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~~_ ~l lJ ~~ ~ 13 ~~~ 1 Bernadette Pelissier: Yes, I had questions about the water and sewer. I guess on page 5, 2 there's a reference to this being within the Water and Sewer Management Boundary 3 Agreement. I don't know what agreement there specifically exists. I guess the specific 4 questions I have are, 1 know there are other tracts of land that are a part of this EDD that are not 5 in question here, and I am wondering if there are long-range plans that the Town of Mebane has 6 about what's the capacity to actually serve the remaining area of the EDD, and how would it be 7 impacted by this type of development here that's not light industrial. What else could you do on 8 the adjacent property? I'd like to know a little bit more about that. Are there any discussions 9 about whether or not Mebane would intent on annexing any of the property since it's so close. I 10 think that's something we really need to look at. I'd like to see that there's some agreement 11 here with Mebane, and I don't know what's going on. 12 13 Chair Jacobs: We'll get to that. 14 15 Michelle Kempinski: The first one has to do with the types of uses that are being requested as 16 . part of the planned development. On pages 15-16, it talks about that there's a series of places 17 for District I, II, and III. For example, District I lists retail trade as the uses. And then ~ . 18 accommodation, retail, finance/insurance, services in District II. Retail, services, residential, 19 and government in District III. The concern that I have is, not in that they're listed, but in the 20 specificity and the intended use. Because on page 17 there is a conversion table that allows 21 you flexibility of converting one to another based on design factors that will convert retail to 22 condos, or theater to retail, and so on and so forth. I. would have a concern that the conversion 23 factor is a part of the application, because then it's not a specified use. If you could outline the 24 reason for the table on page 17, and what are some of the tentative scenarios that you would 25 expect to see that would lead you to request that there be a conversion factor as part of the '?6 specified use. L7 28 Jim Parker: That was one of the questions that we responded to, basically what does retail use 29 mean, what does that encompass. We gave some outline items in our response as well as the 30 services.. We responded to those and you'll see that. The conversion table is to convert theater 31 seats, hotel rooms, and condos from retail square footage. 32 33 Michelle Kempinski: In one direction only? . 34 35 Jim Parker: You could go either way. The intent of that table was so that it does not 36 contaminate or change the traffic generation numbers that had been provided in the TIP,. For 37 example, and these are just numbers that I'm pulling out of my head, so they mean absolutely 38 nothing. For example, we.have 20,000 trips that are coming to this development based on the 39 land use plan that you have now and the square footage that you have in front of you in the 40 three district tables. We could use that conversion factor, the way that it's spelled out, and 41 those 20,000 trips don't change. They're still 20,000 trips. That was the reason for that table. 42 There's some level of flexibility built into this plan in order for us to be able to determine an end. 43 Is there one theater, is there one hotel, or are there two hotels with 400 rooms, or one hotel with 44 200 rooms? You can't just add that, you need to be able to balance the background. 45 46 Michelle Kempinski: I understand the implications of the traffc analysis, my concern is that 47 uses need to be specified in the special use permit and not be provisional as part of the 48 ordinance. Also, my concern would be that, for example, 200 condos may be deemed as an 49 undesirable use in the district after the application is approved, and the conversion table would 50 be used because it was also approved to delete those 200 condos and swap them out for retail. 51 That's a concern that I have.