20210224 Ver 1_Public Notice Comments_20211022

Public Notice Comment Form
ID#*
20210224
Project Name*
Westpoint
First Name
Scott
Affiliation (if applicable)
none -North Durham resident
Phone Number
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Last Name
Carpenter
Email *
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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
Hello,
The problem of NIMBYism is what is at issue here. I've lived in north Durham since 1976 as a teenager and am
also a lifelong resident of Durham, born, raised, schooled and employed there. I have bought and owned two
residences in this area now since 1992.
There are too many transplants that buy their slice of the residential pie, and then decide no one else should get
access to "their" area of the environment. Where do they think the next generation of adults is supposed to live?
Where do they think the next group of future Durham residents are supposed to go? They focus purely on the
future increase in their own property values, while piously claiming they want to protect the environment over and
over again. Funny, I never hear these environment -protecting nay -sayers volunteer to tear down their own
homes and replace them with reforestation projects. It's always "No, don't build anything new (now that I've
gotten my property piece of the pie...)."
Housing, both the cost of and the availability of, is going to be the next major problem in Durham for future
residents. Until the anti -growth naysayers acknowledge the point of where people are supposed to live in
affordable homes that don't just encourage more and more sprawl that builds and build traffic congestion, then
their position advocacy should be dismissed. This new home building project is needed in north Durham.
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