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• 16 DRAFT <br />1 spaces so people can turn their engines off and go inside. And when you're down and ~~ <br />2 you've got a couple of cars you're selling because people couldn't make their payments, <br />3 you lose a couple of parking spaces there, because you've got them in a lot with a For Sale <br />4 sign on them. You've got to look at what you're doing because we need every parking <br />5 space we can get so people can turn their engines off. But for somebody who uses it day in <br />6 and day out on this Board of Commissioners, Oakdale, in my opinion, is the way to go for <br />7 right now. It's the safest way in and the safest way out. <br />8 <br />9 Vice-Chair Schofield Commissioner Jacobs. <br />10 <br />11 Commissioner Jacobs I have questions for our Staff if we're done with the applicant. <br />12 <br />13 Jonathan Parsons If I could make this one response to Mr. Halkiotis's comments, if that's <br />14 alright? <br />15 <br />16 Vice-Chair Schofield Yes, quickly. <br />Jonathan Parsons Actually you can pull - if someone could just grab that bottom board <br />and put it back to the top? -quickly address the parking thing directly. With the plan that <br />we are proposing right now with that middle parking bay, moving a!I 'the staff parking from <br />the lower lot up into that area, we are trying to add as much parking as is possibly allowed <br />by the existing Ordinance. Albeit limitations by impervious soil, stormwater, etc., so we are <br />addressing the parking demands directly by at least getting all the staff and the one or two <br />impounded cars out of that main stay and helping clear up the circulation, as well, from the <br />entrance on 86. So, right now, there are currently some people that parallel park in that <br />driveway. By doing the plan with the parking we're showing, we're anticipating eliminating <br />all of that driveway congestion, which will also make that existing drive function much safer <br />and cleaner, as well as helping the Oakdale drive. <br />30 Vice-Chair Schofield I have one quick question for the applicants. No one's discussed, <br />-. _31 that,l've herd. about, incidents of_ traffic accidents at that 86_access. Can, anyone speak to <br />32 ~ : that?~ That may be in some of my materials, but-1 did not-`atisorb that ir~farmationyif it was. - - - - <br />33: .. _ _._ _ ._ _-. <br />34 Jonathan Parsons I spoke with Mr. Tapp, who's the Public Safety Reviewer for Orange <br />35 County. <br />36 <br />37 Vice-Chair Schofield Yes, sir. <br />38 <br />39 Jonathan Parsons He did not bring anything to our attention. He felt that the current site <br />40 plan and the new site plan both functioned, albeit not a perfect situation; there was nothing <br />4I he brought up specifically telling me that there are issues. And that's why we got their <br />42 approval straight out. He was happier to see our new traffic pattern with the four-way <br />43 access bypass lane on the far side as well. <br />44 <br />45 Vice-Chair Scofield What about your own experience? Can you speak at all to that. <br />46 <br />47 Jonathan Parsons 15 odd trips to Hillsborough. <br />48 <br />