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<br /> 822 base. But what I'm hearing here as pointed out, 160 D holds the planning boards to the comprehensive plan not the UDO
<br /> 823 and when I read the comprehensive plan, there's no mention of conditional zoning. In fact, if you look at Appendix D,
<br /> 824 which is the 1981 Appendix,Appendix 5.4 and 6.8 they're the only mentions of White Cross at all and they have a zoning
<br /> 825 category BH2,which doesn't appear in the LIDO anymore. I strongly urge you to wait on this until you get a
<br /> 826 comprehensive plan that covers this kind of conditional zoning, and really makes a definition of what this node,should
<br /> 827 be. I'm all over,trying to participate in that discussion, but I think this is just kind of an ad hoc proposal here that really is
<br /> 828 a basis for rejection, even though I as I said, I support property rights and I support tax diversification.Thank you.
<br /> 829
<br /> 830 George Barnes-Thank you for allowing me a couple of minutes to speak. I'm George Barnes with Glandon Forest
<br /> 831 Equity. I'm sure I'm the least popular person in this room, but I wanted to speak to Mister Marshall, one question you
<br /> 832 had, and then also just address a couple of the other points.There's been a lot of comment on the proposed use node
<br /> 833 consideration on the proposed use being given to the local community and I do appreciate and respect all of the
<br /> 834 community members concerns, I do. I will say that a lot of study and market analysis did go into this. Not by me, because
<br /> 835 I'm not privy to that, but by the intended user and they have the means to track where their dollars and their customer
<br /> 836 dollars are being spent and where it's coming from and where are the people that own those cards live. The reason they
<br /> 837 wanted to be here, is because in their mind, it better serves the needs of the community and their customer base. I've
<br /> 838 also heard comments on"Why does it need to be here, there's one 5 miles down the road to the east,there's one 7 miles
<br /> 839 down to the road to the West,"that might be true, but we can't assume that those stores will stay there, and we don't
<br /> 840 know what the intended users' plans are for those stores. I don't want to get hung up on how a certain store might look in
<br /> 841 a certain area, because this is a different store. It is going to be 10,640 square feet, but it will have a lot of coolers for
<br /> 842 fresh foods in there, and it's a little something different than what I've been involved with before with this intended user.
<br /> 843
<br /> 844 Beth Bronson-Were you involved with employing the traffic impact analysis?
<br /> 845
<br /> 846 George Barnes- Indirectly.
<br /> 847
<br /> 848 Beth Bronson- I just wanted to clarify that, since the author of the report is not here to speak on it,and the
<br /> 849 recommendations that were made were kind of generic,that there was only one day that the author of the report was
<br /> 850 actually onsite to get the average. In doing so, do you know the company that you employed, do they do traffic analysis
<br /> 851 in the county, do they normally do it in a rural area?
<br /> 852
<br /> 853 George Barnes-That's a really good question and I appreciate it.We did employ them, and it was a requirement and we
<br /> 854 have employed them throughout the state with other projects. This is the standard way of doing traffic impact analysis.
<br /> 855 The firm's name was on the County's list of firms that we could work with, it's a very reputable firm.They take historic
<br /> 856 data, current data, date from being on the site into consideration in coming up with that report. Then they share that with
<br /> 857 the county and also NCDOT.
<br /> 858
<br /> 859 Beth Bronson-So you are aware that the projected traffic means that it would be to the point at which it would be prudent
<br /> 860 for the Department of Transportation to assess for a traffic light or assess for some kind of intervention to help alleviate
<br /> 861 the traffic that's being created and that's within one year of right now. I'm trying to find any kind of discussion that was
<br /> 862 had with the developers about any kind of proactive measures or anticipation of....
<br /> 863
<br /> 864 Charity Kirk-Can I clarify?You feel like the dollar store going in is going to affect traffic so much so that the DOT is going
<br /> 865 to have to do something and that it was not addressed in the study?
<br /> 866
<br /> 867 Beth Bronson-The traffic is going to continue to increase regardless of whether or not there is a retail space there. Does
<br /> 868 this report sufficiently reflect that? I think that is to be determined because there's only one day of analysis of data
<br /> 869 collection that was performed. But there is an expected projection of already increasing traffic and so, by adding the
<br /> 870 retail center,you are creating additional safety concerns that are outlined in the County's assessment. I just wondered if
<br /> 871 there was any kind of response that you guys had for the county to specifically address that?
<br /> 872
<br /> 873 George Barnes-We addressed all the concerns that came our way. I can say that the intent is to provide a closer to
<br /> 874 home shopping option for the customer base and again,they know where their customers are,to offer general
<br /> 875 merchandise,American made, consumable items.As it relates to DOT,they had their report and reviewed it, and we are
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