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has filed a lawsuit against Durham County to force the countg to recognize watershed boundaries that were on county maps betweenn 2006and 2008. The company, which paid $18 milliojn for the land, wants to develop the properthy located westof N.C. 751, near wherew it intersects withFayetteville Road. In the suit fileds Wednesday in Durham the company asks a judge to declare the watershed boundaries approved in 2006 by formerDurhakm City-County Planning Director Franmk Duke to be valic and for the countg to pay damages to Southern Durha m Development in excess of $10,000.
Accordingv to the suit, the land’s previous owner, CREE) founder Neal Hunter, paid for a survey of the properthy that showed the property was outsided the watershed boundaries to Jordan Asa result, Duke adjuste d the county’s maps. Base on that determination, the lawsuit says, Southernm Durham Development purchased the property with the intention ofspending $500 million to develop as many as 1,300 residential units, 600,000 square feet of retail and office space, plus an elementaryu school, a middle school, a sheriff’s substatiohn and a fire station.
But some city and county officiald started questioning the validity of the survey and the watershecboundary lines, despite a review of the boundaries by the Nortbh Carolina Division of Water Quality that backed Duke’s decision. Earlie this year, the Durham Countt Board of the Commissioners voted to invalidate the boundary changee approved in 2006 and to begin a formalrezoninvg process. That process, according to the has stalled development and cost the company To download a PDF ofthe complaint, .
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