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6 <br /> encompasses 6 acres of Natural Heritage Natural Area, which the design proposes to entirely <br /> cover over. <br /> 2. Our next concern is the impact of noise--on the residents, the preschool, and the church, all <br /> located within 50 to 1,000 feet of the proposed warehouse complex. According to the developer, <br /> the warehouse complex will potentially host between 150 and 200 trucks and cars per hour <br /> exiting onto Davis Road and Old NC Highway 86, with the ability for a 3-shift work schedule <br /> producing diesel tractor trailer noise at high decibels 24/7. The noise-related long-term health <br /> impacts of this proposed activity will be substantial and clearly bear additional study. <br /> 3. Next, the diesel exhaust from these vehicles (mainly trucks), again in close proximity to adults <br /> and children of all ages, deserves additional attention due to the potential for serious long-term <br /> health impacts, especially for our oldest and youngest citizens. Such emissions-related health <br /> impacts clearly bear additional study too. <br /> 4. Next, the vegetative buffers and open space offered by the proposal are not adequate to <br /> provide wildlife corridors, nor to decrease the negative visual and auditory impacts on residents <br /> in the surrounding area. <br /> 5. Finally, this development proposal does not yet offer appropriate protections for the natural <br /> community or for Orange County residents. We stand with the Eno River Association in our <br /> concern that a structure built on the headwaters of the Eno River, adjacent to a floodplain, with <br /> substantial clear cutting will not protect the water quality and quantity along the 2,500 feet of <br /> Cates Creek encompassed within the development that connect watersheds of the Eno River <br /> and New Hope Creek. There is of course more to say on this issue--and on stormwater <br /> management and mitigation- -but again: further study of the impacts is warranted. The Eno-New <br /> Hope Landscape Conservation Plan focuses on the critical importance of habitat connectivity for <br /> wildlife in the Eno River and New Hope Creek watersheds that this development encompasses. <br /> Please consider this in your questions and considerations of the RTLP proposal. <br /> Janet Marks read the following comments: <br /> I am part of Save Hillsborough. I have serious concerns about RTLP Traffic is an issue you will <br /> hear and read a lot about, and there are two main reasons: <br /> 1. Added traffic from the RTLP warehouse complex will have a major negative impact, and <br /> traffic is what will affect the area and the county as a whole the most. As you review the <br /> applicant's proposal, pay close attention to how traffic exists today and what it is proposed to <br /> look like. According to the Traffic Impact Summary presented on Aug 19, the RTLP <br /> development will generate 3,648 vehicle trips per day. <br /> • The existing traffic volume on Old NC86 between Davis Rd. and 1-40 is 6,600 vehicles <br /> per day. It is projected that 95% of all inbound and outbound trips will utilize Old NC86— <br /> it would now become 10,065, a 53% increase over the current volume. <br /> • For Davis Rd. near its intersection with Old NC86, the developer's summary shows an <br /> existing traffic volume of 2,100 vehicles per day. Add 15% of all inbound and 90% of all <br /> outbound traffic or 1,915 RTLP-added trips --that is an astonishing increase of 91% of <br /> vehicles using this twolane, mainly residential and rural area road. Yet in the words of <br /> the developer, Impact will be "Minimal". Doubling the current traffic on a narrow road <br /> abutted by homes, a church, a preschool --and yet the developer represents this as <br /> "minimal"?When you read into the proposal, please ask yourself: Is even a 91% <br /> increase in traffic on any road minimal? Not to mention that a large portion of these will <br /> be large trucks! <br />