Planning Board - 081920 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T applicant, we got comments from the Department of Transportation on this project Friday, July 31st and again that is 1447 not anything that staff or the applicant control. The applicant has responded to the Department of Transportation and 1448 we are waiting for those comments. We’ve heard tonight from Planning Board members on discussion points on 1449 potential conditions that you all would to see vetted before you make a final decision. We have obviously heard 1450 some comments from the public and there’s going to be obviously some additional comments so as I see it the Board 1451 technically has a couple of options. The Board could table any decision providing the applicant with areas of specific 1452 focus that they want answers to, I’ve heard loud and clear and in my note the primary concerns is traffic impact and 1453 more review of the DOT comments and the applicants responses and what DOT says to some of the traffic concerns 1454 I’ve heard. So you could certainly delay any decision til or table the item until your next regular meeting, which would 1455 be September 2nd to wait for that information. Craig and I have had a texting discussion about this very topic over the 1456 last hour, you could identify areas where you have less concerns or you are satisfied with the conditions and the 1457 applicant’s responses and identify specific conditions you’d like to see fleshed out, you could adjourn this meeting to 1458 a date and time certain in a couple of weeks conceivably to revisit this discussion or the Board could vote either to 1459 make a recommendation to approve or make a recommendation to deny this evening. I’m not trying to say you don’t 1460 have any of those options but staff was going to recommend was that we’re still waiting on DOT to get us some 1461 documentation as is the applicant and hearing some of the discussion tonight, I think that there is a comfort level 1462 lacking with the transportation component from staff, the applicant who is waiting on DOT and you all and that might 1463 need some discussion. Whatever you all’s decision is, I would like to strongly urge you to identify any specific areas 1464 of concern be it traffic, be it alternative energy conditions, whatnot so that the applicant and staff have a clear 1465 understanding of what we need to be working on in the interim to provide you the feedback you’re asking for so you 1466 can make an informed decision. If that makes sense and thank you Hunter for asking.1467 1468 David Blankfard: So what does everybody have a concern with?1469 1470 Adam Beeman: My biggest concern is I want to see whatever the DOT is come to them with and determine whatever 1471 steps necessary to rectify, my biggest concern is coming off of the highway and right there at the highway. I am not 1472 so concerned as Davis Road as much as the highway but that’s all part of the study so I’d like to see what DOT’s 1473 response was.1474 1475 Hunter Spitzer: I would like the applicant to consider removing access to Davis Road as they move forward with the 1476 process cause I suspect that we will probably vote to delay at least until our Planning Board meeting and potentially 1477 until we, until you end negotiations with the DOT. Conditionally, I would like a more concise proposal on electrical 1478 vehicle charging. I will just put the number out there at 1 station per 100.000 square feet of space to be built. Those 1479 are my largest concerns at the moment.1480 1481 Michael Harvey: Chair Blankfard, if I could interject quickly. I’m sorry I know that Ms. Poole lost her internet access if 1482 I recall what Perdita said. One of her concerns was more specificity in land uses. In terms of what would fall into this 1483 categories and what would not. At least that’s what I have in my notes.1484 1485 Hunter Spitzer: If I may say one more thing, particularly to the residents that are listening. A lot of what we’ve been 1486 doing over the past hour has been talking about conditions that we would like to request from the developer, that’s 1487 the nice part about this master planning conditional zoning is that we can ask for certain conditions to be met and so 1488 if you all and I understand that you are all very opposed to this but in the off chance that it can’t be stopped, you do 1489 have the opportunity to shape this development through this process and so I encourage you to consider what you 1490 might want to put in as conditions if at all possible.1491 1492 David Blankfard: I have a huge concern about the traffic being dumped onto Davis Drive. Not just some of the traffic 1493 but everything is going to be dumped onto Davis Drive because NCDOT does not want anybody to come out the 1494 service road. So I don’t know if anybody else feels that way or if we want to see if the applicant can come up with a 1495 better way of getting access to the site. Are we comfortable making a decision now or wanting to wait?1496 1497 Hunter Spitzer: I move that we delay a decision on our recommendation until our next meeting on September 2nd.1498 1499 Michael Birch: This is Michael Birch, the applicant, I think the outstanding issues that appear to be out there are one 1500 responses from DOT but I want to reiterate that whatever DOT comes back with in terms of requested improvements, 1501 those will be made. So it’s not really a negation in that respect. Second with regard to some of the comments about 1502 29