Durham’s Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Durham Guide for a Safer Community -- Task Force Makes Recommendations to City and County

A new guide showing how Durham residents, businesses, faith communities, and neighborhoods can employ design and space-use techniques to create a safer, more livable community is available from Durham´s Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Private Sector Task Force. The private sector task force includes representatives of the convention and visitors bureau, chamber, downtown development, design community, homebuilders community, development community, and businesses against crime.

The CPTED task force has adapted the new Durham manual from those used in other communities and set forth a series of recommendations that will be presented to the City Council, Board of County Commissioners, and neighborhood associations.

The CPTED Task Force began meeting in late 2000 under the leadership of Commissioner Ellen Reckhow and City Council member Howard Clement, with DCVB president Reyn Bowman chairing its private sector subgroup and County General Services director Mike Turner chairing its public sector subgroup.

Documents (in Acrobat PDF format):

CPTED Guide | Task Force | Recommendations (PDF, Word) | Broken Windows | Gasoline Drive Offs (PDF, Word) | CPTED and Schools | Benefit-Cost Analysis and Crime Prevention

Article courtesy Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau.