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Approved 9/2/2020 1390 that enough. If it's impossible to get out of my driveway with 300 cars during rush hour as the traffic engineer 1391 mentioned and you double that it means cars are going to be coming by my driveway every 5 to 6 seconds, 18 1392 wheels are going to be coming by every 5 to 6 seconds. That will literally make my property worthless because I 1393 won't be able to access my own home anymore I won't be able to get to work or I'll have to stay in my travel lane for 1 1394 don't even know how long to try to get in and out. There's a preschool right down the road, there's a preschool by 1395 the corner of Davis and Old 86. 1 can't imagine trying to be a parent to drop off my 3 or 4 year old there when there's 1396 18-wheelers coming by every 10 seconds or 5 seconds. Just imagine the traffic trying to turn in and out of the 1397 preschool in the morning. To the previous gentleman's quoting, we aren't opposed to development but this is the 1398 absolutely wrong thing for this area. I can't emphasize that enough this is a residential area. In the 1980s when this 1399 plan was originally developed, my house was a cow pasture so sure put a warehouse there it doesn't matter to them 1400 but things have changed dramatically, it doesn't make sense to have this development here any longer so Planning 1401 Board please hear me I'm begging you, oppose this. Please don't make my family collateral damage from this 1402 economic development building. 1403 1404 Jon Lorusso: Hello, it's quite late thank you for giving me a chance to speak. I wrote down a few notes of what I'd 1405 like to say before I get to them I just want to agree with previous speaker this really does come down to a 40 year old 1406 plan that is no longer relevant and yet the Planning Board feels that they need to stick with it because it's on the 1407 books so we might as well, I'm almost tempted to say that there is some kind of conspiracy going on some kickbacks 1408 because there really, this is the Planning Board, you are supposed to plan for the communities and the people who 1409 live here. Not for out of state businesses, not for lawyers in Raleigh this is for the people,you work for us the people 1410 who live here. Yes, the people here need jobs but not at the expense of their fellow citizens, this is absurd. So just 1411 to go through a few points. The traffic engineer mentioned that is would be up to the individual truck drivers whether 1412 or not they took 40 west to get to 85 north that's absurd no one would ever do that. People who live here know that 1413 you wouldn't do that, you are obviously going to take Churton to get 85 north. We've already had, the Planning 1414 Board has a plan in action to extend 70 from Orange Grove because of already existing traffic issues. They already 1415 exist the traffic issues this is going to make it so much worse and yet are we planning or are we reacting. We're going 1416 to allow this to be built and then react later on. We'll figure it out 20 years from now when people are fed up. So,this 1417 neighborhood, one if the improvement that Mr. Birch mentioned was oh we get a traffic signal at the end of Davis 1418 Road and all we have to do it to get it is build a 2.1 million square foot warehouse inside of our neighborhood. Great 1419 thanks a lot thank you for that wonderful improvement. The left only sign coming out of the place onto Davis Road, 1420 are there any laws that, is there going to be a cop stationed there and if they make a right are they subject to a 1421 summons? A ticket? No, it's really just up to the individual driver if they see that the traffic is backed up to the light 1422 on Old 86 you know maybe I'll just make a right and take Orange Grove up or maybe I'll make a left on Orange 1423 Grove and go down to Arthur Minnis, who cares right? Who cares about the people who live here, who cares. 200 1424 vehicles per hour additional on Davis Road that is absurd an average tractor-trailer is 72 feet. How many tractor- 1425 trailers can fit between Old 86 and 1000 foot entrance on Davis Road? I don't know what the math is divide 1000 by 1426 72 it's somewhere around 14. If you have 200 per hour, it sounds to me like it's going to get backed up. It sounds to 1427 me like there's a lot of conjecture, a lot of estimates based on businesses that we don't even know what kind of traffic 1428 they'll have. I think Michael Birch again that the primary use is indoor yet he doesn't actually know what kind of 1429 business is going to be there. How does he know they're going to be indoor? They're asking for approval when 1430 they're still back and forth with NCDOT how can you approve something when thinks haven't even been settled? We 1431 are not talking about little things; we're talking about huge changes. Oh, the traffic is backed up on 40 west, on the 1432 40 east who cares if there's an ambulance that can't get to the hospital, who cares right? It's all at the expense of 1433 business, who cares, who cares if people are backed up on the highway, who cares? I mean this is absurd; it's 1434 absurd that our Planning Board the people who are supposed to plan this are the ones that are selling up the river. 1435 It's crazy. I could expect it from the lawyers in Raleigh who don't care what happens here because they don't live 1436 here. They're going to get this signed and they're done they get their check but from our own Planning Board the 1437 people who are supposed to protect the citizens of this county they are the ones who are selling us up the river. It's 1438 insane, it really is insane. That's all I have to say. 1439 1440 David Blankfard: One thing, did you receive a letter from the planning department? 1441 1442 Jon Lorusso: No I did not. 1443