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Commissioner Brown asked if there would be sidewalks and if the roads would be improved and Margaret Hauth said that there would not be sidewalks or improvements made to the road for anything that has already been approved. She did not know about the proposed development in that area — if they will provide sidewalks or make improvements to the road. Craig Benedict said that there are 200 plus units already built and 200 plus units in Patriots Point and another 200 or 250 units coming in for approval. In order to be able to allow growth to continue without interruption to the transportation services, we need to work with Hillsborough to determine what cross sections would be best for the development. Mark Sheridan made reference to one of the developments on Orange Grove Road and said that there was not very much required of the developer. Margaret Hauth said that the developer just did what DOT required. The Hillsborough ordinance does not require anything further. Mark Sheridan said that this illustrates that the preference of having some different controls that the Town and the County work together on would be beneficial to the citizens. He feels that the traffic improvements identified for Patriots Point look good and they spent a lot of time talking about the impacts of increased traffic. He appreciated the comments in the paper about how do you walk from the school to the apartments on Orange Grove Road. The one project was approved in accordance with the Hillsborough ordinance and did not require Town Board approval. Commissioner Halkiotis said that the issue he wants to talk about is people who are living further up at the Timbers without automobiles who are walking on the road. With the heavy vehicular traffic on that road, someone will get hurt. The County has been talking about sidewalks even in Efland and they have run into all kinds of roadblocks from DOT. He feels we need to work together in this effort and try to gain more attention and support from DOT. Ken Chavious said that he feels sidewalks should be required for certain types of developments and said that he is willing to work with Town and County officials to make sure this is included in the Hillsborough ordinance. Chair Jacobs said that the last time he met with DOT, he brought this issue up and Division Engineer Mike Mills said that it would cost one million dollars to put a pedestrian crossing over the bridge at I-40 near the high school. If you want to work with the County on the corridor, we can have a small committee come up with a recommendation. We could jointly lobby DOT. He was informed that DOT does have money for installing curb and gutter but we have to come up with a plan. Evelyn Lloyd said that the EDD work group was asked to include the entranceways in the discussions of that group but they did not have time to do that. Mark Sheridan said that he supports a small group spending some time to look at the issues associated with increased development in the Orange Grove area and the issue of safety. Each Board decided that they would each appoint two people to serve on a committee. b. Intersection of US 70/NC 57/NC 86 Craig Benedict made reference to a map and the area of US70, NC57 and NC86. He said that the level of service at these intersections is already overburdened without additional development like the Preserve. What was suggested to the Preserve developers was that NC86 be widened to the potential bypass or at least to NC57. That is a critical intersection and the delays are