Planning Board - 081920 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T Franklin Garland: Thank you for taking my questions again, I know I am using a lot of the time out here. Somethings 611 that haven’t been asked yet and I know this will come up later on in the meeting but are any Commissioners present 612 today for this meeting. That’s one question, ok.613 614 Perdita Holtz: Can I go ahead and answer that and say that Commission Chair Penny Rich is on the call as an 615 attendee.616 617 Franklin Garland: She the only one.618 619 Perdita Holtz: Yes, it is not typical that BOCC members attend Planning Board meeting.620 621 Franklin Garland: So this is moot, what we’re discussing the decision everything we’re saying.622 623 Perdita Holtz: Well this the Planning Board meeting and there will be a public hearing before the Board of County 624 Commissioners at a future date.625 626 Franklin Garland: It’s my understanding, and everybody that has spoken so far that this was in fact an information 627 meeting with the Commissioners present and once again it seems to me that the Planning Board is trying to sweep 628 everything under that rug. Ok, again pulling the wool in front of our eyes. Big questions for you guys, there is the 629 Research Triangle Logistic Park Company out there Terra Equity did a presentation for a hand full of people because 630 nobody else was notified and Planning Board has made it a point of not notifying all the people that really get 631 involved but just the ones that are in contact with the property. Ok, so sort of devious, ok because there are, like I 632 said, thousands of people that get affected by this not just the 12 parcels around it. However, big big question, we 633 did have an informational meeting on July 15th I believe it was and they said it was going to create 4500 jobs. The 634 same argument used by the planning that was going to create this jobs for from Northern Orange County. So, this 635 was with Summit Corporation. If we have 4500 new jobs out here and that are being created for the people who live 636 in Northern Orange County, that means we’re going to have approximately 4500 cars coming through Hillsborough 637 additional to the traffic that is a mess already there, in the morning and those cars are going to be returning in the 638 afternoon ok. I don’t think that is exactly good planning by the way. I mean we really need a different way other than 639 Churton to get through Hillsborough and that’s never going to happen but let’s go ahead and double the traffic out 640 there. 4600 people that almost the population of Hillsborough that you actually adding to the traffic conditions out 641 there ok. I don’t know if you guys have considered that apparently not because certainly that would require putting in 642 four lanes or at least 2 lanes in every direction and that’s not in the plans either. I understand that DOT doesn’t have 643 money to convert the roads at this one and to the work and Hillsborough doesn’t either ok. I also, actually good 644 question out here, everything we got pretty much blindsided with Summit and it got approved. I will ask someone 645 who is in the know, Summit got approved pretty much they just blew us away and said we’re going to do whatever we 646 want anyhow and you did and then they pulled out. Why did they pull out, when did they pull out, what did Terra offer 647 you that is making you do it. When did they let you know that they were going to do this and why weren’t we 648 informed that this all had happened? Any care to comment on that, it is planning, this is you know obviously 649 somebody planned Summit and decided to get out of it. Somebody now trying to just pull another one over us. I 650 wouldn’t mind if Mr. Harvey or Mr. Benedict answered this one cause apparently they’re the one in charge of this and 651 I hope they’re present because they are the planning commission and if they’re not there why are we even having 652 this meeting?653 654 Craig Benedict: I can give you a brief answer; we will provide something in writing. The developer of Settler’s Point 655 received approval in January 2018. At times, developers do not stay with the project and we are not privy to why they 656 left the project, cease to exist. Another project did pick that up.657 658 Franklin Garland: Have you seen the damage they did back there already? And the wildlife that the displaced? I 659 mean they literally raised it and then abandoned it.660 661 David Blankfard: I think that was the tornado.662 663 Franklin Garland: No, no, no, no, no, no we’re talking about 90 + acres that are devastated back there not tornados. 664 Raised, cut down and raised and leveled with grading already having started on it. I am just curious why they pulled 665 out. It seems like you guys would know. There would be some agreement that there have to do it since they went 666 14