Agenda - 09-15-20; 5-a - Zoning Atlas Amendment - Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning District (MPD-CZ) for the Research Triangle Logistics Park (RTLP)

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DRAFT 472 666 expediency but I can't and will not tell you that I can guarantee that within two weeks we'll have an answer. I can't 667 guarantee that within two weeks we'll have an answer. But I think it's reasonable for us to try if the Board sees fit to 668 adjourn to at date and time certain in two weeks. We'll do the best we can to address this concern as best we can 669 and I know so will the applicant but I do think it's also important for me to make clear one think to the Board. It's been 670 sort of danced around but I think it's important to say it. One of the, this same issue came up with Settler's Point, the 671 Department of Transportation is not satisfied with the current condition of service road which parallels (Interstate)40 672 and they had requested or indicated that in order for Settler's Point to be developed they had to have secondary 673 means of ingress/egress. At Settler's Point chose to try and secure access off Old NC Hwy 86 directly. That was a 674 gamble they took and unfortunately it didn't pay off at the time they had the approval they couldn't negotiate an 675 access point. I know that this applicant has looked for alternative access points and I'm not telling you this to say, it's 676 a fait accompli, but I'm telling you this that one of the reasons there's two access points is because DOT has 677 mandated it from day one. This applicant is obviously proposing Davis Road there's obviously concerns about that 678 and there's request for more information and that needs to be processed to move forward but I think the Board just 679 needs to be put back in the loop that the reason there's two is because DOT is mandating it. 680 681 Michael Birch: This is Michael Birch, the applicant just to reiterate on the timing of DOT responses. We will hound 682 them as best we can to get responses so we can this resolved in advance of a possible meeting on the 19tn 683 684 Randy Marshall: I'm not sure we are going to continue to be productive tonight so I'd like to make a recommendation 685 that we adjourn or postpone or continue the meeting until two weeks from tonight at 7 p.m. 686 687 Hunter Spitzer: Seconded. 688 689 Adam Beeman: I vote going ahead and solving the problem tonight if anybody else is ready to vote. I'm ready to 690 vote. I'm got my choices made so if everybody else wants to shelve it that's fine but I'm ready to move forward 691 tonight. 692 693 Kim Piracci: I would like to postpone voting but to me it doesn't make sense to meet in two weeks if we haven't 694 heard from the DOT though it could be a conditional two weeks from tonight sort of thing. 695 696 Michael Harvey: Kim, let me just interject that it unfortunately can't be conditional you are going to be adjourning to a 697 date and time certain so there will be a meeting if you all elect to do it this way on the 191h and if we don't have the 698 response unfortunately we don't have the response and I hate to say it that way but it's the truth. The two options 699 you have are to adjourn this meeting matter or table this matter until the September meeting which obviously the 700 applicant I know has a concern with or to say you're going to attempt to do a special meeting on the 191h. If there's 701 Board consensus to try that and we don't have answers, we don't have answers. That's the unfortunately blunt way 702 I'm going to have to put it to you. 703 704 Randy Marshall: Part of my thinking was that we still have a number of people who wanted to address this some of 705 them we may have already have heard from and understand what their positions are but there may be others that 706 we've not heard from at all and I'm not sure we want to start listening to them at this late time. The other things is 707 we've not been able to address the DOT issues and nothing may change as Michael suggests in two weeks but at 708 least in two weeks we will have a little bit more information and can get a little bit more input from the public and 709 make an informed decision at that time. I can vote tonight, I know where I stand but I just want to make sure that 710 everybody feels like they've had enough opportunity to get all the information they need or to provide all the 711 information they need. 712 713 David Blankfard: I think that we should postpone it to the 191h. I guess we'll have to have a motion again. But we'll 714 wait and until the 191h we can listen to more of the constituents, the public right because they were saying they were 715 not notified this will give them more time to rally their forces and then if the DOT isn't there, we'll just listen to the 716 public and if the DOT we can finish it then and there. 717 718 Craig Benedict: Perdita how many people do you have still want to speak tonight? 719 720 Perdita Holtz: There are 14 people that have their hands raised. 721