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25ml 11 iptunr Jkm - WW W Gary,; Ij or Area -' ,. : ' J -satu.-.:ay, iKi-ns cxsctcj tjs-ii HJnudleir ClomsMeiratikE .' ' , . , . (Continued from Front ) .7---. resident's rnust "overcome differences, accept the pommonalities and put i, together a representative group of peo-' , pie to work with the city planners. ' From the planners' point of view,!, working with the people means going out to the areas, gathering a team of, ,, residents and through a series of com-; munity meetings thrash out an identity' of the major issues affecting this area , and its future. ') The planners than ;. translate these issues into planning pro jects, drawing them on maps and ex v plaining to the citizens how the plan1 ners yiew the issues in terms ot their impact on the neighborhood and their ' priority.- i - With more meetings, the issues get ; thrashed out again. The planners'; viewpoints can be challenged. The goal is a concensus, both as to the issues', impact and their priority. Once the " concensus is reached, it's put into a, plan and presented to the council. . - Then . the people, working v with . elected of ficials," must decide which projects should be paid for firsthand determine where the money should come from. .A point worth making is 'i that there will probably not be much federal money to pay for Durham's -' plans. Durham's future is going to ' have to come out of Durham pockets. . "Using this approach," Norby said, "it will take us about five years to ' cover all the neighborhood planning areas and develop a presentable plan ; for each one." "v , There are three planners assigned to! the neighborhood planning project,. and their, goal is- to do four? neighborhood plans each year. TheoreticallyV- this, process makes! " sense; particularly when you add the F .citywide planning approach, the plan-;, ' 'tiers take a broad, overview look at the .city, plugging two other vital :com- ponents into V, the 'C, neighborhood , scheme. These are the local economy and the citywide infrastructure. " The basic thesis, for an economic; development strategy for Durham is ". h . . .to improve the standard of living of its citizens by encouraging increased private sector investment and activity (. in the local ..economy,"., As a practical matter that means attracting goods and services that meet both the consumer .' . needs of people living here and pro-' videsjobs, - ,' The citywide infrastructure is that ; network of streets, highways and other urban level services that are needed to support both ) economic, development j and residential livability. . .. . But while'the theory is sound, an ex ample of state-of-the-art urban plann ing, logistically, this process could pro-' , duce major headaches. The biggest headache is Durham's: history. , Durham wasn't planned, to say the! least. It sort of sprung up along the! railroad tracks during the mid-1800's.j During the 1880's, the tobacco and tex-; tile industries became the little town's -economic anchors, and for the next fif-i " ty years or so, these industries almost totally determined Durham's shape John Hope Franklin to Speak at Friends of Librarv Dinner CHAPEL HILL -Dr. John Hope Franklin,, nationally recognized authority on black and southern history, will be the featured speaker at the annual dinner meeting of the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday, April 6, at the Carolina Inn. Franklin will speak on "Politics and the Public Library: A Personal View". ' The dinner will ' celebrate the 50th an niversary of the Friends of the Library. The group has made many in valuable contributions of jbooks, papers and finan cial,' assistance :JP j WC library and its special collections . since it was begun by Louis Round Wilson in 1932. Franklin" is John Mat thews Manly Distinguished Service professor and former Chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago, currently on leave as Senior Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center. When he com pletes that fellowship, he will become James B. Dyke professor of history at Duke Universi ty. ...3 ' He also has taught at Fisk University, Howard University, North DR. FRANKLIN Legal Notice Carolina Central Univer- sity , and -,: Saint" I Aug.usinejs 4Mmm:A ',, oiFrankbn has? written-a number of books in cluding The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860; From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans; The Militant South, 18001860; Reconstruct Hon After the Civil War; and A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North. He is working on a biography of George Washington Williams, a 19th century historian. He has been active in numerous professional and ; educational organizations and has been president of the American ' Historical Association and several others. He has been widely j honored for his work, k receiving honorary degrees from a large number of colleges and universities. He - is a member of the NORTH CAROLINA DURHAM COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE HAVING QUALIFIED as the Ad- ninietmtnr PTA nf tha Fctaia nl Mollis H. Lee. late of Ourham Oklahoma Hall of Fame, County. North Carolina, the under- and in 1978, he was one signed does hereby notify ail par- 0f ejgnt Americans cited S J r r HI rr riw Ing claims against the Estate of in Mollie H. Lee to oresent them to America ror significant the undersigned within six months contributions to society. ' iwm th date pt the first pubiica- The Friends of the , tidrt of this not ce. or same wilt be ;hr.ril ,l . pleaded in bar of their recovery. Library.sponsors the an - All persons indebted to said 'nual dinner to honor in Estate will please make immediate di viduals who have made . , payment to the undersized at the signjficant contributions : oiven below. This the 24th day of February. 1982. James S.Lee Jr. Administrator CTA Estate of Mollie H. Lee. Deceased 130 Nelson Street Durham. NC 27707 PUBLICATION DATES: The Carolina Times . , March 13. 20. 27: ' April 3. 1982 ' ing them as life members of the group. ' " " The dinner will begin SuhsaiH'To Tin- Carolina Times ,' CutlToduv ADJACENT TO RTP 3 mins. RTP 7 mins. Durham- 12 mins .'Duke Century Oaks Apartments IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY z. 3 Bedrooms Fireplaces le Tawnheusei Energv Efficient Features Up to 2 Baths ; Jocalno. Trail 10 Apt. Oeslgned tor Draperies WasherDryer Connections Pool A Club House Private PatioBalcony Tot Lots Indoor Handball Racquet ban Facilities the Handicapped Mcdcl Open Daily Monday-Friday 3-8 Saturday 12-4 6 with a social hour at 6 p.m. Cost for the social . and dinner is $10 per per son. The event is dpen to the public, although ad-: vance reservations are re-1 quired. j For more information ; or to make a reservation, ; contact the Friends of . the Library, Wilson Library 024A, UNC ,CH, Chapel Hill NC 27514, telephone 962-1301. A- . ,: and structure. ' - . , ' ' . Fledgling . city planning came to; . " Durham in 1927 with the appointment: 1 of the City Planning Commission. The ' commission hired a New York planner, 1 . Herbert Swan, to study Durham and r help its leaders plan for the city's . growth.; Swan's rep6rtV'Thei Durham Plan," was published in 1927. Though s Swan's plan dealt njostly with streets ' and traffic, parks arid schools, a key statement in his report proved pro phetic. Swan warned that zoning is an , ineffective tool for shaping a well plan- -, ,ned city unless if is based on a com prehensive plan for land development. Apparently no one took Swan's obser . vation seriously,' and ihe tragic lesson of Durham's history is sufficiently . covered - in -the introduction of ' Durham's very first effort at com prehensive city planning, adopted in -, 1960. ''Durham adopted its first zon ing ordinance, in ,1925. Subdivision' control was belatedly extended one ' mile beyond the city limits in 1949. In . . 1946, Durham established the first municipal planning department in the state of North Carolina. On the basis of studies prepared by the Planning ' Department, the city adopted a regional thoroughfare plan in 1946 and a revised zoning ordinance in 195 1, ; A period of economic deceleration v between 1945 and 1957 prompted renewed vigor in directing the future development of the City. Durham found that it was not keeping pace with , the State of North Carolina in in dustrial development. It was losing many of its wholesaling activities to other cities and retail sales were declin-; ing. The City was designated by the! U.S. Department of Labor as an area of chronic unemployment. Factors -'suggested as contributing causes of the. economic decline have been a lack of community spirit, a lack of dynamic and imaginative leadership, the poor physical organization of the city , and a general unsightly appearance." There's strong indication that most of these negative factors that warped Durham's history continue to plague 1 the city today and could seriously cur tail the city's future unless Durhamites overcome them. Durham's sad and seething racial climate is certainly not the least of these problems. Much of today's ten sion and distrust between blacks and whites here grew out of Durham's first leffort to comprehensively plan its .future. V :1 " In 1960, the Durham City Council adopted a 20-year-Master Land Use Plan that was supposed to have guided - Durham's emergence as the center of a major ; Piedmont ' megalopolis. The plan's goals were ambitious to say the leasts It said, for example: "Durham must be considered as a part of the ur ban complex which also includes " Raleigh and Chapel Hilb The recently ( .formed Research Triangle has provid ed the impetus for growth which is ex-' pected to weld the three cities together into a single metropolitan area. The development of southern Durham County, which appears to be the con troid (heart) of the evolving metropolitan complex, is considered 1 not only in relation to Durham,, but to the entire Research Triangle region." i Needless to say, almost none of what the 1960 plan projected happened. Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill are , 'not welded. Southern Durham is not the heart of anything, and as a matter of fact, Durham has attracted only a small percentage of the growth sparked by the Research Triangle Park. The 1960 Plan's twenty years ended in 1980, and since that time, according to Norby, his department Has been gathering information, .'.and data, analyzing issues and trying to build a planning capacity into the local government structure. . . "We're faced with ten to twenty years of catching up to do just to build a planning capacity," Norby said. "That's what we're doing now." The planning capacity deficiency was created mostly because no one up dated Durham's twenty-year plan, and therefore many new issues and other factors were lajrgely ignored. ! But in the process of trying to pull this plan off, Durham's leaders planted seeds of racial discord that continue to produce an annual crop of distrust and misunderstanding. The 1960 Plan had six major features. Two of them were urban ' renewal and the East-West Ex pressway. And good intentions, not withstanding, urban renewal and the ' expressway killed the local black com-; munity's economic base and left a festering wound that has yet to heal. "I think that back then," Ickes said, "everyone thought that urban renewal would be a good thing. But now we , !know k wasn't. V Social and racial barriers aside, ' Durham is sot physically an easy city .10 plan. Physical barriers include I-S5 . ; that separates much of the northern section from the rest of the city, rnak- ing it hard for the two segments to establish an affinity; acres of vacant' . land, such as that to the south between, . the city and the Research Triangle .. Park, and the . vast Duke University acreage; which contributes, alsd to a physical splitting of the city.' In other ' words, Durham is so physically decen- - tralized, with no real central hub that ties the .various parts together, that comprehensive planning fades a. real uphill struggle. - Local v planners hope their neighborhood planning' process will be the cornerstone of a citywide welding . process, 'v; ,v. .' "If people who want to live in the ci ty can find livable neighborhoods that . are compatible to their needs, maybe they will work together to overcome some of the other barriers," Norby said. "But each neighborhood needs an organized vehicle that ties it into the ' planning process." !; . And so it all comes back to you tl Durham's people. Durham's past 'mistakes and its physical barriers can-; not be overtcome, and its exciting , possibilities cannot be achieved unless everyone here gets involved in the plan ning process, right now. Norby summed it up this way: "There is a risk that we take with this ' planning process and that is the chance the neighborhood organizations will become too powerful, and major citywide concerns will fall -prey to. neighborhood issues. But the alter native to taking that risk is to do nothing. I think the two-approach pro cess is healthy because they sort of act as a check and balance against each other. When the citywide approach identifies implications.an issue has for the entire city, the impact of those im-:: plications can be checked against neighborhood concerns and vice 'versa." And so, Durham is planning again. Two previous efforts failed miserably. And now whether Durham fans the - breeze in a gigantic urban strikeout, or connects solidly for a long range hit depends almost completely on how ef-' 1 fectively citizens help to swing the planning bat. WAW7d SoWIc o . nlSears fi rilKr I (sftoQB . SAVE J60, 52-in. 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