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destructive when it came in. It changed people's lives forever. A lot of the people moved out <br />and got out of there. And now, you punch a road in there, you'll see for sale signs pop up there <br />next week and the County Commissioner meetings are going to be marred. Sensitivity to <br />community and citizens must be paramount in all of this planning. And I praise this young lady <br />here for having the intestinal fortitude to come out at 9:30 at night to speak out. <br />Commissioner Carey: Did I hear you say that the bicycle rack is not a <br />recommendation and you would ask us whether we wanted to make it one. <br />Robert Davis: You're exactly right. It was not a Planning Board recommendation, it <br />was buried on page three of the report, where it says, "bicycle racks shall be installed." It was <br />not a recommendation; you don't have to do it. <br />Commissioner Carey: The other question I had is are there sidewalks along 86 now? <br />Robert Davis: No sir. <br />Commissioner Carey: What are we going to connect the sidewalk to if we require it to <br />ga dawn the hill to the street. <br />Robert Davis: I've always heard that concrete will last a long time and eventually it <br />would be connected if the road were done. You're about 3,500 feet south of where the <br />Waterstone connection comes through. It's interconnectivity, walkability on the campus, <br />basically one of the smart growth initiatives generally that you try to promote walkability on sites <br />and get ready for the next site. <br />Commissioner Carey: I don't want us to create any potential unsafe situations by <br />encouraging people to walk down there and walk out on that street with those cars zooming by. <br />That would be a concern forme. <br />Geof Gledhill: Let me make clear that the neither the Planning Board nor the <br />administration, which is John Link, Craig Benedict, and myself, have made a recommendation <br />with respect to the bike racks. Also, neither the Planning Board nor the administration is <br />recommending that there be any effort at all to connect up this road. What the recommendation <br />amounts to is recommending that a condition of approval be that the Board of Education deed <br />the property that would allow connection if, at some point in the future, there were further <br />development of the 20.8-acre property or some other further reason to later make that road <br />connection. There is nothing in the recommendation that commits anybody to a road; in fact it <br />speaks directly the opposite to that. This is condition #12, which states specifically that no <br />interconnectivity or improvements to Story Lane have been proposed and none are authorized <br />herein. We concur with the sense of Commissioner Halkiotis that there is no reason to make a <br />road connection now; we're just reserving the opportunity if there ever is a reason to make a <br />connection. <br />Chair Jacobs: Is Greystone Lane a platted public road. !t was answered yes. So, the <br />roadway is to be reserved to make a connection for that should there be a reason. <br />Geof Gledhill: Should there be a reason either one end or the other to make that a <br />public road connection. It is similar to stub outs that you have required in a lot of subdivision <br />work throughout the subdivision process. The fact that there is a stub out does not mean that <br />there will be a road there, it just means that you are reserving that opportunity in the event <br />someday there is a reason to do it. <br />Craig Benedict: This subdivision of 43 lots had three stub outs in the original plan to <br />and this property was also undeveloped over here at that time. On a portion of the existing <br />Stanback school site, there is a sliver of property that starts creating that alignment to that <br />portion there. This was a full right-of-way given completely on Stanback school property, and <br />then a sliver heading towards that Greystone Lane connection. Just as perspective, those were <br />some stub outs that were a part of the original subdivision. <br />Chair Jacobs: As far as the issue of connectivity, Moses, even with the sidewalks, <br />when you think about the fact that there is water and sewer on new 86, and one of the mistakes <br />that I think that Hillsborough was realizing that it's made in its development until now is that it <br />