Remarks by Leonardo Williams
124 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Thank you. And following Pablo Friedman, I have Andy Lowe and Chris .”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right, thank you so much. Colleagues, you wanna go right into questioning or you wanna take a quick break? As we can get out of here, we just go straight through. It's up to you guys. All right. Those are all the speakers I have. Thank you for your response. At this time, I'm going to declare the public hearing closed and back before the council. All right. Council Member Rivers.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Sometimes this feels really performative. We can win tonight. You know, what is this, October 5th. We can win tonight and we get all of these things. And then I think about the neighbor who's gonna move in there. And when they get hit upside the head, it's like, what the heck just happened? Why is it so expensive here? I am trying to get what we can out of you guys, because this is, I mean, the way we're set up, that's where it is. We're gonna squeeze as much as we can. Sure. While also not overburdening the person or people or the families that are gonna move there. because that's going to…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“And again, I want to add, I think that's a great question. And I wish we would spend more of our time talking about these types of policies because this is what folks are really asking for. I think Go Triangle could be a really good venue for this conversation as well as we are trying to have some of those fixed routes. The RDX that goes from downtown Durham to downtown Raleigh back and forth throughout the day, at one point it didn't exist, but now it does. And it is a really good resource. And We don't have to exhaust our resources here with our bus system, our transit system, considering…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“No, I said that some of this feels performative on council.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Meaning we're asking for this and at the end of the day, it's going to shift over to someone else. I'm not addressing anyone's personality or anyone's behavior.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“ANY OTHER COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR A RICH DEBATE AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Second. Moved and properly seconded. Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Please close to vote.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. And I'll also entertain a motion to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance by taking property out of commercial neighborhood. Residential rule, residential suburban 20 Falls Jordan Watershed Overlay District B County jurisdiction and establishing the same as planned development residential 18.410 Falls Jordan Watershed Overlay District B City jurisdiction. So moved. Second. Move the property seconded. Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Please close the vote.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. And lastly, I'll entertain a motion to adopt the consistency statement as required by North Carolina General Statute Section 160D-605. So moved. Second. Move the property seconded. Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Please close the vote.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you all. That's all of tonight's business. We're adjourned.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Welcome everyone, welcome to Durham City Hall. I hope everyone is well and staying healthy. And not getting sick and having to recover like I have been the last couple of days. The weather change has been interesting, but I am so glad that fall is here. So glad, summer was brutal. But welcome, meeting is called to order. And let's see if I can, pardon me one moment. Can I see that real quick? Here's your order. All right, Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. All right, council, are there any announcements? I'll start on my left.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you all so much. It's great to be with you all. Spent the week after some panels on small business and just local economies across the country, spent some time in D.C. talking about that. Also represented Durham with mayors of Philadelphia, Austin, Texas. in Kansas City as a keynote panelist at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Folks are really interested in what we're doing here in Durham. You probably have seen many of the accolades come across social media. Folks are paying attention and they wanna know how is Durham doing this? And I really accredit folks that are…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Madam Clerk? You need this, don't you?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“All right. At this time, I'll go ahead and do the public comment period, and then I'll go into the consent agenda. First speaker I have is Karen Boswell, which is virtual. Can you hear me, Karen Boswell? Do you see her online? Okay. I'm in.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Hi there. Welcome. You have three minutes.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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City Council · Sep 24, 2026