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Tom Altieri. The right of way would be dedicated through future private development processes, <br />so this is an unfunded plan. There is no plan now to build these roads. I think the best way to <br />describe the plan is like an insurance policy so that, as the area is develops over time the <br />County has the ability to then request right of way or have the developer make some roadway <br />improvements that are applicable to whatever property he or she is developing. So, a lot of the <br />roadway network you see there may not be achieved in the next ten years, even beyond. It is <br />only going to be achieved through the development process. As property owners want to sell <br />their property for development. If no one wants to sell their property, the developer is not <br />building those roads, the County does not have money to build those roads there would be no <br />reason. So, that’s where there will be no exercising of power of eminent domain or <br />condemnation of property to build the roads. <br />Randy Marshall: I understand that if the developer wants to develop in this area then this plan <br />would ask that developer to reserve some of that property to develop a right of way or as a right <br />of way for a road or other pieces of this plan. It would be up to the developer whether to do that <br />or not. The County is not taking anybody’s land as an eminent domain issue. If you are going to <br />develop it, this is what our long- range plan in this area is so that other properties down the road <br />– that the access from outside the area. I don’t know if I can make that any clearer or not. <br />Tom Altieri and Nish Trivedi went over the plan in more detail. The plan is designed so that no <br />property end up land locked with no access. If you are familiar with residential subdivisions and <br />that process maybe there is a cul-de-sac or stub out, there is no road going through to the <br />adjacent parcel, it is not developing yet but there is a right of way there so if and when the <br />adjacent parcel develops you can have some connectivity. The plan done in 2011 shows lines <br />and to date only one of those roads was built and it is the road that serves Morinaga candy <br />factory and the reason for that is that we haven’t had any other development in the area. If there <br />had been development the County would have been able to look at this plan and say future <br />development will be requested to dedicate right of way for future road improvements. This plan <br />is largely conceptual, but we need some type of right of way through this property so that <br />adjacent property owners can have access to their property. The 2011 Access management <br />Plan was done without the benefit of surveying. As Nish stated consultants from Pilot <br />Environmental did this survey so that is one of the differences between the 2011 plan and 2017 <br />study. The 2017 Transportation Study is a more in-depth analysis and environmental surveying <br />to determine where the lines should be on the Access Management Plan. The 2011 plan was <br />really done in our office, looking at boundaries of parcel lines, trying to avoid stream crossings <br />where we knew there were streams and those kinds of things but there was no surveying and it <br />was not really the “boots on the ground” as we do not do that type of detailed site analysis of this <br />scale in our department. So, that’s the difference between the 2017 and the 2011. Really kind <br />of an update. Much like the 2011 plan, if there is not a lot of development in the area, we won’t <br />see those roads getting built. I mentioned the service road to Morinaga, that was partially <br />funded by DOT and one of the things that DOT looked for, as it wanted to be very careful that it <br />was not providing funding for an individual driveway to go to a business, and one of the things <br />they asked for was for the County to demonstrate how this service road was part of a greater <br />transportation network to serve the area and we were able to demonstrate it was because we <br />had that 2011 Plan. We were able to show them that we had an adopted plan and as a result <br />the State contributed the money and we were able to get that road built. <br />Randy Marshall: Vision was a very good way to describe the whole process here. A vision for <br />how it could develop and what we would want to see when it is developed, but it doesn’t mean it <br />is going to be developed but if somebody comes in and wants it developed then this is what our <br />vision is, and they can take that into account.