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~~u z Walker noted it would still be considered a stable flow and Coutu responded yes. Same of the things they look at in terms of flow adjustment would be eliminating a left turn lane and lowering speed limits to accommodate capacity. harshall noted the traffic is at capacity already and that she, too, felt the burden should be on the developer to tell what uses Would be theca --- and how to manage the traffic increase. Kizer noted that with five acres of the Paliouras property already in use, the traffic contribution had been overestimated by 1/3. t~illhoit responded that the level of service was determined in 19x3 and it was not clear as to ..whether or not the truck stop was operating at the time these levels were determined. Walker asked if this meant we were going to gear our growth to road capacity. Willhoit responded it was inappropriate to give carte blanche approval of projects without this type of information. walker inquired what the penalty would be if the developer gave this information and it resulted in greater traffic generation than he had said it would. Whitted responded that the way to handle this was a Special Use Permit or planned development. This would show the specific use. • Walker felt it was unnecessary for the developer to provide the information. _.. Willhoit then reviewed a planned development versus a straight rezoning approach. He felt the Planning Board should specifically look at proposals to deterriine which approach is more appropziate. He continued that there _. were apparent concerns here given that this is one of Hillsborough's entranceways in a critical area, as opposed to an undeveloped area where a straight rezoning request could be received. He suggested that the Planning Board develop the criteria under which a Planned Development/Special Use Permit should be required, so that developers would know what to expect. James Rae Freeland, developer, stated that most industries do not v~ant to talk to developers until they have zoning. He noted further that he did not really understand the process or time frame. He felt this property was ideally located for industrial and commercial development. Marshall noted that the Land Use Plan clearly states what we expect to do on this property. She was concerned that there must be a means to be sure we are not creating problems. Freeland noted that he did not know what was going to be there yet so how could he do planned development. Whitted agreed with Marshall that the Land Use Plan did designate this area as an industrial node but traffic was a big concern. A great concern was the truck traffic. The County would be foolish to consider burdening this area with mare traffic until the road can be improved or we could know that industry would be going in that would generate little or no traffic at all. Marshall asked the developer to come in with a planned development showing how the traffic will be managed and how it will be laid out so it can be seen that something is not being created that simply will not work. Whitted inquried how this development could co-exist with access across from the truck stop.