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D R A F T separate but really they go hand and hands. I really thought it would have been best in the interest of everyone if this 446 had been addressed and then questions had been asked. There’s a major and no one has mentioned this, there are 447 major power lines that separate that 12 acres from the rest of this development. I don’t know if that has been brought 448 to anyone’s attention, I’m sure the planning committee is aware of that it just seems illogical that those 12 acres are 449 essential to them putting this development in. I concur the signs are super small, many people at the July meeting 450 voiced their concerns there weren’t many of us but there were a few there. I do feel like it’s absurd that we’re talking 451 about changing the zoning of a residential area with residents and people’s homes and lives that in and of itself 452 should say. What are we doing here? Why are we doing this? Are we doing this for money? I chose to buy land in 453 Orange County and pay the higher taxes because I wanted some space, I wanted 3 acres, I wanted some woods. I454 didn’t know at the time that all this was going to be occurring or I would have changed my mind. I could have bought 455 in a different county and paid a lot lower taxes so I hope the planners here will hear our voices and as it’s been said, 456 we do the voting and I guess we’ll need to remember that when we vote again. Again, time is of the essence but I’m 457 hearing a lot of questions from people on the planning committee so we might want to direct the time to constituents 458 and residents if we want to save time and save those planning committee questions for when you guys meet at a 459 later time. Thank you.460 461 Leslie Roberts: Thank you for letting me speak, this is Leslie Roberts and I live on Old 86 about a half a mile from 462 the Davis/86 intersection. I am opposed to this and I have some concerns that have not been mentioned yet. One of 463 them being that traffic on Old 86 is picking up quite a bit since I’ve moved here I’ve noticed and I think would be 464 erroneous to assume that the traffic will stay between this warehouse and 40 since 40 is right there. I think that traffic 465 will probably increase along Old 86 to New Hope Church Road as people bypassing go another to the interstate. I 466 think that is something that should be considered also considering the narrower parts of Old 86 out here as well as 467 cyclists and just people just trying to get out of their driveways. I am also concerned because I know that this is a 468 long time coming people have not heard that this has been in motion for many many years but the world we live in 469 now is not the same world we were in when this was thought of and I think it would behoove us to really take a step 470 back and consider the footprint that we are looking at leaving with this industrial complex. Many businesses are 471 opting to work from home options that may be permanent. They are finding that automation can make smaller 472 spaces for warehouses and not as big warehouses are needed. So I think it’s frivolous at this point to consider such 473 a big industrial impact when we’re very clearly seeing that in two or three years from now the same resources may 474 not be necessary and so I think that’s really important to consider that what we’re doing here will have a lasting 475 effect. I have a question to be considered for later, are there plans to consider that is there a pivot that can be made 476 if we realize that this is not going to be fruitful. So that’s where I’m coming from. I appreciate you taking my 477 questions, thank you.478 479 Matthew Kostura: Just a couple of comments. First there have been a lot of question about what might go in here. I 480 think it’s pretty clear what going to go in here, a very large warehousing distribution center, manufacturing is probably 481 not in the cards here. You are really talking about the big impacts is traffic and with all due respect to Randy about 482 asking where people live on Davis Road, 1.8 miles away, whatever. Last I heard cars move they are going to be 483 coming down this way and a point that I want to make is that for everybody out here on Davis Road, all the 484 comments about the biking and the walking and such are true and here’s the reason why, in 20 years’ time since I’ve 485 been living here based on North Carolina’s own annual average daily trip data, the traffic on David Road has not 486 increased one bit it’s been stuck around 800 trips a day. So this is not a road for us, it’s a driveway. We don’t view it 487 as a road it’s our driveway that we come home to. Now at the top of it, you’re going to be putting the traffic bog of 488 basically four years’ worth of trips on this road, four years 3000 trips. That just doesn’t make any sense. Secondly, I 489 want to go back to Melissa Poole’s question because I think it’s really important. It seems like this rezoning is 490 backwards. How I interrupt Tom Altieri’s commentary is basically this way, we can rezone it because in the future we 491 have it marked for rezoning. So we can rezone it now. That’s basically how I’m interrupting this, I think it’s true but 492 it’s really just as a way, an ad hoc way to say, we’re going to get this way in that is critical for this development. They 493 need a second egress from that site and that land is for that. Oh and by the way, they’re putting a 300,000 square 494 foot building there too. Right next to a bunch of homes, which they are free, to sell to anybody who wants to come in 495 and put up fence. It seems to me, I really want to address that issue of how this lays out because it seems to me like 496 this a very ad hoc exercise. I really like some explanations on how that works out because it seems to me what 497 you’re justifying a present change because the future overlay that’s going to occur. Really, that cuts back to Melissa 498 Poole’s comments. Thank you, I’m done.499 500 11