Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield and State Parks Director Lewis Ledford held their first formal meeting Tuesday on the future of Durham's West Point on the Eno Park.

"The meeting was very informative and positive," Ledford wrote in an email to the News & Observer, but the parties came to no conclusions.

The Durham Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to give negotiators 90 more days to work on conserving 60 wooded acres adjoining West Point Park.

Commissioners were scheduled to hear the City of Durham's request to downzone the acreage and change its land-use designation.

The Friends of West Point Park have asked for a 90-day delay on the Durham Planning Commission's hearing about a 60-acre tract adjoining West Point on the Eno Park.

Changes of the tract's zoning and land-use designation are on the commission's agenda at tonight's meeting, 5:30 at City Hall.

Friends of West Point president Janet Warner wrote the planning commissioners asking for the delay to allow negotiation on the land's conservation to proceed "without the legal pressure and complications of zoning actions and decisions."