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Bernadette Pelissier: Yes, I had questions about the water and sewer. I guess on page 5, there's a reference to this being within the Water and Sewer Management Boundary Agreement. I don't know what agreement there specifically exists. I guess the specific questions I have are, I know there are other tracts of land that are a part of this EDD that are not in question here, and I am wondering if there are long-range plans that the Town of Mebane has about what's the capacity to actually serve the remaining area of the EDD, and how would it be impacted by this type of development here that's not light industrial. What else could you do on the adjacent property? I'd like to know a little bit more about that. Are there any discussions about whether or not Mebane would be intent on annexing any of the property since it's so close. I think that's something we really need to look at. I'd like to see that there's some agreement here with Mebane, and I don't know what's going on. Chair Jacobs: We'll get to that. Michelle Kempinski: The first one has to do with the types of uses that are being requested as part of the planned development. On pages 15-16, it talks about that there's a series of places for District I, II, and III. For example, District I lists retail trade as the uses. And then accommodation, retail, finance/insurance, services in District II. Retail, services, residential, and government in District III. The concern that I have is, not in that they're listed, but in the specificity and the intended use. Because on page 17 there is a conversion table that allows you flexibility of converting one to another based on design factors that will convert retail to condos, or theater to retail, and so on and so forth. I would have a concern that the conversion factor is a part of the application, because then it's not a specified use. If you could outline the reason for the table on page 17, and what are some of the tentative scenarios that you would expect to see that would lead you to request that there be a conversion factor as part of the specified use. Jim Parker: That was one of the questions that we responded to, basically what does retail use mean, what does that encompass. We gave some outline items in our response as well as the services. We responded to those and you'll see that. The conversion table is to convert theater seats, hotel rooms, and condos from retail square footage. Michelle Kempinski: In one direction only? Jim Parker: You could go either way. The intent of that table was so that it does not contaminate or change the traffic generation numbers that had been provided in the TIA. For example, and these are just numbers that I'm pulling out of my head, so they mean absolutely nothing. For example, we have 20,000 trips that are coming to this development based on the land use plan that you have now and the square footage that you have in front of you in the three district tables. We could use that conversion factor, the way that it's spelled out, and those 20,000 trips don't change. They're still 20,000 trips. That was the reason for that table. There's some level of flexibility built into this plan in order for us to be able to determine an end. Is there one theater, is there one hotel, or are there two hotels with 400 rooms, or one hotel with 200 rooms? You can't just add that, you need to be able to balance the background. Michelle Kempinski: I understand the implications of the traffic analysis, my concern is that uses need to be specified in the special use permit and not be provisional as part of the ordinance. Also, my concern would be that, for example, 200 condos may be deemed as an undesirable use in the district after the application is approved, and the conversion table would