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Earl McKee: My comment about tabling this issue is that I really don't see the advantage of tabling this issue. This is the option we are 1 9 presented with. Staff comments that it does meet the requirements. In order to get if officially on the table, I am going to make a motion to accept.... Brian Crawford: Can we hold off until we get comments from all of the Planning Board members, if you wouldn't mind. Earl McKee: I have no problem with that. Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: My questions goes back to what staff was saying about putting a dedicated stub in there because in 20 years or 40 years, development and people may said there's a good reason fo have something there but it would be too late to come back to tonight. Help me understand what that would like so that if do recommend this and ask for that stub out I would like the developer to respond to that. The corner lot, number 1, in the first plan..... Robert Davis: Option 3 is basically Option 1 without the Booth Road connection and a different orientation on the road. We considered it when we looked at Option 1. Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Lot number 1 would Zook like that? I wanted to know when you said stub out, what did it look like? Robert Davis: You actually do have stub out all through here. You can do something in a few different places. Mary Bobbitt-Cooke: Where do you recommend that it be? Robert Davis: Line up where it actually hits the other one. Brian Crawford: Any other comments. Larry Wright: I would like to follow up on the stub out. If this community is approved and it is built, I think a stub out to Booth Road not necessarily for vehicle traffic but for bicycle and walkway, etc. would be something the two communities may want to engage upon. I think that between lots 1 and 2 would be a logical place for the stub out. Not necessarily for vehicle traffic. I have another Issue that in this subdivision regulation, they talk about sidewalks. One of the things we heard were comments that the roads were dangerous and there is no place to walk but in the road. What are we recommending for sidewalks in this community? Robert Davis: There are no sidewalk recommendations. There are private recreation requirements of potential trails. Larry Wright: In here it talks about accommodations for bicycle sidewalks, etc. Robert Davis: Do you remember Efland Commons where the recommendation came back that residential streets served as a bike type of situation because of the low level of traffic. What we don't have is a trail. We generally look at that at the preliminary and we don't get into the layout of the recreation at concept but there is on this plan a connection to allow you to walk on the road and down through here and this area. Larry Wright: I agree with Mark's comment. I am hesitant to see anything Tike this go across to a critical area to Universality Lake that is so critical to Chapel Hill as a water supply and even if you do have some sort of bridge, we had another economic plan that had a 100 year floodplain and all this winter it was flooded and it was Flooded last year. I feel this access point up here is not environmentally sound; people are going to race up there. There is nothing that controls the speed of these cars and then they up into, is Damascus Church Road a collector road? Robert Davis: That or a major local. Larry Wright: I don't really know where people's residences are there right next to this road. The Lewis family is in opposition and I feel they have justifiable concerns. Robert Davis: This is looking back to the northeast on Damascus Church Road, this is looking southwest on Damascus Church Road. There are four driveways within 200 feet. Larry Wright: If we have three motorcycles in this community at the end of that and they go there all hours of the night, how close will that be to somebody's bedroom. Robert Davis: It is no closer than they are right now to the highway. Larry Wright: I am talking about the adjacent lots where this road comes out right next to private property. It is a long thin road with a lot to the left. Is there a dwelling on that?