081920 Spec Planning Board Minutes

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Approved 9/2/2020 553 Michael Birch: Mr. Chair, if I may address your proposed condition. I understand and I know the issue of a driveway 554 on Davis was discussed last time but to be clear, DOT is requiring that cut on Davis. We certainly looked at the 555 possibility of access on 86 but we don't have frontage on 86, if DOT wants to use their power of Eminent Domain to 556 condemn property and provide us access to 86,would approve a driveway permit there,that's great. Forcing a U- 557 turn for those folks that are using the service road then you'll at about 200 U-turns in a peak hours because the 558 majority of the traffic is going north. We have added the condition to do what we can on Davis to install signage 559 prohibiting right hand turns onto Davis and we are installing a signal there at Davis and 86. But we are not in a 560 position to agree to a condition that prohibits access onto Davis. 561 562 David Blankfard:That's fine that is something that the County Commissioners would have to take up. We're only 563 doing recommendations. I understand that creates a challenge for the applicant for future but I think the County 564 residents like their intersection at Davis and Old 86 even though it's dangerous. They prefer it that way. Any other 565 thoughts about my recommendation? 566 567 Melissa Poole: If David's recommendation is not viable can there not be a sign placement coming out stating truck 568 have to turn a certain way so as not to go down Davis. 569 570 David Blankfard: I don't think they would ever turn right on Davis going down Davis. My concern is at that 571 intersection of Davis and Old 86. That's the bottleneck, no truck unless lost would turn right. 572 573 Kim Piracci: I feel like there was discussion of a traffic circle with Settler's Pointe. Wasn't that offered as a solution? 574 575 Christa Greene: A traffic circle would take a tremendous amount of right-of-way that would get out of the existing 576 right-of-way when it was easily handled by a traffic signal with the existing configurations. 577 578 Craig Benedict: If I could also add the 2 roads we're talking about Old 86 is an arterial road and DOT expects a 579 certain amount of traffic on it per day and Davis Road is not a residential road it's call a collector road. DOT does not 580 restrict a collector road to residential traffic. It is allowed mixed traffic with no prohibitions so when the County and 581 NCDOT and the metropolitan planning organization put together what is known as a comprehensive transportation 582 plan, they take a look at these road networks and designate them for a certain amount of traffic to handle the traffic 583 that is on land use plans. Davis Road is designated as a collector road and the traffic studies that have been put 584 together show that there is capacity in that roadway to accommodate this project and the residential traffic that is in 585 the general area. 586 587 David Blankfard: Let's open this up to the public, as a reminder to the public you will have a 3-minute window for 588 your comments. Please rememberjust to add new things, if we've already heard the complaints then please don't 589 repeat them, second is the last time allowed the conversation to become a little personal and not professional so 1 590 want to remind everyone to be polite to one another. If that can't happen, I will mute you. 591 592 Stephen Williams: I just want to take to thank the Planning Board members here. It's been nice to be able to see 593 you on camera and to see the ones who are paying attention to what's going on and those who are distracted by 594 other things. I really appreciate the ones who have been involved and asked questions rather than just voting. 595 Taking a vote and saying yes or no. It is nice to know that some people are concerned. I wanted to point out that 1 596 didn't realize there was a sales pitch on the agenda by the Barrister Corporation. I also want to point out that I don't 597 have time to tell you my life story, education unfortunately like Ms. Greene did, I have 3 minutes. First, I wanted to 598 say something about the map that the representative from Barrister shared with the stars on it about residences. 599 One of those stars where he says no one is building or no one lives. I am currently building, I just broke ground on a 600 new house last week. The star next to me, someone else just bought that property to build a house, not a 601 corporation. I want you to consider a Walmart 100 feet from your house and tell me would you be okay with that. 602 The closest building to a residence is 100 feet. That is the distance you're supposed to stop behind a school bus, 603 legally, 100 feet. Would you want your kid in that back yard? Would you want your mom in that back yard? Your 604 elderly parent? I really want you to consider that. Also, I want to applaud Ms. Piracci. She made it pretty clear,we 605 don't know what's going in these buildings but they do. No one builds 2.5 million sq.ft. at one time without knowing 606 the tenants. That is a poor business decision so I find it very hard to believe that they don't know. They don't have to 607 tell us, no legally, they don't but they know. They absolutely know who's going in there. The other thing I want to 608 point out is that it's not the traffic I'm worried about, it's not the cars, it's not trucks, its 18 wheelers that are going in