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Durham City Council

City of Durham · Durham City Council
Monday, April 21, 2025

Regular meeting AnnexationCivil rights and nondiscriminationGrants and outside fundingWater and sewerZoning text amendment

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What's on this agenda

A long regular meeting: four ceremonial items, a consent agenda covering seventeen items in one vote, and eight pieces of substantive business including two annexations, a privately initiated development ordinance text amendment and a zoning map change on Ellis Road. Durham withdrew the Granicus agenda for this meeting, so the record here is the city's own index of the video: the item titles the clerk entered and the point in the recording each one starts. That gives what the council took up and how long it spent, but not the papers behind each item.

Summarized from the published agenda. Read the agenda itself before acting on it.

Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting.

Three hours and forty-four minutes, every recorded vote unanimous.

The city's video index carries the outcomes for this meeting, and each one reads "passes unanimously": the consent agenda taking items 1 through 17 in a single vote, a city code amendment on water and sewer connections, a contract to prepare the five-year consolidated plan and the fair housing impediments analysis, substantial amendments to the 2020-2025 consolidated plan covering community development block grant and HIV housing money, two consolidated annexations, a consolidated item for the Page and Miami design district, a privately initiated text amendment, and a zoning map change at 1202 Ellis Road.

The largest single block of time was the amendments to the consolidated plan and four years of annual action plans, at 39 minutes. The Page Corners annexation took 30 minutes and the Ellis Road map change eight. The council recessed for 14 minutes about two hours in.

The ceremonial opening ran to four items - proclamations for tuberous sclerosis awareness and fair housing month, recognition of community partner development course graduates, and national community development week - and announcements by council took 37 minutes on their own.

How the votes went

Every outcome the clerk recorded in the video index passed unanimously, across nine separate votes including the seventeen-item consent agenda.

Speaking at this meeting

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Jump to an item (22 on this agenda)
  1. Call to Order
  2. Moment of Silent Meditation
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Roll Call
  5. Ceremonial Item - Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Awareness Day Proclamati…
  6. Ceremonial Item - Community Partner Development Course Graduate Recog…
  7. Ceremonial Item - Fair Housing Month Proclamation
  8. Ceremonial Item - National Community Development Week Proclamation
  9. Announcements by Council
  10. Priority Items by City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk
  11. Consent Agenda (one vote for items 1 - 17)
  12. 5City Code Amendment for Water and Sewer Connections
  13. 6Contract with Corporate F.A.C.T.S., Inc. for the Preparation of the F…
  14. 23Proposed Substantial Amendments to the FY2020-2025 Consolidated Plan…
  15. Break / Recess
  16. 18Consolidated Annexation – Romero Residence
  17. 19Consolidated Item - Page/Miami Design District
  18. 20TC2400003: A Privately Initiated Unified Development Ordinance (UDO)…
  19. 21Consolidated Annexation – Page Corners
  20. 22Zoning Map Change – 1202 Ellis Road
  21. Other Matters
  22. Adjournment

Agenda items (22)

Other · 8Procedural · 6Proclamation or recognition · 4Ordinance · 2Consent agenda · 1Contract or award · 1
  1. Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. Moment of Silent Meditation
    Other
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
    Procedural
  4. Roll Call
    Procedural
  5. Ceremonial Item - Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Awareness Day Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition
  6. Ceremonial Item - Community Partner Development Course Graduate Recognition
    Proclamation or recognition
  7. Ceremonial Item - Fair Housing Month Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition Civil rights and nondiscrimination
  8. Ceremonial Item - National Community Development Week Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition
  9. Announcements by Council
    Procedural
  10. Priority Items by City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk
    Other
  1. 5 City Code Amendment for Water and Sewer Connections
    Ordinance Water and sewer
    Passes unanimously
  2. 6 Contract with Corporate F.A.C.T.S., Inc. for the Preparation of the Five-Year (2025-2029) Consolidated Plan, 2025 Annual Action Plan, Citizen Participation Plan, and 2025-2029 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice
    Contract or award Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    Passes unanimously
  3. 23 Proposed Substantial Amendments to the FY2020-2025 Consolidated Plan and FY2021-2022, FY2022-2023, FY2023-2024, and FY2024-2025 Annual Action Plans for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
    Other Grants and outside funding
    Passes unanimously
  4. Break / Recess
    Procedural
  5. 18 Consolidated Annexation – Romero Residence
    Other Annexation
    Passes unanimously
  6. 19 Consolidated Item - Page/Miami Design District
    Other
    Passes unanimously
  7. 20 TC2400003: A Privately Initiated Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment
    Ordinance Zoning text amendment
    Passes unanimously
  8. 21 Consolidated Annexation – Page Corners
    Other Annexation
    Passes unanimously
  9. 22 Zoning Map Change – 1202 Ellis Road
    Other
    Passes unanimously
  10. Other Matters
    Other
  11. Adjournment
    Procedural

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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