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APPROVED 5/4/16 7 Tony Blake: The one I was interested in was Orange Grove Road cutting through to 70, and that would take some of 320 the pressure off Churton street in downtown Hillsborough. 321 322 Craig Benedict: We’re interested in the development that Hillsborough recently approved, Collin’s Ridge, a thousand 323 units that would be using that as the primary access point because that’s the only… And they have to get additional 324 right of way for that. We’re trying to see if some contributions by the developer could accelerate that road. 325 326 Paul Guthrie: Is the state still listing the train station… 327 328 Craig Benedict: Yes, it’s still on schedule. It’s not 2017, I think it’s 2019… That’s an important link and if we can 329 leverage all the money together it could accelerate that project. The developer of Colin’s Ridge was going to make 8 330 improvements on Churton by 2018 and 2022 Churton Street was going to be widened by DOT in 2023. And so our 331 recommendations from the county were, why don’t you take the money from the developer, give it to DOT and have 332 them bring the whole project forward instead of .. And reconstruction and the waste of those 8 improvements… And 333 we have a new finding that could make this even more feasible. They actually want to bend/change the curvature in 334 that area and so what they could do is while they’re building the new curvature which is shorter they can build the 335 tunnel before they build the track on top of it which is a lot cheaper and it doesn’t make the rail paranoid that you’re 336 tunneling underneath it in active traffic. That’s something that we just got recently. 337 338 Tony Blake: So one more question… I was reading today and I went to that meeting with the Chamber of Commerce 339 in Chapel Hill and there was some talk about this, they used to call it the EDGE… And so is there any movement 340 there in that joint planning area or is that still… 341 342 Craig Benedict: It’s Chapel Hill’s decision… They changed. It was JPA but last year they turned to… They asked for 343 comments from Orange County on that but the master plan developed had this wide range of approvals from 30% 344 residential to 70% residential so the impacts for that wide range is quite a difference so we said 30% residential and 345 70% non-residential tax base. It probably would be a good balance sheet for County purposes. 346 AGENDA ITEM 9: ADJOURNMENT 347 348 Motion to adjourn made by Lisa Stuckey. 349 ___________________________________________ Lydia Wegman, Chair