebration
(04.22.08 Update)
Dear Friends,
Please join me Friday from 4-8 p.m. for Durham Get Together , our last Face Up: Telling Stories of community life project event. The event takes place at the Center for Documentary Studies and we will enjoy food, great music, coloring, quilting, sketchbooks, a shoe labyrinth and a talk by artist Brett Cook. Hope to see all of you there.
Barbara Lau
Community Documentary Project Director Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University 1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705 919-660-3676 919-681-7600 (fax)
More Info:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
balau@duke.edu
A Neighborhood Protection Overlay for Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
(04.07.08 Update)
Mark your calendars:
The final public hearing for our Neighborhood Protection Overlay has been placed on the City Council's agenda for:
!!! Monday, April 21, 7:00 p.m. (101 City Hall Plaza) !!!
This is the night the Council will vote on whether to approve our NPO. If it passes, the NPO will be added to Durham's zoning ordinance. After our 10-minute presentation, we will ask everyone who supports the NPO to please stand.
Please plan to come to the hearing and support an NPO for Tuscaloosa-Lakewood. If you need a ride, contact Frances Kerr ( frances@duke.edu ; 490-6942).
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The final draft of the Tuscaloosa Lakewood NPO text is available for download here:
Download text as Word Document: 2008.03.19_TL_NPO_Final_Draft.doc
Download text as PDF: 2008.03.19_TL_NPO_Final_Draft.pdf
Download map boundaries as PDF: tl_npo_proposed_map.pdf
For the Planning Department's description of the NPO process, scroll to “Neighborhood Protection Overlay” at the following link: http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/planning/applications.cfm#NPO
History: The neighborhood first started working on an NPO in the fall of 2006. The document has gone through many drafts, with input from neighbors and staff members in the City-County Planning Department. The Joint City-County Planning Committee voted to support the adoption of the NPO at its meeting in January 2008. The Planning Commission recommended adoption in February 2008.
For questions or comments, contact Frances Kerr: francesnc@gmail.com ; 490-6942.
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The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University invites you to a
WEST END BLOCK PARTY
In conjunction with Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life
2–6 p.m. SUNDAY, APRIL 13
* FOOD * MUSIC * ART * FUN * FREE *
Location: Corner of Cornell and Halley Streets, Durham NC |
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Face-Up is a documentary arts project devoted to building and strengthening community in Southwest Central Durham through the collaborative creation of a series of large-scale, locally inspired public murals.
Artist Brett Cook, whose unique approach combines drawing, painting, and photography with enthnographic fieldwork and community organizing, is collaborating on the Durham project in January-May 2008.
More information: www.faceuproject.com
Questions: 660-3676 or 660-3664
Face Up is a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in association with the Southwest Central Durham Quality of life Project and the Duke University Office of Community Affairs.
Barbara Lau
Community Documentary Project Director
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
919-660-3676
919-681-7600 (fax)
http://cds.aas.duke.edu <> balau@duke.edu
February 13, 2008 - NPO Update
Planning Commission Recommends Approval of
Our Neighborhood Protection Overlay
Vote: 9-1
The Joint City-County Planning Commission voted to recommend our proposed NPO for adoption by the City Council. By a 9-1 margin, planning commissioners supported the goals and the bulk of the language of the NPO. They lauded our efforts to protect our unique and extensive tree canopy against unstudied development, and agreed with most other provisions in the NPO.
They also recommended that language in the NPO pertaining to commercial properties be clarified to better explain how the NPO affects commercial properties not converted from residential houses. We believe this clarification to the NPO language will help the few businesses who have not yet completely seen the benefits of the NPO come to understand its purpose. We will work with them and the Planning Department in the coming weeks, doing our best to extend the broad consensus we have worked to achieve throughout this process.
We could not have done this without consonant diligence and care from the rest of neighborhood. Close to fifty people came out to the hearing to support the NPO. The Planning Commission was visibly impressed when NPO Committee Chair Frances Kerr asked those supporting the NPO to stand. Several of the commissioners thanked us for the hard work we have done.
As we celebrate this success, we know that the process is not yet complete. The City Council must vote to adopt the changes outlined in the NPO. Stay tuned to this Web site and the TLNA list-serv for the date and time of the City Council meeting when the Tuscaloosa-Lakewood NPO will be on the agenda.
City Council Public Hearing Soon
We'll need your support more than ever at the City Council meeting. Look for announcements coming soon.
For questions or comments, contact Frances Kerr: francesnc@gmail.com ; 490-6942.
Rufus and Annie Rigsbee House. Gable-and-wing 2-story
house with a hipped roof, weatherboards, boxed eaves,
a large center chimney, and a wraparound porch. The
1/1 sash windows and the paired turned posts may be
replacements. The side-gabled 1-story wing on the
south side is an addition. The W. I. Dodson family has
owned the house since before 1952.
It's quite spacious at 2100 square feet. It has tall 14-foot ceilings on the main level. The asking price is $120K. The house is considered a contributing property in the Lakewood Park National Register Historic District and is thus eligible for the generous 30% State of NC Income Tax Credits for rehabilitation expenses.
In addition to failing to comply with the above stipulations, other acts which are enforceable as animal cruelty violations include, but are not limited to:
" Allowing animals to live in crowded or unsanitary conditions.
" Failure or refusal to obtain medical treatment for an animal.
" Shooting a dog, either on or off of the owner's property unless the dog is in the act of attacking a human being or livestock.
" Leaving an animal in a closed vehicle or other enclosure for such duration or at such temperatures as an Animal Control Officer or animal cruelty investigator deems harmful or potentially harmful to the animal.
" Carrying or causing to be carried in or upon the open area of a truck or other motor vehicle any animal that is not secured in an animal carrier or by a harness or other device, such that the animal cannot fall from, jump from or be thrown from the vehicle.
" Failure or refusal to report injured or killed domestic animals.
Contacting Animal Control
Animal Control's regular hours are 8:30-5:00 M-F. Office phone numbers (919) 560-0630/0631.
The website is http://www.durhamcountync.gov/departments/anml/.
If you have an emergency after hours, on the weekend or on a holiday, contact 911 who will contact Animal Control for you.
You can use the non-emergency line at (919) 560-4606 to request assistance from Animal Control.
If you want to make a complaint, you should contact the office during regular hours of operation.
Calls regarding Animal Cruelty and Animals At Large complaints can be accepted anonymously.
