Agenda - 10-06-20; 8-a - Minutes

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2 1 a. Matters not on the Printed Agenda 2 3 Chair Rich asked if Board members wanted to hear from all speakers, or from only the 4 first 20 speakers, due to the hour time constraint. 5 The Board unanimously signaled to allow all 29 speakers the time to speak, regardless 6 of the time overage. 7 Jessica Sheffield thanked the BOCC for allowing her to speak. She said she is the Eno 8 River Association (ERA) Executive Director, and thanked the Board for its capital investment. 9 She asked if the Board would continue to maintain funds for ERA in the future years of the 10 Capital Investment Plan (CIP). She said the ERA works to protect good environmental 11 stewardship in the Eno River watershed. She said ERA has great concerns about the proposed 12 Research Triangle Logistics Park, as it will not protect water quality, and quantity, of Cates 13 Creek and the Eno River. She said 6 acres of the 161-acre proposed project have been 14 designated by the State as Natural Heritage Natural area, and the current plan goes over this 15 land. 16 Chair Rich said the Commissioners have not received this project yet, and it is set to 17 come before the Board of County Commissioners on September 15th from the Planning 18 Department. 19 20 Ronald Sieber read the following comments: 21 My name is Ronald Sieber, and I live in the New Hope Springs neighborhood off of Davis Road. 22 1 live approximately 1 3/4 miles away from the proposed RTLP project, about which I am 23 addressing you tonight. I mention this mileage figure because that cited distance triggered an 24 offhand comment from a Planning Board member at their August 5th meeting which implied that 25 the citizen who was speaking at that time lived too far away from the project to be affected by it. 26 1 am here to assert that ALL of the people who live along Ode Turner Rd. and Davis Rd. use 27 Davis at its intersection with Old NC Hwy. 86 as an entrance/exit to our homes. We will ALL be 28 affected by this project that threatens our rural neighborhoods. 29 I've written several letters about this and other matters related to the process by which decisions 30 so far have been made and how those decisions will affect both the community of which 1 31 speak, as well as the surrounding communities all along Old NC Hwy. 86, because all 32 communities will likely be affected. 33 Although I write as an individual, I am a member of my local neighborhood as well as the larger 34 community of Hillsborough and Orange County. I have listened to what others have said about 35 this issue, and therefore, many of my concerns reflect what others have also voiced. Therefore, 36 in this manner I am speaking for a much larger group than myself alone. And we are all of one 37 mind on this issue: the proposed project is too oversized in its present state and amendments to 38 land use should not be approved that would allow it go forward as proposed. 39 1 ask that the Board of County Commissioners read the concerns expressed in the letters that 1 40 have written, and I implore each commissioner to consider the ramifications of their decisions 41 yet to be made. 42 Thank you for your time. I look forward to the public hearing on September 15th 43 Joan Kalnitsky thanked the BOCC for taking the time to hear from the public. She said 44 she is opposed to the research triangle park redistrict. She said she has written to the BOCC 45 and will do so again prior to the September 15 meeting. She said Davis Road was not built to 46 hand the RTLP, as there are no shoulders and no sidewalks. She said the County allowed 47 Davis Road to be developed as a quiet neighborhood road. She said it is really difficult to wrap 48 her head around the proposed building capacity of 950,000 square feet on an immediate access