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 turn for those folks that are using the service road then you’ll at about 200 U-turns in a peak hours because the 502 majority of the traffic is going north. We have added the condition to do what we can on Davis to install signage 503 prohibiting right hand turns onto Davis and we are installing a signal there at Davis and 86. But we are not in a 504 position to agree to a condition that prohibits access onto Davis. 505 506 David Blankfard: That’s fine that is something that the County Commissioners would have to take up. We’re only 507 doing recommendations. I understand that creates a challenge for the applicant for future but I think the County 508 residents like their intersection at Davis and Old 86 even though it’s dangerous. They prefer it that way. Any other 509 thoughts about my recommendation? 510 511 Melissa Poole: If David’s recommendation is not viable can there not be a sign placement coming out stating truck 512 have to turn a certain way so as not to go down Davis. 513 514 David Blankfard: I don’t think they would ever turn right on Davis going down Davis. My concern is at that 515 intersection of Davis and Old 86. That’s the bottleneck, no truck unless lost would turn right. 516 517 Kim Piracci: I feel like there was discussion of a traffic circle with Settler’s Pointe. Wasn’t that offered as a solution? 518 519 Christa Greene: A traffic circle would take a tremendous amount of right-of-way that would get out of the existing 520 right-of-way when it was easily handled by a traffic signal with the existing configurations. 521 522 Craig Benedict: If I could also add the 2 roads we’re talking about Old 86 is an arterial road and DOT expects a 523 certain amount of traffic on it per day and Davis Road is not a residential road it’s call a collector road. DOT does not 524 restrict a collector road to residential traffic. It is allowed mixed traffic with no prohibitions so when the County and 525 NCDOT and the metropolitan planning organization put together what is known as a comprehensive transportation 526 plan, they take a look at these road networks and designate them for a certain amount of traffic to handle the traffic 527 that is on land use plans. Davis Road is designated as a collector road and the traffic studies that have been put 528 together show that there is capacity in that roadway to accommodate this project and the residential traffic that is in 529 the general area. 530 531 David Blankfard: Let’s open this up to the public, as a reminder to the public you will have a 3-minute window for 532 your comments. Please remember just to add new things, if we’ve already heard the complaints then please don’t 533 repeat them, second is the last time allowed the conversation to become a little personal and not professional so I 534 want to remind everyone to be polite to one another. If that can’t happen, I will mute you. 535 536 Stephen Williams: I just want to take to thank the Planning Board members here. It’s been nice to be able to see 537 you on camera and to see the ones who are paying attention to what’s going on and those who are distracted by 538 other things. I really appreciate the ones who have been involved and asked questions rather than just voting. 539 Taking a vote and saying yes or no. It is nice to know that some people are concerned. I wanted to point out that I 540 didn’t realize there was a sales pitch on the agenda by the Barrister Corporation. I also want to point out that I don’t 541 have time to tell you my life story, education unfortunately like Ms. Greene did, I have 3 minutes. First, I wanted to 542 say something about the map that the representative from Barrister shared with the stars on it about residences. 543 One of those stars where he says no one is building or no one lives. I am currently building, I just broke ground on a 544 new house last week. The star next to me, someone else just bought that property to build a house, not a 545 corporation. I want you to consider a Walmart 100 feet from your house and tell me would you be okay with that. 546 The closest building to a residence is 100 feet. That is the distance you’re supposed to stop behind a school bus, 547 legally, 100 feet. Would you want your kid in that back yard? Would you want your mom in that back yard? Your 548 elderly parent? I really want you to consider that. Also, I want to applaud Ms. Piracci. She made it pretty clear, we 549 don’t know what’s going in these buildings but they do. No one builds 2.5 million sq. ft. at one time without knowing 550 the tenants. That is a poor business decision so I find it very hard to believe that they don’t know. They don’t have to 551 tell us, no legally, they don’t but they know. They absolutely know who’s going in there. The other thing I want to 552 point out is that it’s not the traffic I’m worried about, it’s not the cars, it’s not trucks, its 18 wheelers that are going in 553 and out of this business. You’re not just talking about a small vehicle. You’re talking about a loud, large vehicle at 554 any time of the day. I will be asleep next door to this and I beg you to consider that. Also, in one of the slide shows 555 by Ms. Greene, she talked about averages of business on what this would look like. I am a former employee of a fast 556 food corporation, every business is different. Some Kentucky Fried Chickens I worked for averaged 50,000 dollars a 557 28