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~~ I~1~:~~ T 1VITl~I-CTT~ ~ 1 more traffic and other impact from District (II than District I1. I couldn't really tell, but my 2 inclination is that District fll actually might be more disruptive of the community than District II. 3 So, I would just be curious as to what the thinking was. And then something that Commissioner 4 Nelson said that I also wanted to point out, on page 17 at the bottom, it does say the EDD 5 Design Manual for the uses of light industrial and distribution uses. One of the questions that 6 was asked was about incentives and certainly the Department of Commerce is more 7 predisposed to support non-retail uses in considering whether or not to allocate and state 8 incentives. 1 was wondering why the developers decided not to include any light industrial or 9 even flex space in this development. I also think if you're going fio have housing units within 10 these districts, that you might want to consider if you want fio make it a viable community, that 11 there be some kind of recreation that people could access, whether it is a fitness area or 12 something. Because if you want them to actually stay there and live there, then you want to 13 make it somewhat livable. 14 . 15 On page 21, there's a whole discussion of transit. I would hope that the developers would 16 consider contributing to the public transit line that the County is discussing that would run 17 east/west on US 70 that might easily include this development so that people wouldn't have to 18 use automobiles to get there, so people who maybe couldn't afford an automobile could gefi 19 there, or were too young or too old to be driving to get there. 20 21 On page 22, it talks about designated smoking areas, and 1 would suggest that you might want 22 to reconsider whether or not we want to have designated smoking areas in a development in 23 Orange County. 24 25 On page 24, you talk about the stormwater impoundments and best management practices. I 26 think I saw it, and I'm assuming that you'll use those waters, especially now that the State has 27 become a little more flexible, to do your irrigation as opposed to having to use any potable 28 water. 29 30 I was also concerned what we're talking about on page 40 regarding the signage, the maximum 31 height being 50 feet. I'd just be interested in knowing more clearly what kind of lighting we're 32 talking about, what kind of sign we're talking about. There's some discussion later on, on pages 33 ~49 and 50 about relaxing some of the buffers in order, 1 assume, to make development and 34 signage more visible, but we also heard people speaking the other night who were concerned 35 about losing the green buffer along the interstate because it would make it louder. And as 36 somebody who lives about a third of a mile from I-40 and 1-85, I can tell you it makes a big 37 difference. When they widen from four Panes to eight lanes and took out a lot of trees, it made a 38 tremendous difference. So, I would be really cautious about how much I would be willing to 39 reduce the buffer along the interstate or reduce buffers near residential areas: And I know 40 there's some discussion in here about that. 41 42 There's also mention of a public building site, but it's pretty vague. Mayor Phelps mentioned 43 Waterstone, the developer of Waterstone actually gave the Town a site and I believe is. helping 44 them build the fire sfiation. This_ is just a proposal to set aside a parcel with no clear offer of _. __ . _ ._ .. 45 anything - a gift to the public, a reduced price, a function. l'd be interested in knoviiing what the 46 proposal is. I saw the most recent documents that the proposal is to have three access points 47 onto Buckhorn Road and two onto West Ten. Some of the visuals, I only saw one access point 48 onto West. Ten. I'm not sure why we need two onto what essentially is, of the two roads 49 involved, the secondary road, whether we want to be encouraging the trafr=tc in and out to the 50 extent that we have two entrances on it. Some places showed that and some places didn't. I .~~ r~