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Approved 9/2/2020 1556 means of ingress/egress. At Settler's Point chose to try and secure access off Old NC Hwy 86 directly. That was a 1557 gamble they took and unfortunately it didn't pay off at the time they had the approval they couldn't negotiate an 1558 access point. I know that this applicant has looked for alternative access points and I'm not telling you this to say, it's 1559 a fait accompli, but I'm telling you this that one of the reasons there's two access points is because DOT has 1560 mandated it from day one. This applicant is obviously proposing Davis Road there's obviously concerns about that 1561 and there's request for more information and that needs to be processed to move forward but I think the Board just 1562 needs to be put back in the loop that the reason there's two is because DOT is mandating it. 1563 1564 Michael Birch: This is Michael Birch, the applicant just to reiterate on the timing of DOT responses. We will hound 1565 them as best we can to get responses so we can this resolved in advance of a possible meeting on the 191h. 1566 1567 Randy Marshall: I'm not sure we are going to continue to be productive tonight so I'd like to make a recommendation 1568 that we adjourn or postpone or continue the meeting until two weeks from tonight at 7 p.m. 1569 1570 Hunter Spitzer: Seconded. 1571 1572 Adam Beeman: I vote going ahead and solving the problem tonight if anybody else is ready to vote. I'm ready to 1573 vote. I'm got my choices made so if everybody else wants to shelve it that's fine but I'm ready to move forward 1574 tonight. 1575 1576 Kim Piracci: I would like to postpone voting but to me it doesn't make sense to meet in two weeks if we haven't 1577 heard from the DOT though it could be a conditional two weeks from tonight sort of thing. 1578 1579 Michael Harvey: Kim, let me just interject that it unfortunately can't be conditional you are going to be adjourning to a 1580 date and time certain so there will be a meeting if you all elect to do it this way on the 19th and if we don't have the 1581 response unfortunately we don't have the response and I hate to say it that way but it's the truth. The two options 1582 you have are to adjourn this meeting matter or table this matter until the September meeting which obviously the 1583 applicant I know has a concern with or to say you're going to attempt to do a special meeting on the 19th. If there's 1584 Board consensus to try that and we don't have answers, we don't have answers. That's the unfortunately blunt way 1585 I'm going to have to put it to you. 1586 1587 Randy Marshall: Part of my thinking was that we still have a number of people who wanted to address this some of 1588 them we may have already have heard from and understand what their positions are but there may be others that 1589 we've not heard from at all and I'm not sure we want to start listening to them at this late time. The other things is 1590 we've not been able to address the DOT issues and nothing may change as Michael suggests in two weeks but at 1591 least in two weeks we will have a little bit more information and can get a little bit more input from the public and 1592 make an informed decision at that time. I can vote tonight, I know where I stand but I just want to make sure that 1593 everybody feels like they've had enough opportunity to get all the information they need or to provide all the 1594 information they need. 1595 1596 David Blankfard: I think that we should postpone it to the 19th. I guess we'll have to have a motion again. But we'll 1597 wait and until the 19th we can listen to more of the constituents, the public right because they were saying they were 1598 not notified this will give them more time to rally their forces and then if the DOT isn't there, we'll just listen to the 1599 public and if the DOT we can finish it then and there. 1600 1601 Craig Benedict: Perdita how many people do you have still want to speak tonight? 1602 1603 Perdita Holtz: There are 14 people that have their hands raised. 1604 1605 Adam Beeman: I have a question if we come back on the 191h and we don't have the information from DOT are we 1606 going to push it out again. 1607 1608 David Blankfard: We'll just listen to the public. 1609 1610 Adam Beeman: I understand that but are we going to push the vote out again or are we going to vote on the 19th? 1611