AIA Triangle Annual Membership Meeting and Celebration

ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED

November 14, 2019 | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Counter Culture Coffee Roastery & Headquarters

812 Mallard Avenue | Durham, NC 27701

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

AIA Members: $0 | Students: $0 | Non Members & Guests: $35

AIA Triangle Annual Partners (Sponsors): $0 (Platinum 6 reps | Gold 4 reps | Silver 2 reps | Bronze 1 rep)

This year’s membership meeting includes a presentation on Durham’s strategic approach to urban development, which has been making headlines recently. Our speaker Patrick Young, Director, Durham City-County Planning Department, will speak about Durham’s initiatives, including the Expanding Housing Choices (EHC) ordinance, which is intended to create additional housing opportunities in the highest demand neighborhoods in Durham, while preserving the character and quality of these neighborhoods.

• 4:00 pm – Tour of Counter Culture Roastery & Headquarters (1 AIA CE Credit)
• 5:00 pm – Presentation & Annual Membership Meeting (1 AIA CE Credit)
• 6:00 pm – Celebration and Reception

Engage Durham: Strategic Approaches to Urban Development

Join us at 5:00 pm for the annual membership meeting including a presentation by Patrick Young, AICP, Director, Durham City-County Planning Department. Durham has been making headlines with its strategic approach to urban development. Attend Mr. Young’s presentation to learn more about Durham’s initiatives such as the Expanding Housing Choices (EHC) ordinance.

What is EHC? EHC is intended to create additional housing opportunities in the highest demand neighborhoods in Durham, while preserving the character and quality of these neighborhoods. This should help stabilize housing prices and allow for greater housing access in high-opportunity neighborhoods.

Patrick O. Young, AICP

Director, Durham City-County Planning Department

Patrick Young is the Director of the Durham City/County Planning Department since April of 2017.  Mr. Young has worked as a professional urban planner for over 25 years, the last 20 in North Carolina. Prior to his appointment as Director, Mr. Young was Assistant Director for Development with the Durham City/County Planning Department since 2008, and led the efforts to implement the new Durham City-County Development Services Center, which opened in April of 2017

Before coming to Durham, Mr. Young was Director of Planning and Inspections for Franklin County, North Carolina and was Senior Planner and Project Manager for Holland Consulting Planners of Wilmington. Mr. Young received his master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and is a member of the Triangle Council of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Tour Counter Coffee Training Center Roastery & Headquarters

Join us at 4:00 pm to tour the project and learn how Counter Culture Coffee committed to the re-development of downtown by revitalizing an old grain mill and processing warehouse in the east Durham into its east coast Roastery, world Headquarters, and hands-on Training Center. The linear pre-fabricated warehouse and its adjacent masonry structure were transformed into a state-of-the-art facility for roasting coffee, staff offices and an educational space for the training of local baristas and coffee professionals.