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more traffic and other impact from District III than District II. I couldn't really tell, but my <br /> inclination is that District III actually might be more disruptive of the community than District II. <br /> So, I would just be curious as to what the thinking was. And then something that Commissioner <br /> Nelson said that I also wanted to point out, on page 17 at the bottom, it does say the EDD <br /> Design Manual for the uses of light industrial and distribution uses. One of the questions that <br /> was asked was about incentives and certainly the Department of Commerce is more <br /> predisposed to support non-retail uses in considering whether or not to allocate any state <br /> incentives. I was wondering why the developers decided not to include any light industrial or <br /> even flex space in this development. I also think if you're going to have housing units within <br /> these districts, that you might want to consider if you want to make it a viable community, that <br /> there be some kind of recreation that people could access, whether it is a fitness area or <br /> something. Because if you want them to actually stay there and live there, then you want to <br /> make it somewhat livable. <br /> On page 21, there's a whole discussion of transit. I would hope that the developers would <br /> consider contributing to the public transit line that the County is discussing that would run <br /> east/west on US 70 that might easily include this development so that people wouldn't have to <br /> use automobiles to get there, so people who maybe couldn't afford an automobile could get <br /> there, or were too young or too old to be driving to get there. <br /> On page 22, it talks about designated smoking areas, and I would suggest that you might want <br /> to reconsider whether or not we want to have designated smoking areas in a development in <br /> Orange County. <br /> On page 24, you talk about the stormwater impoundments and best management practices. I <br /> think I saw it, and I'm assuming that you'll use those waters, especially now that the State has <br /> become a little more flexible, to do your irrigation as opposed to having to use any potable <br /> water. <br /> I was also concerned what we're talking about on page 40 regarding the signage, the maximum <br /> height being 50 feet. I'd just be interested in knowing more clearly what kind of lighting we're <br /> talking about, what kind of sign we're talking about. There's some discussion later on, on pages <br /> 49 and 50 about relaxing some of the buffers in order, I assume, to make development and <br /> signage more visible, but we also heard people speaking the other night who were concerned <br /> about losing the green buffer along the interstate because it would make it louder. And as <br /> somebody who lives about a third of a mile from 1-40 and 1-85, I can tell you it makes a big <br /> difference. When they widen from four lanes to eight lanes and took out a lot of trees, it made a <br /> tremendous difference. So, I would be really cautious about how much I would be willing to <br /> reduce the buffer along the interstate or reduce buffers near residential areas. And I know <br /> there's some discussion in here about that. <br /> There's also mention of a public building site, but it's pretty vague. Mayor Phelps mentioned <br /> Waterstone, the developer of Waterstone actually gave the Town a site and I believe is helping <br /> them build the fire station. This is just a proposal to set aside a parcel with no clear offer of <br /> anything - a gift to the public, a reduced price, a function. I'd be interested in knowing what the <br /> proposal is. I saw the most recent documents that the proposal is to have three access points <br /> onto Buckhorn Road and two onto West Ten. Some of the visuals, I only saw one access point <br /> onto West Ten. I'm not sure why we need two onto what essentially is, of the two roads <br /> involved, the secondary road, whether we want to be encouraging the traffic in and out to the <br /> extent that we have two entrances on it. Some places showed that and some places didn't. 1 <br />