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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Approved 9/2/2020 for cars, that’s all just asking too much, how do we know that these things aren’t going to be built and partly build and 334 then left empty. We have to vote on this and not know what your plans are and I appreciate that you don’t have to 335 tell me. I guess I’m just a little irritated that you gave a pretty speech and yet so far you haven’t given anything so 336 that’s all I have no more. 337 338 Michael Birch: I will say, Ms. Piracci, we given over 50 conditions that are a part of the case and that will be the law 339 that governs this property regardless of who owns it or occupies it. I will say that any developer will have to go 340 through the site planning process and with regard to the EV stations, also the buildings, and their use of alternative 341 energy sources, so much of that is driven by individual tenants. The needs for their building and also the types of 342 things that can be in and around their buildings. Some of these might be manufacturing uses, there are things that 343 we aren’t telling you because they are unknown in terms of who the actual end users is going to be. I think that the 344 applicant has attempted to agree to the things as conditions written as a part of the ordinance that it has certainty 345 around and knows about today and can speak with certainty and yes has been reluctant to commit to things that it 346 doesn’t know or can’t know at this point in time. So it’s not a game of hiding the ball, or withholding information but it 347 is a matter of in this rezoning process which is really early in the stage of the development process. We are where 348 we are in terms of what we know. I did just want to make clear that it’s not a matter of us knowing and not telling you. 349 It is us operating with the information that we have. 350 351 Continued presentations from the Applicant/Associates for the RTLP proposal 352 353 Adam Beeman: I have a quick question for you Christa, I have read a lot of responses and maybe you can put to 354 rest. Your peak traffic value is cars, trucks, and all, it’s not a peak of 200 tractor-trailers an hour or am I wrong. I 355 have been reading a lot of numbers and everybody has been throwing around that there’s going to be 300 tractor-356 trailers an hour or 200 tractor-trailers an hour and we are talking about all traffic not just tractor-trailers, correct. 357 358 Christa Greene: Yes, that is all traffic. Also, that is during the one peak hour. I think there was a misconception, 359 someone asked Matt how many vehicles are coming out in an hour and when he answered, 200 some people were 360 like 200 an hour over 24 hours that’s thousands and thousands of trucks. That is not how it’s done. Think about 361 going in and out of your neighborhood, you’ve got more people going out and coming in during the morning and 362 afternoon. There’s a peak time so we have taken one snapshot of the worst time to look at it. We’ve assumed that 363 worst time is occurring at the worst time and it may or may not be. A lot of warehousing, manufacturing work on 364 shifts that purposely don’t line up with the peak hours. 365 366 David Blankfard: You said that the letter grade for Davis Drive and Old 86 was a B, what is the letter grade as it 367 currently stands. 368 369 Christa Greene: It is un-signalized. For an un-signalized intersection if you were to take and average of everything. 370 The eastbound approach today as it stands is a level of service C. 371 372 David Blankfard: So, it’s safe to say that the intersection is going to get better. 373 374 Christa Greene: You’re going to be able to get out easier. You also have a sight distance thing going on there. 375 When you are looking back to the right, I think a signal, even NCDOT acknowledged that when we met with them. 376 Having a signal is going to make it safer for people exiting Davis because they’re going to under a controlled 377 condition. 378 379 David Blankfard: The right turn only at the service road, does that have to happen on Day 1? Under Phase 1 of the 380 buildout? Or can it operate with a left/right turn for a certain amount of time? 381 382 Christa Greene: We did not look at any phasing. 383 384 Melissa Poole: So because it is not phased then the anticipation is when these building are built the traffic light will 385 be there? 386 387 Christa Greene: Yes, that’s how the traffic study was done so this would assume the offsite improvement would be 388 done before the site opens. 389 25