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331 Michael Harvey reviewed where there would be an installation of a left turn lane on Service Road and on Old 332 Highway 86. 333 334 Michael Harvey then showed the 2022 buildout map. There would be two lanes of through traffic on Old Highway 86. 335 There would be a stoplight wherever the access to District 2 is built. He noted Davis Road remains unimproved. He 336 said two individuals raised concern that Davis Road would become a five-lane road. In his 13 years, he’s not seen 337 that plan. 338 339 Michael Harvey said Ed Sirgeny with Summit Engineering is present to answer questions. Michael Harvey said 340 District 1 is meant to be served by Service Road. Staff would like the developer to work on having another access. 341 Staff also needs additional time to review some of Jim Parker’s comments on the TIA. 342 343 Tony Blake asked about a super street. Michael Harvey answered I’m not going to say it’s totally abandoned because 344 it may have to happen. The developer has done its best to show we’re not going to get to the point to compel Service 345 Road to have to right turn and U-turn. Tony Blake said the concern was how to make a U-turn with a tractor trailer. 346 347 Craig Benedict said a memo was received the day of the public hearing from DOT saying there was no need for a U-348 turn. Now they’re saying you can have 900,000 square feet of warehousing or equivalent. After that would be the 349 trigger point in District 1 of having to come up with another connection farther to the south. It still allows the left turn 350 movement for a long period of time. Service Road was created when I-40 was built. DOT put it where they thought it 351 could be signalized. Now they want more space between a signal and the interstate ramp. That much can be built 352 without the need for the U-turn. 353 354 Michael Harvey said the applicant was required by staff to provide the breakdown, which he shared. It included land 355 use, size, units, adjacent street traffic volumes weekday morning and afternoon peak hours. 356 357 Jim Parker said Tony Blake, if your question is if other accesses have been explored beside Service Road, yes. 358 359 Tony Blake asked if anyone has approached DOT about combining the exit ramp and Service Road. Jim Parker 360 answered no, DOT used to do that but they don’t like that anymore. We understand there is a limit to this working 361 fluidly. Level of service is going to dictate the service road functioning. DOT is not going to allow level of service to 362 decline beyond a certain point. We will continue to try to look for alternatives to make the whole thing work. 363 364 Tony Blake said with this zoning, it doesn’t come back before the Planning Board or Orange County Board of 365 Commissioners so I want to make sure we hash it out as much as we can. 366 367 Michael Harvey said that’s not quite accurate. Right now there is access from Service Road. Any access to Old 368 Highway 86 would come back for a modification. If Jim Parker and his cohorts can find a way to get an alternative 369 access, there is going to be tweaking of the application. Every site plan application has to have a TIA. This 370 assessment is required in Orange County when the traffic trips is expected to exceed 800 trips a day but for this 371 project it is for every project regardless of the expected trips per day. 372 373 Tony Blake spoke in favor of aligning the access along the power easement. Jim Parker said we have looked at a lot 374 of options. At this point, none of them are 100 percent viable. 375 376 Kim Piracci said I’m assuming that if traffic circles were appropriate, you would consider that. 377 378 Michael Harvey said any viable traffic alternative would be studied but may not be appropriate here because tractor 379 trailers would be using this road. Traffic circles aren’t a bad thing but it’s not as viable here as in other locations in 380 Orange County. 381 382 Michael Harvey asked for other comments on the TIA. He said it sounds like the board is comfortable with the revised 383 condition, eliminating the U-Turn, revising the catch points on travel trips with the understanding that every project 384 gets a TIA, and let the developer look for a long-term second access. Lydia Wegman said she concurred with that 385 11