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Durham City Council

City of Durham · Durham City Council
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Regular meeting Economic development incentives

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What's on this agenda

A regular council meeting on the Tuesday after the Martin Luther King holiday. Seven pieces of business after the ceremonial opening: a public needs hearing on the five-year consolidated plan, a planning commission appointment, a reentry workforce grant agreement, three zoning map changes, and a hearing on an economic development incentive agreement. 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.

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Meeting recap

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

The council sat two hours and forty-six minutes, and spent nearly a third of it on one rezoning.

Brickworks took 46 minutes, longer than the rest of the zoning business combined. The two other map changes went quickly: 3112 South Alston Avenue in nine minutes and Davis Park West in eight. The economic development incentive agreement with a local contracting firm carried its own public hearing and ran 30 minutes.

The evening opened with a National Mentoring Month proclamation, then announcements by council and priority items from the city manager, attorney and clerk, which together took 38 minutes - longer than any single item of business except Brickworks and the incentive hearing. The consent agenda passed in under five. The five-year consolidated plan and annual action plan public needs hearing, which sets how Durham will spend its federal housing and community development money from 2025 to 2030, took nine minutes.

How the votes went

The city did not record outcomes in the video index for this meeting, so how each item was decided is not on file here.

Speaking at this meeting

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Jump to an item (17 on this agenda)
  1. Call to Order
  2. Moment of Silent Meditation
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Roll Call
  5. National Mentoring Month Proclamation
  6. Announcements by Council
  7. Priority Items by the City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk
  8. Consent Agenda
  9. 17FIVE-YEAR (FY2025-2030) CONSOLIDATED PLAN & FY2025-2026 ANNUAL ACTION…
  10. 1DURHAM PLANNING COMMISSION - APPOINTMENT
  11. 5PARTNERS FOR REENTRY OPPORTUNITIES IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (PROWD) G…
  12. 14ZONING MAP CHANGE - 3112 SOUTH ALSTON AVENUE
  13. 15ZONING MAP CHANGE BRICKWORKS
  14. 16ZONING MAP CHANGE DAVIS PARK WEST
  15. 18PUBLIC HEARING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WITH ELLI…
  16. Other Matters
  17. Adjournment

Agenda items (17)

Other · 8Procedural · 5Proclamation or recognition · 1Consent agenda · 1Appointment · 1Public hearing · 1
  1. Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. Moment of Silent Meditation
    Other
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
    Procedural
  4. Roll Call
    Procedural
  5. National Mentoring Month Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition
  6. Announcements by Council
    Procedural
  7. Priority Items by the City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk
    Other
  1. 17 FIVE-YEAR (FY2025-2030) CONSOLIDATED PLAN & FY2025-2026 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN PUBLIC NEEDS HEARING
    Other
  2. 1 DURHAM PLANNING COMMISSION - APPOINTMENT
    Appointment
  3. 5 PARTNERS FOR REENTRY OPPORTUNITIES IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (PROWD) GRANT COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES, INC. D.B.A. ECKERD CONNECTS
    Other
  4. 14 ZONING MAP CHANGE - 3112 SOUTH ALSTON AVENUE
    Other
  5. 15 ZONING MAP CHANGE BRICKWORKS
    Other
  6. 16 ZONING MAP CHANGE DAVIS PARK WEST
    Other
  7. 18 PUBLIC HEARING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WITH ELLIS D. JONES AND SONS, INC.
    Public hearing Economic development incentives
  8. Other Matters
    Other
  9. 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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