20210224 Ver 1_Public Notice Comments_20211021 (9)

Public Notice Comment Form
ID#*
20210224
Project Name*
Westpoint
First Name
Kerstin
Affiliation (if applicable)
Durham County Landowner
Phone Number
9195309802
Version *
1
Number only.
Last Name
Nygard
Email *
knygard©nc.rr.com
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Please pick the response below that represents your stance on the above mentioned project?*
Yes - I agree with the project. No - I do not agree with he project.
Comment
The high -density development planned by developer Keith Brown along Black Meadow Ridge will negatively
impact citizens of Durham and Raleigh. Destroying the old growth riparian buffer atop Black Meadow Ridge,
grading, and paving will spill sediment into Black Meadow Branch and Warren Creek and then on into the Eno
River threatening quality of the water supply for Durham (Teer Quarry) and Raleigh (Falls Lake). The flooding
events that already happen with frequency at West Point on the Eno Park will worsen. Historic features - the
McCown -Mangum House and West Point Mill at West Point on the Eno Park, the Holman Family Cemetery (an
African -American graveyard atop Black Meadow Ridge) - all will be negatively impacted. Rare aquatic species
which once thrived in clean rivers and streams of the eastern United States are still found in the Eno because of
the superior water quality. Increased sedimentation and chemicals will threaten populations of rare mussels and
snails, the Neuse River Waterdog, and the Carolina Madtom. The current high -density proposed development is
based on an outdated, obsolete, and abandoned plan from the 1970's named Foxmoor. Apparently the current
proposed development was somehow given the go-ahead almost 50 years later riding the scrapped remnants of
the Foxmoor plan without proper submission of a Development Plan to the Durham City Council so that the
public could weigh in. Why, over 50 years later, is there no requirement to review afresh a Development Plan
which so seriously threatens our water quality, biodiversity of the Eno River, and our West Point on the Eno
Park? Why is the City of Durham taking a 1970's-style approach to this obsolete overdevelopment with lack of
concern for the Eno River and West Point on the Eno Park? Fifty years on we should all be smarter and now
know better.
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