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May 26, 2020 <br />Chuck Edwards, PE <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />Reference: Hillsborough Industrial Development TIA, Orange County, NC <br /> <br /> <br />APPROVED DEVELOPMENT TRAFFIC <br />The Settler’s Pointe TIA included trips from the Waterstone Development; located on Waterstone Drive in <br />Hillsborough, NC. The 2020 No-Build Adjacent Development Volumes Figure is attached to this letter. In <br />addition to this, NCDOT District staff have indicated that 100,000 SF expansion of the UNC Hospital <br />Campus has been approved; although no traffic study was performed. <br />Further review of the approved development traffic from the Settler’s Pointe TIA indicate that 341,912 <br />square feet of hospital were constructed. The approved development traffic associated with the hospital <br />land use was then the difference between 810,000 SF and 341,912 SF of hospital as noted in the <br />Waterstone: Lots 9-11 TIA (Kimley-Horn and Associates). A review of available news articles (News and <br />Observer, Durham Herald-Sun) indicate that the hospital expansion was included in the original campus <br />plan and is accounted for in the approved development traffic in the original Settler’s Pointe TIA. A page <br />from the Waterstone: Lots 9-11 TIA, taken from the Settler’s Pointe TIA, detailing the trip generation is <br />included as an attachment. <br />Capacity analysis is based off-of the existing (i.e. 2020) roadway geometry. Accordingly, no <br />improvements associated with these approved developments will be included in the study. <br />STIP PROJECTS <br />Two projects are planned within the study area. Those are U-5845 (Churton Street Widening) and I- <br />3306A (I-40 Widening). The traffic forecast for I-3306A was revised in July 2019 and states that <br />Assumptions and changes in the distribution of population and employment in the forecast study area are <br />implicit in the Triangle Regional Model (TRMv6) that was updated in May of 2019. The rezoning for <br />Settler’s Pointe occurred on January 23, 2018. Therefore, the zoning of this project was included and <br />therefore the development was accounted for in the traffic forecast. <br />Please feel free to contact me regarding any information presented in the Scoping Forms or in this letter. <br />Regards, <br />Stantec <br />Matt Peach, PE, PTOE <br />Senior Transportation Engineer <br />Phone: 919-865-7375 <br />Matt.Peach@stantec.com <br />Attachment: 2016 Existing Peak Hour Volumes Figure (Settler’s Pointe TIA), <br /> Adjacent Development Volumes Figure (Settler’s Pointe TIA), <br /> Waterstone: Lots 9-11 TIA Trip Generation <br />182