In a report delivered to the Orange County Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) Tuesday night, Charlotte-based consultants Olver, Inc. said that building and operating a waste transfer station would be cheaper than paying a private company to haul the county’s trash to a landfill in another county. (The county’s municipal solid waste landfill is set […]
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Sources: DPAC facade to be converted into ‘shiny bright digital billboard’
According to Endangered Durham: Reportedly, the front of the DPAC will show ads for a variety of products, except on performance nights, when it will camouflage the front of the building with “an undiverse populace streaming in and out” to make visitors from Raleigh more comfortable in Durham. The board of Downtown Durham Disintegrated (DDD) […]
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Durham neighborhood may sell to Wal-Mart at Southpoint for $20.5M
Sarah McMillian stands in the driveway of a modest ranch-style house in Kentington Heights, a subdivision abutting the sprawling Streets at Southpoint mall. Down the block, a pile of trash gathers in a vacant lot. “It’s not that you want to be like the Joneses, but you don’t see that eyesore anywhere else that you […]
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Olver: transfer station in Orange County will cost $55M over 20 years
The Charlotte-based consultants overseeing a 16-month long site-selection process for a waste-transfer station in Orange County (see the March 11 Indy cover story, “Trash Talk”) have estimated that building and operating a station at one of two sites along N.C. Highway 54 will cost Orange County taxpayers roughly $55 million, over 20 years. Olver, Inc. […]
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SELC calls Jordan Lake boundary ‘conservative’
Citing conflicting data, the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Charlottesville, Va.-based advocacy group, has called on the Durham County Board of Commissioners to reject a developer-funded survey of Jordan Lake, and commission an independent survey of the reservoir. The group based its recommendation on data collected in 2007 for the N.C. Floodplain Mapping Program that […]
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Jordan Lake developers get friendly reception in Herald-Sun, TBJ
A UNC School of Government official has concluded that the Durham County Board of Commissioners must hold public hearings on changing the Jordan Lake watershed boundary, echoing a long-held legal opinion of the North Carolina courts. However, the Herald-Sun and the Triangle Business Journal have insisted on making the public hearing issue a debate, when […]
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More fallout from Jordan Lake survey
Since a survey of Jordan Lake commissioned by developer Neal Hunter first surfaced at a commissioners’ meeting last November (nearly three years after it was approved, without review, by former planning director Frank Duke), things have heated up slightly for Southern Durham Development. The company’s proposed “751 Assemblage” mega-development hinges on Hunter’s survey, which effectively […]
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Wal-Mart coming to Southpoint?
WRS Realty Inc., a real-estate investment company that specializes in developing Wal-Mart shopping centers, has made an offer of $20.5 million to property owners in Kentington Heights, a low-income subdivision close to the Streets at Southpoint in southwestern Durham, according to a letter obtained by the Indy. The letter, dated March 6, 2009, was sent […]
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Around the donut hole: Durham stormwater protections update
Durham is trying to close a 25-square-mile “donut hole” where no stormwater standards currently exist, by enacting a citywide stormwater standards ordinance. But state regulators worry that closing the regulatory loophole, as written, may come at the expense of existing stormwater requirements in the Neuse River Basin, which the ordinance would replace. Roughly 55 square […]
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Where should Orange County stick its garbage?
Amber Kirby, who works from home for a database marketing company, lives in the heart of dairy farmland in southwestern Orange County. She and her husband are raising their two children on their homestead, which the Kirby family has owned for generations. “One of the reasons we wanted to live back here is it’s nice […]