Planning Board - 081920 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T 334 Craig Benedict: That’s correct.335 336 Jared Jurkiewicz: My name is Jared Jurkiewicz; I live down Davis Road as well just past the New Hope Subdivision. 337 I’m actually in the Windsong Subdivision, which is a tenth of a mile from them. I am also the president of the 338 homeowners association for the Windsong Subdivision representing approximately 15 households on this call and I 339 would just like us all to go on record saying that we oppose making these changes here all of us are extremely 340 concerned about the detrimental effects it will have to our community, to the traffic on Davis and to the overall 341 lifestyle of the area. It has been summarized by Franklin and several others beforehand that many of us moved out 342 here specifically because it was a rural area and we wanted to be outside of the city. We did not come here to 343 suddenly have a massive manufacturing facility and warehouse district pop up in our back yards. A lot of us are 344 incredibly unhappy about this and I don’t know if it is true or not but I know it has been discussed among people here 345 as we feel like this is being snuck in and hidden with the things such as the signs that are unreadable on the road 346 unless you stop and endanger your life to read them. That the stuff is being done very under the table and sort of an 347 underhanded fashion and it is breeding a lot of resentment with the residents of this area. I can that’s true for my 348 entire subdivision, it’s come up in our homeowners association meetings several time now and as Franklin said, it 349 really feels like, even though the statute said or the creed said that Hillsborough residents come first, it feels like we 350 are all coming last. That this corporation, which is from out of state, is getting more preferential treatment than the 351 2000 + citizens that live here and that’s pretty much my entire comment. Thank you.352 353 Hunter Spitzer: New question, I know that the Town is planning to expand sewer service area to the north of this 354 parcel that’s in question right now and they will provide services to the proposed RTLP development but I remember 355 reading the plan that they’re also planning a long term vision to build a sewer loop that will return back across 86 and 356 I wondered if the Town needs this area to complete that project?357 358 Craig Benedict: Tom, I can handle that one. The loop that they would be providing would be for a water system and 359 not a sewer system. So it’s likely that in order to get the fire flows for development of this type, that a loop would 360 occur back from I-40 near the service road through the development and back out to Old 86 where there is presently 361 a large water line in 86 now. As far as the sewer system, this area even this additional 12 acre area and the other 362 roughly 70 acres on the east side all flows by gravity naturally to the sewer systems within Hillsborough. That’s why 363 this both could be served easily by the sewer system and also water main loop that would go back to the existing 364 facilities along Old 86.365 366 Hunter Spitzer: Right, the Town doesn’t necessarily need this area to complete the water loop.367 368 Craig Benedict: There’s multiple engineering solutions. One of them would be a loop system so it’s something that’s 369 being explored to provide those fire flows that are necessary.370 371 David Blankfard: I think the other way they could do it is to have a fire pump inside each room and each building 372 could generate the flows that they would need for a sprinkler system but those are costly.373 374 Bob Bundschuh: My name is Bob Bundschuh; I also live in New Hope Springs, a couple of miles down Davis. I’ll try 375 to keep this to this particular amendment. The first question I have is when did Hillsborough actually approve this? 376 You said that this is the next step the County has to then follow suit but why now? What made it pertinent this month 377 to actually start doing this and is it related to the second part of the agenda? Looking at your first five slides, you 378 looked at all the areas that are slated for development, there are a lot of areas that are slated for development, 379 already zoned for development and aren’t developed yet. So why the push to do this right now, why don’t we wait 380 until we actually let the demand start catching up with the supply. Or as some people have said is this a quick way to 381 get this kind of rezoned and then call it the master plan which back when Settler’s Point was going on this was phase 382 3 and some type of retirement place and we’re going to go ahead and table that as kind of a negotiation tactic that 383 was used back then. So why is it suddenly become a thing to, it’s not a rezoning but we’re going to match it up with 384 the master plan for the Suburban Office. The second one is the 12 acre parcel at the northwest corner, it’s kind of 385 funny that it is connected to the redrawing of the lines to say, we need that little 12 acre parcel to become part of this 386 complex across the way. So we had 89 acres and 12 of it is across the street. Is it really realistic that someone 387 would actually go in and get that 12 acres, develop it you said, a walkable office building without drive up traffic or is 388 that a way to let’s get this little corner across the street, and Hunter even eluded to it, do we have to do it in the right 389 9