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388 <br />David Blankfard: I still have a question for the traffic, what is going to be when it’s build out what are the numbers 389 <br />going to be? 390 <br /> 391 <br />Matt Peach: When we put the development in, we’re looking at very little traffic coming from the south on Old NC 86. 392 <br />We’re looking at, we had estimated that being a maximum of 37 vehicle per hour. That’s particularly in the morning 393 <br />and it’s similar for the southbound on Old NC 86, that is a maximum of, we had estimated that at 28 that’s in the 394 <br />evening rush hour. Along Davis Road, since we are directing trucks to turn left out of this site and onto Davis for that 395 <br />short 1000 foot section to get to Old 86, we’re seeing a little bit higher, so we’re looking at staff, 62 in the morning 396 <br />traffic, an additional 62 and up to 200 vehicles per hour in the evening. 397 <br /> 398 <br />David Blankfard: One of the comments was, did your, the traffic study was only for a.m. and p.m. was that the high 399 <br />times? The other times were fewer these were the maximums? 400 <br /> 401 <br />Matt Peach: That’s correct, the other hours of the day we’re forecasting much less traffic. What NCDOT requires us 402 <br />to do is basically run the traffic study imagining that a shift change or some other operation were to occur during the 403 <br />rush hour on the road already. So, kind of trying to get that worst-case scenario, that’s what we ended up studying. 404 <br />We didn’t study any of the off-peaks where traffic would be less both at the development and along the roads within 405 <br />the study area. 406 <br /> 407 <br />David Blankfard: Ok, on this slide that is being shown at the service road there is a right out only so how do the 408 <br />trucks get to I-40? 409 <br /> 410 <br />Matt Peach: That’s correct. The back and forth that we are currently having with NCDOT right now is NCDOT had 411 <br />expressed concerns over whether queues at the interchange would extend past the service road and what they had 412 <br />requested we analyze and those are the numbers I was just quoting you, would be if left turns were prohibited out of 413 <br />the service road and if that traffic were relocated down to Davis but to get back over to Old NC 86 for that 1000 feet. 414 <br />That’s why you see that right turn there, that was at the request of NCDOT. 415 <br /> 416 <br />David Blankfard: So the trucks leave the service road they take a right on Old 86 they go down to Old 86 and how do 417 <br />they turn back around? 418 <br /> 419 <br />Matt Peach: So trucks would go through the site, they would exit at Davis go to Old NC 86 that way. 420 <br /> 421 <br />David Blankfard: Ok, so they would go through, ok. They wouldn’t be exiting from the service road the trucks would 422 <br />be diverted towards David Road and then they take a left on Old 86 towards I-40. 423 <br /> 424 <br />Matt Peach: That’s correct. 425 <br /> 426 <br />Melissa Poole: So, with regards to manufacturing and the laboratory, I’m sorry to jump back to this, when we went 427 <br />through the list of prohibited, and this might be a question for Craig and Michael Harvey, when we went through the 428 <br />list of prohibited businesses, I did not see like biodefence or anything like that in that list. So, if it doesn’t come back 429 <br />to Planning Board once we go through this and it doesn’t go to Board of County Commissioners everything just kind 430 <br />of goes through. What are the protections for residents, not just nearby but Orange County in general, for things like 431 <br />insuring biodefence manufacturing in there or biodefence research is going in there? 432 <br /> 433 <br />David Blankfard: I think the building codes, I’m not, hopefully, I’m not speaking out of turn Michael. I think the 434 <br />building codes would limit the amount of toxic chemicals and based on what is going on there. That would be … 435 <br /> 436 <br />Melissa Poole: It doesn’t have to be chemical, it could be research on Corona, it could be research on, you know, it 437 <br />doesn’t have to emit a toxic chemical. You see what I’m saying? 438 <br /> 439 <br />David Blankfard: Then it wouldn’t be lethal, right? If they’re just doing research? 440 <br /> 441 <br />Melissa Poole: I have a client in Maryland who’s doing the vaccine for COVID and everybody in the company’s got 442 <br />COVID. I’m just telling you. 443 <br />12