Agenda - 10-06-20; 6-c - Zoning Atlas Amendment – Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning District (MPD-CZ) for the Research Triangle Logistics Park (RTLP)

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hard for us to articulate an objective standard but just to answer your question more broadly, I think yes we will try to 332 mitigate that but it’s hard for me to think of an objective standard that we could apply as a condition. 333 334 Melissa Poole: So you don’t have actual companies going into this location into this space yet, is that correct? 335 336 Michael Birch: That’s correct. 337 338 Melissa Poole: Ok, so if you’re looking at manufacturing and possibly laboratory and research are you looking at that 339 they would have the ability to operate multiple shifts? 340 341 Michael Birch: Yes, potentially a building user could have multiple shifts that is correct? 342 343 Melissa Poole: So, back to, I want to jump back to just to a moment to David, when he talking about particularly the 344 residents most closely situated towards the lines, I mean I guess my question is how can you guarantee this will not 345 disrupt their life if you are running multiple shifts. That’s 24 hours, could be 7 days a week 24 hours and you don’t 346 know what kind of businesses are going in there. 347 348 Michael Birch: Right but they are indoor activity in these buildings. In terms of like the primary use is inside, again 349 building setbacks, vegetative buffers around the perimeter, and I mentioned earlier, those distances between just our 350 property line in some of the closer structure to our west from the larger parcel over 1100 feet. To our south from that 351 larger parcel over 800/900 feet so I think we are well buffered on the subject property but also a lot of the lots that 352 surround us are deep lots with the houses situated far from the common boundary line. 353 354 David Blankfard: Can you have the traffic engineer explain what is going on at Davis Drive and Old 86. Specifically, 355 what the current traffic is and then when this is functioning what happens what will the new traffic pattern be. 356 357 Matt Peach: Thank you, appreciate the question. Obviously, we recommended a traffic signal there at that location 358 and I believe was touched on previously in the presentation but what we were concerned with at the intersection of 359 Davis Road and Old NC 86, quite frankly, is sight distance. What our concern was traffic coming along Davis Road 360 coming to a stop and being able to see in both direction down Old NC 86 for a sufficient distance to allow them to 361 turn safely onto Old NC 86 to make sure there is a sufficient gap in traffic. We didn’t feel that it was there in terms of 362 site distance so we had recommended a traffic signal to that end in addition to helping facilitate movement to and 363 from the site. In terms of traffic today, we had full traffic counts. Currently on Davis Road at Old NC 86 there’s about 364 170 cars along Davis Road in the morning peak hour. In the evening peak hour there is roughly 91 cars coming 365 along Davis trying to turn onto Old NC 86. On Old NC 86 there’s a 300 northbound cars approximately in the 366 morning and this is consistent with the evening rush hour southbound is similar about 300 in the morning and 367 evening rush hour. 368 369 David Blankfard: That’s current? 370 371 Matt Peach: That’s correct. 372 373 Hunter Spitzer: I have a question for the County staff; does the Town’s sewer line currently follow along Cate’s 374 Creek? Both sewer and water connections? 375 376 Craig Benedict: I can answer that, yes the sewer line is known as the Cate’s Creek outfall and it would roughly follow 377 those elevation changes flowing to the north. The water doesn’t have to follow the topography and it would be along 378 the service road and there is an existing 16 inch water main on Old 86 now at Davis Road all the way into 379 Hillsborough and there is actually an emergency interconnect all the way down Old 86 to the Orange Water and 380 Sewer Authority facility. The Old 86 line is in operation with the Town of Hillsborough now and it would be those two 381 areas, Old 86, service road and then some sort of loop through the project would be likely with the final engineering. 382 383 Hunter Spitzer: I was thinking less about water and sewer and more along the lines of co-locating some sort of 384 pedestrian trail but then I remembered that you have to build a bridge over I-40, which would probably border on 385 impossible. Maybe that should be a development …. If they are planning on redoing 40 in this area anyway which I 386 think is the case. Ah, maybe we should see if the developer will build us a bridge, what do you say guys? 387 11