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`~~ ~~~..~~L~ T ~1~~'V V 1 ~ ~ 12 1 has asked about and to try to allow for a car to get in, park, and not be a tight, congested 2 development. 3 • 4 Sam Lasris: If you were to make itmore compact, you'd have more land available for this 5 recreation and you'd have less of a footprint. I'm sure you've seen hotels attached to shopping 6 centers. I'm just wondering why that concept was rejected. Is it that the land is so affordable? 7 8 Jim Parker: We will try to expand on that answer as well for you. 9 10 Sam Lasris: I'm also wondering if we actually will be physically blocking the residents who 11 currently live around this property. Will they consistently be blocked off from walking into or 12 cycling into this development? 13 14 Jim Parker: We've had a couple of meetings with the neighborhoods around the site. We've 15 had two meetings -one with Crestview subdivision to the southeast of the project and then the 16 community to the north across 85. Crestview indicated to us at.that meeting, there were same 17 concerns about not making that connection between the two, and we certainly encouraged them 18 to speak to that at the public hearing and we would try to support whatever we heard at that 19 point. There is currently not an intended connection point to that subdivision. It's not saying 20 that it's something we would not•do, it's just we have not included that. 21 22 Sam Lasris: I know you're not the traffic engineer, but 1 was looking at the dates that the traffic 23 counts were made, .and they were only made on weekdays. I'm wondering why no traffic counts 24 were made on weekends, and that's really where the traffic is coming heavily. 25 26 Jim Parker: Lynn Hill is our traffic consultant, but I will say that the major traffic concern now is 27 on the weekend because the road capacity is not designed for what's happening. In fact, there 28 are no improvements to the road system out there now to handle what is happening. Once the 29 • improvements are made based on the traffic for the development, you're going to see quite an 30 improvement on the weekend. • 31 32 The Clerk swore in Lynn Hill. 33 34 Lynn Hill: I think that what's happening out there now on the weekend would give it a distorted 35 view of existing traffic. That's why the decision was made to state the traffic counts on 36 weekdays~because of the flea market in that area. It would distort the existing traffic. 37 38 Craufurd Goodwin: I have a question and then a comment. I understand that the 39 circumstance that the County is out of compliance with the ozone quite substantially. If that's 40 the case; does it make sense to support a project that will bring thousands of cars and will 41 increase the problem of ozone? I wonder if anybody has explored that; and if so, how will we 42 deal with the issue? 43 44 My observation is that the document we received, which is called an Economic Impact 45 Statement, is -certainly not that: It's sort of a partial fiscal impact statements I think that-what-~we 46 really needed to do due diligence. of this project is a serious fiscal impact statement. For 47 example, taking. not just sales tax, but also real estate tax, and all of the costs; all of the 48 expenses for police, and schools, and fire, and all of the other things. An economic impact 49 statement, a genuine one, would also be very interesting, taut it is much harder to construct. 50 think until you have that, it's very hard to reach any kind of conclusion. 51 (~ r~ ~~