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

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37 Commissioner Greene read the proposal from the Planning Board member's comments. She said the potential uses seem to be changing. She said everyone wants to understand the maximum number of trips per day, and how does the County prepare. She asked if the other code uses would be more or less trips per day. Michael Birch said he can provide additional information. He said each use has slightly different characteristics with daily trips, peak hours etc. He said the recommended improvements are based on trip generation with a certain use, but those improvements will accommodate additional trips. He said the infrastructure could handle additional trips. Commissioner Bedford said a traffic noise study was done on old 86 and Davis road, and the noise increase would be 2.2 decimals for all but one parcel, and it would need t be 3 decibels to be perceived. She asked if more details could be provided about this, and if the Applicant would be willing to give the BOCC a full copy of the study. Michael Birch said one property, with the higher decibel increase, was parcel #3 that fronts along Davis Road. He said this is the Barlow property. He said he will follow-up on the exact details. Commissioner Bedford referenced pages 402, 406 and 450, which included communications regarding traffic, and she tried to compare DOT's initial findings with that which they resolved and agreed to. She said everything was fine at Waterstone, as well as the conservative estimate that was used for 86/1-40 westbound ramps. She said DOT required three things with old 86 and the service road: a north bound left turn lane with125 feet of full staging/storage; south bound right lane with 100 feet of staging/storage; and an east bound right turn lane, with 200 feet of full staging/storage. She said the Applicant offered up the option of right turn only out of the service road, and DOT responded by keeping the first two conditions, but deleting the third. She said Davis road originally required a traffic signal, a southbound right lane with 100 feet of full staging/storage, and a northbound left turn lane with 100 feet exclusive. She said at some point the northbound left turn was removed, and it became a right turn only onto the service road, in order to avoid building the number 3 right eastbound lane with 200 full storage. She asked if the Applicant were to build that road, would it still be possible to have left turns out of the service road, and meet the requirements for DOT. Christa Greene said no. She referred to the July 31st memo from DOT, which said the queue spillbacks from the adjacent eastbound ramps will need to be mitigated, or restrictions of left turns. She said that is basically where NCDOT recommended right lane. Commissioner Bedford asked if there is any other way to mitigate the queue spill back. Christa Greene said the Applicant could not determine any other way to mitigate the queue spillback. Commissioner Marcoplos said these types of issues have arisen before in discussions of widening 1-40, when the only option seemed to be to run a road through a neighborhood, but another solution was found due to community pressure and pushback. He wonders if there are other ideas that just have not been fully pursued. Michael Birch said one additional option was to condemn private property, in order to shift the service road intersection with 86 farther away from the 1-40 ramp. Commissioner Marcoplos asked if this is the Dodson property. Michael Birch said no, it is more the area between the Applicant's land and 86. He said it would involve shifting the service road further south. He said that is the only other option. He said there are some fixed points in the ramp and the bridge. He said design standards require things to stay fairly straight. He said shifting things is not a feasible solution. He said the Applicant did consider this, but it would require action from someone else to condemn property. Michael Harvey shared his screen to display the actual property line in question. He said there are many complicating factors such as utility easements, private property, Economic