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174 <br />Kimley -Horn <br />and Associates, Inc. <br />3. Bus pull -offs. Provision will be made for future bus pull -offs adjacent to <br />the access points on Lawrence Road and US 70 Business. <br />4. Subdivision streets. Subdivision streets will include sidewalks on'both <br />sides of the street, bicycle -safe drainage grates, mountable curbs, bicycle <br />pavement markings adjacent to the deceleration lanes on Lawrence Road <br />and US 70 Business. It is anticipated that all streets will be accepted by <br />NCDOT for maintenance. Any subdivision streets not accepted by NCDOT <br />and all sidewalks will be maintained through a homeowners organization. <br />5. Parking. The parking spaces for the two recreational sites will conform <br />with requirements of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations. <br />Specifically, the recreation area in the northern. portion of the subdivision <br />will have 16 parking spaces, and the recreation area in the central portion of <br />the subdivision will have 16 parking spaces. <br />This subdivision are anticipated to consist primarily of two -car households. <br />All of the driveways will be long enough to park at least two cars, and <br />many would be two cars wide. Many of the home sites would include <br />garages. Guests and some homeowners may occasionally park on <br />subdivision streets, but no parking will occur outside the subdivision. The <br />parking serving the recreation areas will serve as overflow parking for large <br />parties. The mountable curbs will allow parked vehicles to pull partly off <br />the road to provide sufficient room for moving vehicles. A survey of <br />parking in Downing Creek, a subdivision with similar density and street <br />width, indicated that few vehicles park on streets and that these do not <br />create operational or safety problems. For the 206 -lot subdivision, 15 <br />vehicles were parked on the street at 3:00 PM, including six vehicles at a <br />birthday party. A survey at 7:00 PM showed 22 vehicles'parked on the <br />street. In no case were two vehicles parked directly across the street from <br />each other. The parked vehicles did not adversely affect traffic operations <br />or. safety. <br />Copy to: <br />George Krichbaum <br />Scott Murray <br />