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<br />computer model and the model provided an estimate of what the total economic impacts
<br />would be. The total impact is actually the sum of the direct, indirect, and what is
<br />called the induced impact which is estimated at about 2 million.
<br />This would provide a total of 4.8 million dollars in economic activity ,,
<br />throughout the Orange County area. In the year 2008, assuming that the growth and
<br />activity at the airport took place in accordance with the general trend that was
<br />illustrated earlier, it's estimated that the sum of the three kinds of impact would
<br />be 5.3 million plus about 1.7, plus another 5.1, totaling 12.1 million dollars in
<br />economic impact. The original 5.3 million would be expended due to the activity of
<br />providing the aviation services at the airport and the additional 6.8 million
<br />dollars would be generated as a result of the activities that would take place
<br />elsewhere throughout the regional. economy. The activity at the airport would also
<br />result in jobs for the Orange County economic unit. About 28 jobs are estimated to
<br />occur on site if the airport were in operation this year. There would be an
<br />additional four jobs estimated to be created due to the employment of pilots and
<br />maintenance and other support people possibly not on the airport site. It is
<br />estimated that an additional 24 jobs would be created throughout the Orange County
<br />economy as a result of the activity at the airport. So the grand total of jobs then
<br />would be some 54 jobs. In 2008 the numbers are correspondingly larger due to growth
<br />totaling on the order of about 114 jobs throughout the economy.
<br />Gary Varga stated that the next phase of the presentation will deal with the
<br />issue of site selection. As he spoke about each site, it was shown on a map. The
<br />site selection poxtion of the study is going to reduce the sites from 20 to 6. This
<br />elimination is based on some broad overview of the criteria that was presented
<br />earlier. One category was social, which effects the number of people who would need
<br />to be relocated, proximity of churches, schools, compatible land use for existing
<br />land, etc. Another category was titled land, which includes the number of parcels
<br />to be acquired, the availability of the land, adequate acreage on the site and so
<br />forth, and whether or not there are obstructions in the area. The third, is
<br />engineering in very broad categories, flooding, adequate run-off, terrain, soil
<br />classifications, whether ar not the sites are heavily cleared or wooded, the
<br />relative cost of the area, that is the land values, the relocation cost, the cost of
<br />relocation of utilities, roads, and so forth, should that be necessary, the required
<br />earth-work on the given site which is a very important criteria, the cost of the
<br />clearing and the cost of exit routes. The category entitled general environmental
<br />includes water quality, history archeology, construction impacts, prime farm land,
<br />and endangered threatened species, noise impacts and so forth. These criteria have
<br />been applied to the 20 sites in an effort to get rid of the sites that obviously are
<br />not worth selecting for the airport. He started by going through the sites that
<br />have been eliminated and he gave the reason for their elimination.
<br />He gave an analysis of each of the sites, how they scored, and some individual
<br />criterias. Thi's is contained in a document in the Permanent Agenda Files in the
<br />Clerk's Office. Site #19 was eliminated. Zt borders Cedar Grove Road and Little
<br />River 'Township between Hawkins Road East and Laws Store Road. The average driving
<br />time to that site from all the users is about 41 minutes. Site 20 was eliminated.
<br />This is also Little River Township, north of N.C. 57 between Holly Ridge Road and
<br />N.C. 157. The average driving time to this site is about 39 minutes. The third
<br />site is Site #18, Cedar Grove Township, East of Walnut .Grove Church Road between
<br />Schley Road and Phelps Road, The average driving time to this site is about 32
<br />minutes. The next several sites have actually two criterias that eliminated them
<br />from consideration. One, is the location of obstructions and the other is the cost
<br />of preparing the site to accommodate the runway. The first site is Site #14. This
<br />is in Eno Township, East of Pleasant Green Road between Mi11 Raad and Ebenezer
<br />Church Road. This site has a very large hill about 3/10th of a mile north of the
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