Codes For Affordable Development News Today

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The closely divided vote on the rules known as SCAD — Simplifying Codes for Affordable Development — came at nearly midnight in City Hall.

“I don’t understand what the ‘task’ is of the force,” said Mayor Pro Tem Mark-Anthony Middleton, one of the council members who questioned the mayor’s plan.

Records show how a Durham builder proposed the SCAD text amendment, raised money to finance its drafting and application fee, and slapped on the name of a nationally beloved nonprofit as cosponsor without their consent.