The field of candidates will be narrowed in the election tomorrow and the final vote will be in November. Cora Cole-McFadden and Howard Clement are facing several challengers for their seats. I'm leaning toward voting for the incumbents, unless any of the challengers are willing to outflank them on the left. One thing to pay attention to is a candidate's position on the Jordan Lake issue, which is currently only a County issue, but could involve the City Council soon. The Herald-Sun asked each of the candidates about this two or three weeks ago.
The current City Council can be witnessed in action tonight at their regular meeting (see www.durhamnc.gov/agendas) and next Monday is the pivotal County Commission vote on the Jordan Lake boundary, and it sounds like Brenda Howerton plans to vote with Page and Bowser to accept Hunter's survey. After all, she sided with them on firing the County Attorney, after he said the County had to go through proper procedures before it could move the boundary, resulting in a dubious lawsuit by 751 South's law firm, which employs former Commissioner Lewis Cheek. As a result 751 South will go ahead with higher density development, though there will still be opportunities to contest the site plan and ask that streams have wooded buffers, limit mass grading, etc.
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