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D R A F T disrupt their life if you are running multiple shifts. That’s 24 hours, could be 7 days a week 24 hours and you don’t 1223 know what kind of businesses are going in there.1224 1225 Michael Birch: Right but they are indoor activity in these buildings. In terms of like the primary use is inside, again 1226 building setbacks, vegetative buffers around the perimeter, and I mentioned earlier, those distances between just our 1227 property line in some of the closer structure to our west from the larger parcel over 1100 feet. To our south from that 1228 larger parcel over 800/900 feet so I think we are well buffered on the subject property but also a lot of the lots that 1229 surround us are deep lots with the houses situated far from the common boundary line.1230 1231 David Blankfard: Can you have the traffic engineer explain what is going on at Davis Drive and Old 86. Specifically, 1232 what the current traffic is and then when this is functioning what happens what will the new traffic pattern be.1233 1234 Matt Peach: Thank you, appreciate the question. Obviously, we recommended a traffic signal there at that location 1235 and I believe was touched on previously in the presentation but what we were concerned with at the intersection of 1236 Davis Road and Old NC 86, quite frankly, is sight distance. What our concern was traffic coming along Davis Road 1237 coming to a stop and being able to see in both direction down Old NC 86 for a sufficient distance to allow them to 1238 turn safely onto Old NC 86 to make sure there is a sufficient gap in traffic. We didn’t feel that it was there in terms of 1239 site distance so we had recommended a traffic signal to that end in addition to helping facilitate movement to and 1240 from the site. In terms of traffic today, we had full traffic counts. Currently on Davis Road at Old NC 86 there’s about 1241 170 cars along Davis Road in the morning peak hour. In the evening peak hour there is roughly 91 cars coming 1242 along Davis trying to turn onto Old NC 86. On Old NC 86 there’s a 300 northbound cars approximately in the 1243 morning and this is consistent with the evening rush hour southbound is similar about 300 in the morning and 1244 evening rush hour. 1245 1246 David Blankfard: That’s current?1247 1248 Matt Peach: That’s correct.1249 1250 Hunter Spitzer: I have a question for the County staff; does the Town’s sewer line currently follow along Cate’s 1251 Creek? Both sewer and water connections?1252 1253 Craig Benedict: I can answer that, yes the sewer line is known as the Cate’s Creek outfall and it would roughly follow 1254 those elevation changes flowing to the north. The water doesn’t have to follow the topography and it would be along1255 the service road and there is an existing 16 inch water main on Old 86 now at Davis Road all the way into 1256 Hillsborough and there is actually an emergency interconnect all the way down Old 86 to the Orange Water and 1257 Sewer Authority facility. The Old 86 line is in operation with the Town of Hillsborough now and it would be those two 1258 areas, Old 86, service road and then some sort of loop through the project would be likely with the final engineering.1259 1260 Hunter Spitzer: I was thinking less about water and sewer and more along the lines of co-locating some sort of 1261 pedestrian trail but then I remembered that you have to build a bridge over I-40, which would probably border on 1262 impossible. Maybe that should be a development …. If they are planning on redoing 40 in this area anyway which I 1263 think is the case. Ah, maybe we should see if the developer will build us a bridge, what do you say guys?1264 1265 David Blankfard: I still have a question for the traffic, what is going to be when it’s build out what are the numbers 1266 going to be?1267 1268 Matt Peach: When we put the development in, we’re looking at very little traffic coming from the south on Old NC 86. 1269 We’re looking at, we had estimated that being a maximum of 37 vehicle per hour. That’s particularly in the morning 1270 and it’s similar for the southbound on Old NC 86, that is a maximum of, we had estimated that at 28 that’s in the 1271 evening rush hour. Along Davis Road, since we are directing trucks to turn left out of this site and onto Davis for that 1272 short 1000 foot section to get to Old 86, we’re seeing a little bit higher, so we’re looking at staff, 62 in the morning 1273 traffic, an additional 62 and up to 200 vehicles per hour in the evening.1274 1275 David Blankfard: One of the comments was, did your, the traffic study was only for a.m. and p.m. was that the high 1276 times? The other times were fewer these were the maximums?1277 1278 25