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Approved 9/2/2020 1444 Perdita Holtz: David as you can see there are 12 people with their hands up and it now 11 p.m. I don't know if there 1445 wants to be any discussion among the Planning Board on how to handle the rest of the meeting, what some options 1446 might be. 1447 1448 Hunter Spitzer: I do recall that Michael had some comments that he wanted to make pertaining to us making 1449 recommendation. So I would like to hear those at the very least before we move forward. 1450 1451 Michael Harvey: As I indicated, your abstract had suggested that the Board, if they felt comfortable, make a 1452 recommendation in time for the County Commissioner's September 15th hearing. Obviously the applicant will also 1453 need to weigh in on this. As I see it, there's a couple of different options and scenarios here. Through no fault of the 1454 applicant, we got comments from the Department of Transportation on this project Friday, July 31s'and again that is 1455 not anything that staff or the applicant could control. The applicant has responded to the Department of 1456 Transportation and we are waiting for a response to those comments. We've heard tonight from Planning Board 1457 members related to potential conditions that you all would to see vetted before you make a final decision. We have 1458 obviously heard some comments from the public and there's going to be some additional comments as we continue 1459 discussion. 1460 1461 So as I see it the Board technically has a couple of options. The Board could table any decision providing the 1462 applicant with areas of specific focus that they want answers to, I've heard loud and clear and in my note the primary 1463 concerns is traffic impact and more review of the DOT comments and the applicants responses and what DOT says 1464 to some of the traffic concerns I've heard. So you could certainly delay any decision til or table the item until your next 1465 regular meeting, which would be September 2°d to wait for that information. Craig and I have had a texting 1466 discussion about this very topic over the last hour, you could identify areas where you have less concerns or you are 1467 satisfied with the conditions and the applicant's responses and identify specific conditions you'd like to see fleshed 1468 out, you could adjourn this meeting to a date and time certain in a couple of weeks conceivably to revisit this 1469 discussion or the Board could vote either to make a recommendation to approve or make a recommendation to deny 1470 this evening. 1471 1472 I'm not trying to say you don't have any of those options but staff was going to recommend was that we're still waiting 1473 on DOT to get us some documentation as is the applicant and hearing some of the discussion tonight, I think that 1474 there is a comfort level lacking with the transportation component from staff, the applicant who is waiting on DOT and 1475 you all and that might need some discussion. Whatever you all's decision is, I would like to strongly urge you to 1476 identify any specific areas of concern be it traffic, be it alternative energy conditions, whatnot so that the applicant 1477 and staff have a clear understanding of what we need to be working on in the interim to provide you the feedback 1478 you're asking for so you can make an informed decision. If that makes sense and thank you Hunter for asking. 1479 1480 David Blankfard: So what does everybody have a concern with? 1481 1482 Adam Beeman: My biggest concern is I want to see whatever the DOT is come to them with and determine whatever 1483 steps necessary to rectify, my biggest concern is coming off of the highway and right there at the highway. I am not 1484 so concerned as Davis Road as much as the highway but that's all part of the study so I'd like to see what DOT's 1485 response was. 1486 1487 Hunter Spitzer: I would like the applicant to consider removing access to Davis Road as they move forward with the 1488 process cause I suspect that we will probably vote to delay at least until our Planning Board meeting and potentially 1489 until we, until you end negotiations with the DOT. Conditionally, I would like a more concise proposal on electrical 1490 vehicle charging. I will just put the number out there at 1 station per 100.000 square feet of space to be built. Those 1491 are my largest concerns at the moment. 1492 1493 Michael Harvey: Chair Blankfard, if I could interject quickly. I'm sorry I know that Ms. Poole lost her internet access if 1494 1 recall what Perdita said. One of her concerns was more specificity in land uses. In terms of what would fall into this 1495 categories and what would not. At least that's what I have in my notes. 1496 1497 Hunter Spitzer: If I may say one more thing, particularly to the residents that are listening. A lot of what we've been 1498 doing over the past hour has been talking about conditions that we would like to request from the developer, that's 1499 the nice part about this master planning conditional zoning is that we can ask for certain conditions to be met and so