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transportation system, minimize congestion and crash rates, provide efficient traffic flow and pedestrian safety; and provide appropriate access to adjacent business properties. (included in your packet you received is a copy of the power point presentation.) One slide was not included in your packet and it explains what the plan is and is not. The plan is a long-range vision of the area, it is a means to get people to dedicate the right of way as development applications come in. It is not a road map, it is not for buying or constructing roads. It is not to purchase the right of way, it is not for design of the road and it is not guaranteed. The development may occur and this plan is subject to change over the years. The plan for this started back in 1981. A comprehensive plan was done in 1981 and an area plan later in 1991. The water and sewer plan was done in 2002 for the area. The Efland Area Study followed by 2006 Efland-Mebane Small Area Plan and the 2011 E-B-M Access Management Plan was adopted by the County and we are simply updating that plan. In 2017 Volkert Inc did a transportation study of the area and we will hear more about in the presentation. The original 2011 Access Plan included a map of the area and possible roads that will be in this area and improvements that will be done. It included a variety of access management strategies including and 2 possible street cross sections. In September 2011 the Planning Board and Orange Unified Transportation Board reviewed it and made its recommendations. There was a public information meeting held in November of that year and the Board adopted it that same month on November 15, 2011. In 2017 Volkert was contracted to do a Transportation Study for this area and they did it with the help of Pilot Environmental Inc who studied of environmental concerns and issues including existing conditions analysis, land use and traffic impacts, corridor and intersection feasibilities for this 4.25 square mile area. Randy Marshall asked a question: Who contracted this study- the State? Nish Trivedi answered: The County paid for the study. Nish Trivedi continued presentation. This study included a big spreadsheet with 30 rows of data that showed what the various development sites might be. How much might be developed for example a 100-acre of land and only about 30 acres of it could be developed due to constraints, environmental issues and market factors. What is developed on these 30 acres would help determine the traffic impact in the area, traffic impact being how many cars it might generate. The 2017 Transportation Study also evaluated NCDOT 24 different street cross sections; these are what State routes are required to look like. It proposed 3 NCDOT cross sections of those for this area. The Study also took into consideration the impact at intersections, what would be needed at those intersections such as turn lanes and stop signs. The slides show some of the intersections that would need turn lanes, stops signs, etc. to address the increased traffic for that development. Now we are in the process of updating the original 2011 Access Management Plan using the 2017 Transportation Study. On August 28, we conducted a community meeting at Gravely Hill Middle School to let the public know what is going on in this process and get their feedback. The study also included recommendations and these are all presented to you for your consideration as part of the draft. We are taking the original 2011 Plan, adding the transportation study, with public comments, to create a whole new Efland-Buckhorn-Mebane Access Management Plan. The study analyzed possible roads, these roads were carried forward from the original 2011 Access Management Plan to insure everyone had access to their property while development occurs, and the circles are for the various intersections. The green lines are from the study itself. The purple lines you see are where staff identified additional roads that would be needed and additional studies would also be required to address the increased traffic issues brought on by future development. The red circles are the intersections from the 2017 Transportation Study. We as staff think that additional intersections will be needed and more study and possible improvements needed for those intersections (see the