Agenda - 04-18-2017 - 8-a - Minutes

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3 1 Given the above issues, the NTAAC recommends the following: 2 3 1. The Commissioners request the DOT re-evaluate the traffic flows and patterns along 4 Old 86 and Eubanks Roads. 2013 Corridor/Traffic Studies have 6,400 trips/day on Old 5 86. (In comparison Jones Ferry Rd has 8,600 trips/day.) Surely the number of trips have 6 increased over the past four years. 7 8 2. We believe improvements can be made to both ends of Eubanks Road. 9 • West end by Morris Grove can be improved by adding a dedicated right turn lane 10 into the school. 11 • East end by Martin Luther King Blvd can be improved by extending the existing 12 right turn lane. 13 14 3. Any park or new development along Old 86 include traffic studies and specific plans and 15 methods to mitigate the additional traffic. 16 17 4. Any new future park entrances along Old NC 86 be limited a one way right turn and exit 18 through Morris Grove at Eubanks. 19 20 5. And finally, we strongly recommend that the Commissioners discuss these traffic 21 issues along Old 86 and Eubanks roads during your Joint Review Meetings with the 22 Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill, including the status of the North-South Connector 23 Road via Lake Hogan Farms Extension. 24 25 Anahid Vrana reviewed the remaining portion of the handout: 26 27 3) Excessive Trash along Old NC 86 Calvander to Eubanks: 28 The NTAAC is also concern about the excessive trash along Old NC 86 (Calvander to 29 Eubanks). We believe this will only get worse now that the Eubanks Road Solid Waste 30 Convenience Center is closed for renovations until November. On Old 86, the trash is 31 collected twice a year by the Highway Departments' prison systems. This schedule is not 32 frequent enough. Old NC 86 is a major artery road feeding to the Solid Waste Center, and 33 unfortunately garbage accumulates along this road at a more rapid rate than other 34 locations. 35 36 The Solid Waste staff routinely collects the road side garbage along Eubanks road. NTAAC 37 recommends that the Commissioners ask Solid Waste Staff to extend the service of picking 38 up the trash to this section of Old Hwy 86. (From Eubanks Road south to Calvander 39 intersection.) 40 41 4) Carrboro's proposal to site light-industrial land uses on the Town-owned property: 42 Recently it has come to the NTAAC's attention that the Town of Carrboro is considering 43 permitting light-industrial land uses on the town property located at 7917 Old Hwy 86. 44 (Presented to the Board of Aldermen by the Town's Economic and Community Development 45 Director on September 20th 2016. The particulars of this meeting can be found here: 46 https://carrboro.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2839205&GUID=DE286B5B- 47 CFDC-4C66-940A-35308El32327&Options=IDITextI&Search=flex 48 49 Has this proposed commercial use been discussed/presented to the Commissioners and what 50 is your reaction to the idea?