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So there are two parts of the study that are not really <br />measured and the particulates are really of importance to small children, the elderly, asthmatics, and <br />people with obstructive pulmonary disorders. I see some flaws in this study and I'm conflicted on this. It <br />looks to me like you have this lobby group, California Business Properties Association that is paying for this <br />study. I boked and California Business Properties Association are advocates for shopping centers and real <br />estates firms. I'm not sure where I am on this whole thing but I just wanted to point some problems with that <br />study. <br />Jeff Schmitt: In the midst of the discussion, I would Pike to resurrect option one, (do nothing) handicapped <br />people today this is going to create a significant issue for them when they go to use a drive-in facility. <br />Parents with children who could previously go thru a facility with their children in the car safely in their seats <br />now will have to park the car get the kids out of the car and cross the lot, I could go on with issues like this. <br />I'm not sure that we have enough of this in the County that it creates that big of an environmental issue and <br />think this is somewhat of over reaction on the part of the Commissioners in bringing this forward. From my <br />perspective the questions and how we look at this, I'd like to have that in a context to think about it. <br />(Document "The Idle Free School Zone Projecf - 2006-2007" was passed out by staff from Planning Board <br />Member Mary Bobbin-Cooke.J <br />Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: If you remember at the Quarterly Hearing, I talked about what Forsyth County had <br />done in terms of really kinking at places where there were a lot of particulates and bad air around children. <br />They have initiated an idle free school zone project. Basically, it's an education project which is always a <br />good way to reach out first before you start doing a lot of regulation. It educates the parents to turn the car <br />off while they're waiting for their children to come out from school or when they are going to drop off. It has <br />posters they send around and it helps parents transfer the behavior to other situations where if you're idling <br />more than a minute you shut your car off and they understand how it affects children's asthma as well as <br />the whole concept of air. I live close to Grady Brown and the High School and that's build right next to a <br />highway. I think the parents in the grade schools in Orange County would be willing to listen to this. What. <br />they did in Forsyth County was there is no policy, they negotiated with the principal and the school staff to <br />put this in order.. They have a Triad air awareness.and emergency management program; all these groups <br />came together and worked with the schools to put this into place. It has been adopted by all the grade <br />schools and now they are moving into the middle schools. This is something we might want to ask the <br />County Commissioners to do first. The second thing in Forsyth County was the county employees have <br />been asked to turn their cars off. This is to model the kind of behavior they want all the residents in the <br />County to follow. I am thinking I would like to add to JefPs~ proposal to resurrect option one, do nothing in <br />terms of regulation but let's start working in the areas where our children are and two see if the County <br />Manager would be willing to talk with the Forsyth County manager about this regulation and was it difficult <br />to put in place. Maybe staff here might want to react to that, do you have one in place? <br />Michael Harvey: We don't have one in place; I think the one in Forsyth GoUnty is a policy and a <br />suggestion. It is unenforceable which is why it's not a regulation so we need to be careful with how we do <br />that. <br />Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: In terms of doing number one, do nothing in terms of regulation, I'm suggesting that <br />we say, let's do no regulation but let's consider some education and outreach where we can have behavior <br />modeled by county employees as well as really target where our children are which is a big concern. I think <br />2 <br />