Minutes 09-22-2020 Continued Virtual Business Meeting from 9/15/2020

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36 Commissioner Price asked if the conclusion is that there is nothing on the land in question that would trigger an environmental impact statement. Chris Bostic said he was required to provide an environmental impact statement as a part of their packet, and they did so. He said it states that there is nothing of concern. Commissioner Price said the Applicant completed an assessment, and an environmental impact statement is different. Chris Bostic agreed. Commissioner Dorosin said the biggest concern is around traffic. He clarified that there is an estimated 3650 trips a day, with peak times at 300-326 trips. He asked if the peak a.m. time is referring to a specific hour, and noted that this amount does not seem like much of a peak in comparison to the total number of trips. Christa Greene said the a.m. and p.m. peak hours are one individual hour each. She said a site like this will have coming and going throughout the day. She said the peak numbers represents about 10% of people going during the day, and were predicted to be the highest hours in conjunction with the highest measured traffic in the area. Commissioner Dorosin asked if there is an average of the number of trips over the course of the day. He said he would like to know how much of a peak will the peak hours contain. Christa Greene said peak is about 10%, so other times there would be less trips. She said there will be highs and lows during shift changes, lunch hours, beginning and end of day, etc. Commissioner Dorosin asked if the proposal is to have the service road be a right turn only, with no left turn. Christa Greene said a right in, a right out, and a left turn into the service road. She said there will be no left turn out due to the queuing. Commissioner Dorosin asked if the imagined traffic pattern could be described. Christa Greene said most trucks will use David Road. Commissioner Dorosin asked how this will be operational ized. He said the advantage of this property is its location right next to the highway, and trucks will have to turn right. He asked if there is plan to get the trucks back to the highway. Christa Greene said presumably the trucks would cut through the site, and take a left on Davis Road to get to the highway. Commissioner Dorosin said local concern is to avoid the trucks going on David Road. Christa Greene said right now that is the way DOT says things must proceed. She said it is possible to safely accommodate the traffic coming out on Davis Road with the signal. Commissioner Dorosin said this is problematic. Commissioner Greene referred to a Planning Board member, who is the Vice President of a supply chain and logistics company, and he said the traffic study used the code 150, which is just warehouse, and not code 140 (manufacturing) or 130 (industrial park). She said if this land may be used for some of these other things, she wonders why the traffic study did not include those codes. Michael Birch said the warehouse use was agreed to as part of the scoping process. He said the results of the TIA are a list of recommended improvements. He said the recommended improvements that have come out of the traffic impact study would not change if the other use codes were used. Commissioner Greene asked if the manufacturing and/or industrial park use more or less per day. Christa Greene said based on the scoping meeting, and that this would be a logistics park, this was the agreed upon land use. She said the recommendations being made do allow for additional capacity.