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recommendation back to the BOCC. We would take it to the Planning Board the first week in <br />January, and then get it will back to the County Commissioners in January or early February. That <br />is our recommendation. <br />Hunter Schofield: Very good. Ok, let's move forward. If we could hear from the applicants. <br />Please make sure you've been sworn in and please state your name as you come forward. I have <br />a list of speakers here, but I'm not sure if they overlap with the applicants. I've got a Jonathan <br />Parsans. Is that one of the applicants? Jonathan, please come forward. Welcome. <br />Statements in support of the proposal: <br />Jonathan Parsans: I appreciate your time this evening to go over this project and basically just to <br />sum up what Mr. Davis has already spoken to you about. We are an existing bank site or credit <br />union site. And, we're, quite literally, trying to do this improvement to better serve our current <br />customer base that is slightly expanding, but we're just mainly out to give our clients the best <br />possible facility they can have. As it was stated, we are trying to minimize any impact to the <br />existing site. We're helping to preserve those really large cedars and the hemlocks and the <br />grasses. And, in fact, we're actually incorporating similar materials into all the expansion area to <br />help make it a nice uniform, very visually-pleasing appearance from the intersection, so when <br />you're coming by you see one homogenous appearance. And, if you ga back to the landscape <br />plan, you would see it in the section showing a very similar character. <br />With that, we have talked at length with the Planning Department and have agreed with almost all of <br />the findings. And we've talked with NCDOT and have gotten their input on this. We would like to <br />move forward with the site plan with the exception of - we will accept their condition of removing the <br />second proposed driveway. But, pending a presentation by my traffic engineer, Rynal Stephenson, <br />we would like to keep the existing driveway a full access drive, as we understand in 2010 or so, that <br />drive would be converted to a right-in and right-out. But, with the current facility being as it is, we <br />can't foresee when the adjacent southern parcel would develop and give us that full access <br />intersection with Millstone. And DOT has reviewed our plans and they believe the intersection that <br />is currently there, the existing driveway, is a functional driveway. It's not an optimum, but it is <br />functioning. There is enough queue space for people making alert-hand turn into our site and vice <br />versa on Oakdale, so it seems to work. With that, we are prepared to go forward with the right-of- <br />way dedications. We've actually shaven it on all of our plans that we submitted to the State. We <br />have carried the additional right-of-way on 86, and it is in line with the entire sidewalk we're <br />proposing. We're planning on extending that to the edge of our property line. And the same with <br />Oakdale. I believe that was actually already filed with the previous site plan. <br />If there are any questions of me specifically about the site plan, I'd be happy to cover them now. <br />Otherwise, I'll let our traffic engineer give you a quick analysis of what they found from an actual <br />study of the traffic count we've done in the past week, just to help justify why we think we're making <br />a qualitative improvement, not pushing the quantity up too much. <br />Hunter Schofield: If it's ok with the Board, I think we'll hear from all of the applicants and their <br />consultants, and then, perhaps, we'll turn it over to questions. Is that agreeable? <br />OK. Then I've got J.W. Smith and Rynal Stephenson and it can be in that order, or how you <br />choose. And again, please make sure you've been sworn in and please state your name. <br />Rynal Stephenson: Good evening. My name is Rynal Stephenson and I'm with Raimey Kemp and <br />Associates, a traffic engineering firm out of Raleigh, N.C. We went out on Thursday of last week <br />and conducted traffic counts during the morning from eight o'clock to ten o'clock a.m. and also in <br />the afternoon from four o'clock to six o'clock p.m. This handout that Jonathan is currently passing <br />out -the first page gives you a summary of this brief study that we have conducted and is followed <br />