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County Council, New Castle County · District 2

Dee Durham

Candidate for County Council, New Castle County, District 2

DemocraticIncumbent

Background

Occupation
New Castle County Council member (District 2)
Campaign website
friendsfordeedurham.us

Elected to the New Castle County Council in 2018 to represent District 2. She was executive director of Preservation Delaware and of S.A.V.E., a Chester County, Pa., land-use and conservation group, and program director of Common Cause Delaware (2012–2015); she co-founded and chairs Plastic Free Delaware.

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Documented positions

Taxes & budget

  • Supports annual budget funding for open space, farmland preservation

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “annual funding in the budget for both open space and farmland preservation”
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Public safety

  • Supports emergency services and storm resiliency efforts

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “Support our emergency services departments, and proactively pursue initiatives that will enhance resiliency due to increased frequency and severity of storms”
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Roads & infrastructure

  • Co-sponsored the county's first data center zoning rules

    Ordinance 25-101; David Carter was the prime sponsor.

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “Co-sponsor of Ordinance 25-101, the first comprehensive zoning regulations for data centers, with prime sponsor David Carter”
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Environment & parks

  • Supports more funding to conserve natural lands and farms

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “Pursue greater funding and incentives for conserving New Castle County's natural lands and farms.”
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  • Sponsored law requiring new homes be EV-charger capable

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “Durham's Ordinance Now Requires New NCC Homes to be EV-Charger Capable”
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Government & transparency

  • Led overhaul of the county's historic preservation code

    Policy — Friends for Dee Durham

    Campaign website · Friends for Dee Durham · friendsfordeedurham.us

    “Durham Spearheads Comprehensive Historic Preservation NCC Code Revisions (Ord #20-071)”
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