Shootin' the bull

Thanks to Don Moffitt of the Durham City/County Planning Commission, and City Councilperson Eugene Brown for taking the time to appear with Kevin and i on the inaugural edition of Shooting the Bull, our new Sunday night talk show on WXDU, 88.7 FM. We talked about the recent proposals to "streamline" the development review process, and i hope the conversation was enlightening for our listeners. We should have a podcast available shortly. I thought Eugene was especially interesting when he discussed his thoughts that this streamlining should be directed at projects that the city itself is engaged in building first and foremost, and cited several municipal projects that required site plan reviews, for example, for relatively minor changes like adding wheelchair ramps.

Don Moffitt and Eugene Brown at WXDU

The half hour went by really quickly, from my perspective behind the mike, so hopefully we'll get a chance to revisit the issue in the not too distant future and fill in any gaps that we left open.

It was a bit weird having so many people in the studio (we had a live engineer working the board in addition to the 4 of us) and logistically, not being able to look at the folks we were questioning taxed my cognitive abilities. But i expect we'll learn from our missteps and improve in the fullness of time.

Thanks for all of your emails of support after the show. Reminder - if you've got a suggestion for a topic, a question you'd like to ask our guests (we should announce by Thursday of each week who we'll be talking to), or a scoop about goings-on in the Bull City, drop us a line at ShootingTheBull@gmail.com.

UPDATE: Kevin's got the podcast up on his blog. I'll try to get a link up in the sidebar this afternoon or evening.