Durham's Proactive Rental Inspection Program won the City Council's approval by a 5-1 vote tonight, with Councilman Eugene Brown in the minority.

Brown preferred deferring approval until an ad hoc committee finishes revisions to the city's Minimum Housing Code, which the PRIP is meant to enforce.

"It would be better in my opinion to have this come back to us in 60 days as a package," Brown said.

City Manager Tom Bonfield, though, said approving the PRIP and revising the code are "two related but distinctly different actions."