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could become a four-lane road in the future. I doubt that the first developer that comes in, would be asked to provide 256 four lanes unless a very large project because otherwise there would not be enough associated projected traffic there 257 to justify that type of improvement. 258 259 Adam Beeman mentioned the bridge at 86 and I-85 coming over from Wal Mart. It’s got to the point that something 260 has to happen, it’s getting pretty congested. 261 262 Nish Trivedi – The interchange at I-85 at NC-86 is a funded project in the State’s Strategic Prioritization of 263 Transportation (SPOT) 5.0. The State will eventually redo this interchange. 264 265 Hunter Spitzer asked about alternative transportation such as for cyclists, pedestrians? 266 267 Nish Trivedi answered yes. In 3 the NCDOT cross sections recommended as part of the 2017 Transportation Study 268 include bike/ped accommodations such as sidewalks and/or paved shoulders. The plans show 5 ft sidewalks, paved 269 shoulders – 5 ft paved shoulders even without sidewalks. Just for area west of I-85. Nothing planned for east other 270 than 5 ft paved shoulders. 271 272 Carrie Fletcher asked about eminent domain. If you are talking about accessing right of way are you talking about 273 private lands? 274 275 Tom Altieri. The right of way would be dedicated through future private development processes, so this is an 276 unfunded plan. There is no plan now to build these roads. I think the best way to describe the plan is like an 277 insurance policy so that, as the area is develops over time the County has the ability to then request right of way or 278 have the developer make some roadway improvements that are applicable to whatever property he or she is 279 developing. So, a lot of the roadway network you see there may not be achieved in the next ten years, even beyond. 280 It is only going to be achieved through the development process. As property owners want to sell their property for 281 development. If no one wants to sell their property, the developer is not building those roads, the County does not 282 have money to build those roads there would be no reason. So, that’s where there will be no exercising of power of 283 eminent domain or condemnation of property to build the roads. 284 285 Randy Marshall: I understand that if the developer wants to develop in this area then this plan would ask that 286 developer to reserve some of that property to develop a right of way or as a right of way for a road or other pieces of 287 this plan. It would be up to the developer whether to do that or not. The County is not taking anybody’s land as an 288 eminent domain issue. If you are going to develop it, this is what our long- range plan in this area is so that other 289 properties down the road – that the access from outside the area. I don’t know if I can make that any clearer or not. 290 291 Tom Altieri and Nish Trivedi went over the plan in more detail. The plan is designed so that no property end up land 292 locked with no access. If you are familiar with residential subdivisions and that process maybe there is a cul-de-sac 293 or stub out, there is no road going through to the adjacent parcel, it is not developing yet but there is a right of way 294 there so if and when the adjacent parcel develops you can have some connectivity. The plan done in 2011 shows 295 lines and to date only one of those roads was built and it is the road that serves Morinaga candy factory and the 296 reason for that is that we haven’t had any other development in the area. If there had been development the County 297 would have been able to look at this plan and say future development will be requested to dedicate right of way for 298 future road improvements. This plan is largely conceptual, but we need some type of right of way through this 299 property so that adjacent property owners can have access to their property. The 2011 Access management Plan 300 was done without the benefit of surveying. As Nish stated consultants from Pilot Environmental did this survey so that 301 is one of the differences between the 2011 plan and 2017 study. The 2017 Transportation Study is a more in-depth 302 analysis and environmental surveying to determine where the lines should be on the Access Management Plan. The 303 2011 plan was really done in our office, looking at boundaries of parcel lines, trying to avoid stream crossings where 304 we knew there were streams and those kinds of things but there was no surveying and it was not really the “boots on 305 the ground” as we do not do that type of detailed site analysis of this scale in our department. So, that’s the 306 11