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Please
click on the following links to read letters and commentary from
several organizations that urge Durham Public Schools to
consider
an alternative site for a high school. Also included are
editorials opposing the site for a high school as featured in
the
Durham Herald-Sun newspaper and the Bull City Rising blog.
New
Hope Creek Corridor Advisory Committee (NHCCAC)
NC
Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR)
Triangle
Land Conservancy (TLC)
Natural
Resouce Defense Council (NRDC)
A
blog post by Kaid Benfield, the director of the NRDC's
DC-based
smart growth program. This post was featured in a July 31,
2009
post on the Bull
City Rising blog. Benfield writes,
"This is a terrible site that does none of the
things we want a smart school site to do and be."
Herald-Sun editorial
The
guest columnist, Dr. Dan Richter, is professor of soils and ecology and
director of graduate studies for Duke's University Program in Ecology.
Bull City Rising
post
The post, "More Musings on Building a
Sprawl-Free Durham
High School Campus," includes commentary and digital
illustrations by Yonah
Freemark, a recent Hillside High and
Yale graduate who studies transportation policy, new urbanism and
development practices.
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Wetland
delineation flags at the edge of the Mud Creek flood zone.
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