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Approved 9/2/2020 1278 David Blankfard: One of the comments was, did your, the traffic study was only for a.m. and p.m. was that the high 1279 times?The other times were fewer these were the maximums? 1280 1281 Matt Peach: That's correct, the other hours of the day we're forecasting much less traffic. What NCDOT requires us 1282 to do is basically run the traffic study imagining that a shift change or some other operation were to occur during the 1283 rush hour on the road already. So, kind of trying to get that worst-case scenario, that's what we ended up studying. 1284 We didn't study any of the off-peaks where traffic would be less both at the development and along the roads within 1285 the study area. 1286 1287 David Blankfard: Ok, on this slide that is being shown at the service road there is a right out only so how do the 1288 trucks get to 1-40? 1289 1290 Matt Peach: That's correct. The back and forth that we are currently having with NCDOT right now is NCDOT had 1291 expressed concerns over whether queues at the interchange would extend past the service road and what they had 1292 requested we analyze and those are the numbers I was just quoting you, would be if left turns were prohibited out of 1293 the service road and if that traffic were relocated down to Davis but to get back over to Old NC 86 for that 1000 feet. 1294 That's why you see that right turn there, that was at the request of NCDOT. 1295 1296 David Blankfard: So the trucks leave the service road they take a right on Old 86 they go down to Old 86 and how do 1297 they turn back around? 1298 1299 Matt Peach: So trucks would go through the site,they would exit at Davis go to Old NC 86 that way. 1300 1301 David Blankfard: Ok, so they would go through, ok. They wouldn't be exiting from the service road the trucks would 1302 be diverted towards David Road and then they take a left on Old 86 towards 1-40. 1303 1304 Matt Peach: That's correct. 1305 1306 Melissa Poole: So, with regards to manufacturing and the laboratory, I'm sorry to jump back to this, when we went 1307 through the list of prohibited, and this might be a question for Craig and Michael Harvey, when we went through the 1308 list of prohibited businesses, I did not see like biodefence or anything like that in that list. So, if it doesn't come back 1309 to Planning Board once we go through this and it doesn't go to Board of County Commissioners everything just kind 1310 of goes through. What are the protections for residents, not just nearby but Orange County in general, for things like 1311 insuring biodefence manufacturing in there or biodefence research is going in there? 1312 1313 David Blankfard: I think the building codes, I'm not, hopefully, I'm not speaking out of turn Michael. I think the 1314 building codes would limit the amount of toxic chemicals and based on what is going on there. That would be ... 1315 1316 Melissa Poole: It doesn't have to be chemical, it could be research on Corona, it could be research on, you know, it 1317 doesn't have to emit a toxic chemical. You see what I'm saying? 1318 1319 David Blankfard: Then it wouldn't be lethal, right? If they're just doing research? 1320 1321 Melissa Poole: I have a client in Maryland who's doing the vaccine for COVID and everybody in the company's got 1322 COVID. I'm just telling you. 1323 1324 Michael Harvey: This is Michael Harvey, let me just provide Ms. Poole an answer. The permitted uses that the 1325 applicant put in their narrative are various general land use categories with sample or anticipated uses for 1326 development within the project. The narrative also provides a prohibited use list as well. The direct answer to your 1327 question is if a proposed activity falls into those general uses and is similar to the uses listed, much like the current 1328 County's Table of Permitted Uses, it would be permitted. You could have an activity consistent with research and 1329 development activities that, not to make a judgement call, you may not necessarily find viable as other similar uses 1330 (other research and development activities) but it could be developed within the project because you're allowing 1331 research and development. That goes directly to your example that there may be research and development 1332 activities that you are not comfortable with. We wouldn't have the authority to say no you can't do that as there is no 1333 specific prohibition. David is correct there would be building and other regulatory standards that the applicant would