Planning Board - 090220 Agenda Packet

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16 DRAFT 611 Franklin Garland: Thank you for taking my questions again, I know I am using a lot of the time out here. Somethings 612 that haven't been asked yet and I know this will come up later on in the meeting but are any Commissioners present 613 today for this meeting. That's one question,ok. 614 615 Perdita Holtz: Can I go ahead and answer that and say that Commission Chair Penny Rich is on the call as an 616 attendee. 617 618 Franklin Garland: She the only one. 619 620 Perdita Holtz: Yes, it is not typical that BOCC members attend Planning Board meeting. 621 622 Franklin Garland: So this is moot,what we're discussing the decision everything we're saying. 623 624 Perdita Holtz: Well this the Planning Board meeting and there will be a public hearing before the Board of County 625 Commissioners at a future date. 626 627 Franklin Garland: It's my understanding, and everybody that has spoken so far that this was in fact an information 628 meeting with the Commissioners present and once again it seems to me that the Planning Board is trying to sweep 629 everything under that rug. Ok, again pulling the wool in front of our eyes. Big questions for you guys, there is the 630 Research Triangle Logistic Park Company out there Terra Equity did a presentation for a hand full of people because 631 nobody else was notified and Planning Board has made it a point of not notifying all the people that really get 632 involved but just the ones that are in contact with the property. Ok, so sort of devious, ok because there are, like 1 633 said, thousands of people that get affected by this not just the 12 parcels around it. However, big big question, we 634 did have an informational meeting on July 15'h I believe it was and they said it was going to create 4500 jobs. The 635 same argument used by the planning that was going to create this jobs for from Northern Orange County. So, this 636 was with Summit Corporation. If we have 4500 new jobs out here and that are being created for the people who live 637 in Northern Orange County, that means we're going to have approximately 4500 cars coming through Hillsborough 638 additional to the traffic that is a mess already there, in the morning and those cars are going to be returning in the 639 afternoon ok. I don't think that is exactly good planning by the way. I mean we really need a different way other than 640 Churton to get through Hillsborough and that's never going to happen but let's go ahead and double the traffic out 641 there. 4600 people that almost the population of Hillsborough that you actually adding to the traffic conditions out 642 there ok. I don't know if you guys have considered that apparently not because certainly that would require putting in 643 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 644 money to convert the roads at this one and to the work and Hillsborough doesn't either ok. I also, actually good 645 question out here, everything we got pretty much blindsided with Summit and it got approved. I will ask someone 646 who is in the know, Summit got approved pretty much they just blew us away and said we're going to do whatever we 647 want anyhow and you did and then they pulled out. Why did they pull out,when did they pull out,what did Terra offer 648 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 649 informed that this all had happened? Any care to comment on that, it is planning, this is you know obviously 650 somebody planned Summit and decided to get out of it. Somebody now trying to just pull another one over us. 1 651 wouldn't mind if Mr. Harvey or Mr. Benedict answered this one cause apparently they're the one in charge of this and 652 1 hope they're present because they are the planning commission and if they're not there why are we even having 653 this meeting? 654 655 Craig Benedict: I can give you a brief answer; we will provide something in writing. The developer of Settler's Point 656 received approval in January 2018. At times, developers do not stay with the project and we are not privy to why they 657 left the project, cease to exist. Another project did pick that up. 658 659 Franklin Garland: Have you seen the damage they did back there already? And the wildlife that the displaced? 1 660 mean they literally raised it and then abandoned it. 661 662 David Blankfard: I think that was the tornado. 663 664 Franklin Garland: No, no, no, no, no, no we're talking about 90 + acres that are devastated back there not tornados. 665 Raised, cut down and raised and leveled with grading already having started on it. I am just curious why they pulled 666 out. It seems like you guys would know. There would be some agreement that there have to do it since they went