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Approved 9/2/2020 1169 waiting to happen if this plan goes forth as presently constructed. A red light is going to do little more than to cause 1170 those cars to slam on their brakes and cause bigger issues. I say all this to reaffirm my opposition to this plan as 1171 currently proposed. It makes no sense from an infrastructure standpoint to utilize Davis Road purely more that out of 1172 necessity or that portion of Old 86 for heavy truck traffic. Unless this can be remedied and a more logical solution 1173 can be found, I urge the member of the Planning Commission to deny this proposal. Please help to protect my family 1174 and my neighbors.Thank you. 1175 1176 Beth Rosenberg: Thank you for taking the time to listen to all of us. I know it gets old for you after a while but I think 1177 listening to our concerns and some of our suggestions should prove valuable. I just have a few points to make,first 1178 is that although the Rural Buffer portion of that Davis Road property is supposedly going to be left to be wild land or 1179 whatever, all the traffic from this development now will be exiting onto Davis Road and going through a Rural Buffer 1180 area which seems counter to the purpose of that zoning designation. Another point I want to make is that Mr. 1181 Beeman mentioned that he drove Davis Road and Old 86 and the service road, if that was any time after February or 1182 March of this year, it was during the pandemic and the traffic has admittedly been much less during that time even 1183 through this current period of time because there's no school traffic currently. Next point is that reading through the 1184 LIDO, the purpose of the MPD-CZ zoning is to provide economical and efficient use of land,efficient land use, 1185 improve level of amenities, appropriate and harmonious variety, creative design and a better environment and I don't 1186 see where this project is likely to provide any of that for us. I, like everybody else tonight, urge you to not approve 1187 this plan and not sent it forward to the Board of Commissioners. Thank you for your time. 1188 1189 Declan Cambey: My name is Declan Cambey, I'm 18 years old and I've lived in Hillsborough my whole life. I've 1190 grown to know all my neighbors, have usual and local restaurants and I've walked down the Riverwalk with friends or 1191 into the new Orange County library to checkout anew book probably 100s of times. Now both the Riverwalk and the 1192 new library and the development with Paw at the Corner and Whit's Frozen Custard, these have all greatly improved 1193 my quality of life so I'm all for development that can benefits the members of this community of this town. But from 1194 what I've read and what I've heard today this proposal for Research Triangle Logistics Park will actively hinder the 1195 quality of life for Hillsborough natives by increasing traffic, noise and pollution while simultaneously destroying 1196 precious green space along Davis Road and along Old NC Hwy. 86 which is a designated scenic byway and houses 1197 many cyclists as has been mentioned. Now I know the applicant team has brought many experts to try to address all 1198 of our concerns but that doesn't change the fact that this is not what our community wants. I found out about this 1199 meeting on Instagram and this account has 50 followers mostly young folks like myself that I went to school with at 1200 Cedar Ridge. The Facebook group against this industrial park has 386 members and there have been thousands of 1201 signatures on the petition that has been mentioned earlier. On another note, the possibility of jobs is not the promise 1202 of jobs. As has been mentioned, these developers have not shared any companies or agencies that will set up shop 1203 in this research park. Also,when many traditional jobs are transitioning online why are we investing in warehouse 1204 space that could just be bought over by large companies like UPS and Amazon,this is not a necessary project right 1205 now and I call on the Planning Board to reject its proposal. As a young person, I speak for all future generations that 1206 will suffer if this project is approved. Thank you. 1207 1208 Rebecca Drapp: I live off NC Hwy 86. 1 moved to Hillsborough like others have said for the community aspect of it. 1 1209 feel like this is going to destroy our community for all the reasons other people have said,decreasing property values 1210 even when they were given that presentation they couldn't guarantee that this would raise the property values. 1 1211 worry about the quality of life for everyone with the trucks with the big industry. I think the charm of Hillsborough is 1212 the very rural, local businesses that is how we make our community better. That's according to local businesses and 1213 reinvesting in small places and it sounds like this is just going to be a big warehouse where, I don't even know if it's 1214 going to have good quality jobs. I'll cede because it's late,thank you for listening. I just wanted to voice my dissent to 1215 this project. 1216 1217 Jeb Kelly: I live off Davis Drive, a couple things I wanted to point out that haven't been mentioned,the developer in 1218 their pitch tonight referenced the 40-year history of planned development here. I don't think that 40 years included 1219 routing 90%of the traffic onto Davis Drive. In Ms. Greene's presentation, she referenced the amount of traffic 1220 coming onto Davis Drive as approximately 1600 vehicles a day, I went back and reviewed the TIA from the DOT and 1221 they estimated over 3600 vehicles a day, 90% of that would be about 3100. 1 think we deserve a little more of an 1222 explanation on the discrepancy there. Ms. Greene also in her own words, mentioned that people will tend to find a 1223 different route of willing to drive further when traffic backs up and that's exactly our concern. When traffic backs up at 1224 that exchange of 86 and 40, regardless of the signage,they're going to be looking for other routes,they're going to