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Approved 9/2/2020 443 Christa Greene: Yes,that's how the traffic study was done so this would assume the offsite improvement would be 444 done before the site opens. 445 446 Adam Beeman: I went through a lot of the email that residents have sent and I picked out a few questions that 447 maybe you could answer for me that may help some of these residents get an actual answer from you. Some were 448 random that were different than most everything. One was how do you plan to mitigate the construction traffic during 449 the build out,what's the plan for that? 450 451 Michael Birch: Construction traffic will use predominately utilize the service road. 452 453 Adam Beeman: Another theme that kept popping up was how many home will be destroyed in order to put these 454 building up and how many people will be displaced from their homes? 455 456 Michael Birch: Zero. 457 458 Adam Beeman: Thank you, one of the questions was is there a plan to mitigate crime if any, some people seem to 459 think that with this project you're going to draw some questionable behavior from others. 460 461 Michael Birch: I would say,first of all the folks coming to this site are coming to work. They are coming to work just 462 like you go to work every day, like I go to work every day,with the thought that they're going to put in their time and 463 go back to their family. We're not anticipating and if you look at your typical office parks where people go to work, or 464 even similar industrial establishments,you don't see crime like you might think of with a more retail focus, shopping 465 center focus type of development. It's an internally focused site and we don't anticipate any crime issues. 466 467 Adam Beeman: The last question I have, is the developer footing the bill for the water and sewer expansion and any 468 electrical power expansions? 469 470 Craig Benedict: Let me handle one part of that question. Orange County has a capital improvement program since 471 2013 to extend the sewer underneath the interstate. That was long before this development was there and will 472 continue to provide that design to get the sewer under the interstate. That's one element but on site the County 473 would not be doing something specifically for the project just to get the sewer and water underneath the interstate 474 and up and down the service road. 475 476 Melissa Poole: To go with what Adam was speaking, a recurring theme throughout the emails and contact were, and 477 1 think it's been addressed but let's touch on it again,for all of the residents with the surrounding homes, how will 478 their property values be impacted? Positively or negatively? 479 480 Michael Birch: A couple of items on that question,first many of the homes in the surrounding area, particularly those 481 that are along NC 86 are already commercially zoned and so we expect positive impact to their property values that 482 there is now a commercial development that is a going concern that creates a catalyst in the area. Second,the 483 extension of utilities to extend if there's ever a need for an emergency extension or anything else it can be a benefit 484 to the area. Third,the perimeter buffer, the height limitations,the architectural controls,the other aspects of the 50 485 plus conditions that have been agreed to as part of the project are all intended to mitigate impacts on adjourning 486 properties and that includes on the value. One of the items identified early on was in issue with the flushing of water 487 and that water line, that as a result of our loop system will be improved. That's another benefit to the area. As well 488 as improved transportation infrastructure and signals. 489 490 Kim Piracci: I may have missed something because I didn't see the emails; I appreciate Ms. Greene's efforts to 491 educate us on transportation, architecture or transportation. However, I don't know if I'm missing out or slow but 1 492 feel like the little maps you showed us,which for me are like an inch big. I feel like I would like to get a big picture,the 493 85 the 40, Davis Road,the on-ramps. I would like to see the whole map what you're proposing that the 494 transportation flow would look like. I can't put it together. I get there is going to be a red light at Davis and 86. 495 496 Christa Greene: This is run through some special software but I have those if there is a certain area I can blow it up 497 bigger. We've done level of service charts that were in the traffic studies too that I would be happy to run one of