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 and figured it out and I figured out that for every $100 I spend in Hillsborough currently, on my daily shopping, that 726 would drop to $20 and the other $80 would be spread out between Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham and for me Old 727 86 which is Hillsborough Road to me, would become Carrboro Road. I’m not against developing that area because 728 it’s inevitable but anything that’s going to cut me off from what I consider to be my town, I have a problem with and 729 it’s concerning to be that we can’t really get a definitive answer on what exactly is going to be developed. I don’t see 730 how the traffic plan is legitimate if we don’t even know what is going to be developed. I understand the averages 731 thing but there’s a lot of leeway going on in there. I agree with Ms. Fletcher, on her comments on that and that’s all I 732 have, thank you. 733 734 Kaila Mitchell: My Kaila Mitchell I live on Jedi Way off Davis Road. I would like to speak about the impact to air 735 quality and potential health risk that RTLP poses to our neighborhood. We know that this project will significantly 736 increase the amount of big trucks, tractor-trailers on Old 86 and Davis Road. As many as 950 trucks per day. It is 737 also reasonable to thing truck will increase on other roads nearby as they attempt to use alternate routes as Old 86 738 and Davis Road become clogged. A lot of these trucks will emit diesel exhaust that contains more than 40 toxic air 739 contaminates including cancer causing substances such as benzene, arsenic, formaldehyde. According to California 740 EPA’s office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, long-term exposure to diesel exhaust poses the highest 741 cancer risk of any toxic air contaminant evaluated by their office. To the Planning Board, as you are considering this 742 project, I urge you to keep in mind some of our most vulnerable residents when we think of air quality such as 743 children, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions and think about the locations where these vulnerable 744 individuals are most likely to spend time. For distribution centers that accommodate more than 100 trucks per day or 745 more than 40 trucks with operating transport refrigeration units per day or where transport refrigeration unit exceed 746 300 hours per week the California EPA Air Resources Board recommends in their air quality and land use handbook, 747 that these distribution centers be farther than 1000 feet from sensitive locations such as residences, school, day care 748 centers, playgrounds and medical facilities. They also recommended that entry and exit points not be located near 749 these sensitive locations as well. We have a preschool, Sounds and Colors, right at the corner of Old 86 and Davis 750 Road and we have dozens of families living all around the proposed industrial park within 1000 feet many within 300 751 feet. California EPA Air Resources Board also showed the key findings from a number of studies which included 752 reduced lung function in children associated with traffic density especially trucks within 1000 feet and that association 753 was strongest within 300 feet. Also increased asthma, hospitalizations associated when living within 650 feet of 754 heavy traffic and heavy truck volume. Exposure to diesel exhaust can also have immediate health effects, it can 755 irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs and it can cause cough, headaches, light-headedness and nausea. In 756 studies with volunteers, diesel exhaust particles made people with allergies more susceptible to the things they were 757 already allergic to such as dust and pollen. Exposure to diesel exhaust also causes inflammation in the lungs which 758 may aggravate respiratory symptoms and increase the frequency or intensity of asthma attacks. I have a family 759 member who lives right here on Davis within 1000 of this as well who has chronic lung disease. He already suffers 760 enough on a daily basis, I urge the Planning Board to recommend that a risk assessment and a thorough 761 environmental analysis be performed before RTLP can move forward. Thank you. 762 763 Matt Mitchell: My name is Matt Mitchell and I’m an audio engineer living off of Davis Road less than 1000 from the 764 proposed development. I am going to talk about noise pollution and the impact on the residents and the preschool. 765 Orange County Noise Ordinances state it shall be unlawful for any person to make create permit or to continue any 766 source of a unreasonably loud and disturbing noise in Orange County and further any sound which is substantially 767 incompatible with the time and location where created and which is perceived by a person of ordinary sensibilities as 768 interrupting the normal peace and calm of the receiving land. The receiving land being all of the residential 769 properties surrounding this proposed development. Orange County does not allow noises above 60 decibels during 770 the day and 50 decibels in the evenings at the residential properties surrounding the proposed development. The 771 noise generated from a diesel truck is between 96 and 104 decibels. This is 60 times louder than the 50 decibels 772 that the evening ordinance permits. There are residences as close as 30 feet to the proposed driveway that will be 773 carrying as many as 950 trucks per day, house #1 is 30 feet away from this driveway that is being put in where these 774 diesel trucks will be queuing up. These distances are taken from the Orange County GIS and they reflect the true 775 impact to residences. Please don’t be fooled into thinking that most residences are more than 1000 feet away. I’d 776 also like to add that none of these properties depicted are commercially zoned. Focusing on the resident 777 immediately beside the access point on Davis Road is only 5 trucks in the queue on this road, this resident will 778 experience 81 decibels of sustained noise, the equivalent of standing next to a lawnmower 24/7 and also loud 779 enough to cause hearing damage at 2 hours of exposure per the CDC. It doesn’t seem possible that the developer 780 could possibly reduce noise to acceptable levels at the surrounding properties and the preschool. 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