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Durham City Council

City of Durham · Durham City Council
Monday, May 5, 2025

Regular meeting RezoningHealth and human servicesHousing and affordabilityWater and sewer

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What's on this agenda

The Durham City Council met on 5 May 2025. Two land use cases were before it: the Strauss Drive Townhouses and the Howard Property. The council also issued proclamations for Huntington's Disease Awareness Month and National Drinking Water Week.

Durham publishes no agenda document for this meeting. Its Granicus agenda viewer answers that the agenda is not currently published, and the item list here comes from the markers the clerk attached to the council's own video recording. No captions are on file, so what the council decided is not recorded here.

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.

The council spent two hours and forty-five minutes on a single item.

The meeting ran three hours and fifty-four minutes and the city indexed only eleven points in it. Item 16, the Strauss Drive townhouses, began at 51 minutes and lasted about seventeen. Item 15, the Howard property, began at an hour and nine minutes and the next marker is adjournment - two hours and forty-five minutes later. Whatever else the council did that night, the Howard property is what it did.

Before that: proclamations for Huntington's Disease Awareness Month and National Drinking Water Week, then 33 minutes of announcements by council and six of priority items from the city manager, attorney and clerk. There is no consent agenda in the index for this meeting.

How the votes went

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

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (11)

Procedural · 5Other · 2Proclamation or recognition · 2Public hearing · 2
  1. Call To Order
    Procedural
  2. Moment of Silent Meditation
    Other
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
    Procedural
  4. Roll Call
    Procedural
  5. Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition Health and human services
    A proclamation for Huntington's Disease Awareness Month.
  6. National Drinking Water Week Proclamation
    Proclamation or recognition Water and sewer
    A proclamation for National Drinking Water Week.
  7. Announcements by Council
    Procedural
  8. Priority Items by the City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk
    Other
  9. 16 Strauss Drive Townhouses
    Public hearing Housing and affordabilityRezoning
    A land use case for townhouses on Strauss Drive. No agenda document is published for this meeting, so the terms of the request are not on the record here.
  10. 15 Howard Property
    Public hearing Rezoning
    A land use case known as the Howard Property. No agenda document is published for this meeting, so the terms of the request are not on the record here.
  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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