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excess of niumber of people who would be using the airport to fly airplanes. <br /> ^ 0a the amount of motor vehicle traffic increases so does the adverse impacts <br /> . associated Airport. <br /> � <br /> addition In �o�ion to not being able to quantify the amount of motor vehicle <br /> traffic associated with the related uses proposed for the airporL, the request <br /> to remove <br /> amount of traffic on highway 51. The 50% limit on flight traindng, was 1oteu— ' <br /> dcd to miniMize the amount of noise created by airplanes making practice runs <br /> the at <br /> - --p- -' 0151 <br /> In order o estimate tha�impact of t4h =' <br /> is necessary to be able <br /> | etim0e611-tm know the number of aircraft operations anticipated. The number of operat <br /> [ <br /> ons <br /> Jmidimmillim- effects the number of motor vehicle trips which would take place on <br /> Hwy 54 and would also effect the size of the noise contours generated by the <br /> aircraft using the facility. By restricting the number of flight training operations <br /> the Planning Staff believes that the number of motor vehiCle trips .on Hwy 54 can be <br /> kept downliadd the amount of noise generated by airplanes. The Planning Staff <br /> would defer to |8nuc Matthews' figures for motor e r vehicle trips c ps cpntainod in a <br /> letter dated 6430/82, in which he estimated the number of vehicle trips per day <br /> to be between 9 14 5 (based on the number of operations) to 1600 trips (based on the <br /> number of based aircraft) . Matthews indicated the the North Carolina Department of <br /> Transportation felt-more comfortable with the trip generation figure based on <br /> operations. <br /> The area included in noise contours around the airport expand as the number <br /> of operations ncreasc' <br /> fire s�� x�� condition the developers would like to have deleted concerns <br /> f <br /> the irc truck access required to the property from Teer Road. The Orange <br /> Grove Fire Department asked that the road be required so that the response <br /> time to a fire alarm might be reduced. <br /> The Planning Staff feels that the conditions as they existed on - <br /> September 7, 1982, have not changed and therefore staff does not feel it <br /> is necessary to Modify, amend or delete any of the conditions impb»ed on the <br /> approval of the Special Use Pennir. <br />