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Posted: November 25, 2009

Durham charter school applies for permits to demolish homes

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Durham, N.C. — A Durham charter school has completed the application process for permits to knock down two homes in the city's Morehead Hills neighborhood. City leaders said demolition of the properties, at 804 and 806 Jackson St., could begin when the permits are issued – as soon as next week.

Healthy Start Academy, at 807 West Chapel Hill St., has been at odds with Preservation Durham over the plan.

Liz Morey, executive director of Healthy Start Academy, said the academy’s 330 students need more space to play outside and that the homes, which are in an historic neighborhood, are not themselves historic properties.

Preservation Durham wants the homes saved.

"To demolish and destroy those two houses would be like knocking out your front two teeth, on that very block,” Durham Councilman Eugene Brown said.

Brown said the city is working to revitalize Morehead Hills.

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If the houses were upkept and good condition, I would totally understand preserving them. But right now the only thing they are good for is termites, roaches and rats and of course drug dealers. Tear them down and put them to good use.
Kelondris
November 25, 2009 2:58 p.m.
Enough of Durham's older homes have been destroyed already, so there are no longer "plenty of old houses around". And as far as "improving our education standards in this state", I'm not sure how building a playground is going to do that, especially for a charter school that's apparently doing a marginal job educating its students, based on its EOG results.

As ncwebguy said, they should have considered the space issue when they located the school there in the first place.
Click to view my profile lb27608
November 25, 2009 2:35 p.m.
The hysterical society is responsible for quite a few dilapidated run down houses not being torn down.Their historic seems to be the neighborhoods run down drug dealer and hooker infested shacks.
dragonslayer
November 25, 2009 1:36 p.m.
Knock em down! How many derelict properties does Durham have to harbor drugs and criminal activity? MANY! A school using the property is better than these houses that no one is going to buy and renovate.. (we are in a recession remember, it ain't going to be over anytime soon folks!) This is Durham for ya.. Dirty "D" if ya didn't know and lives up to its name.. I grew up in Durham.... This is the very reason I do not live there any longer...
Click to view my profile NCTrue
November 25, 2009 1:28 p.m.
You go Liz!
christinebbd
November 25, 2009 1:09 p.m.
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