Agenda - 06-06-2023; 5-b - Zoning Atlas Amendment MA22-0004 – Parcel Located off Lawrence Road and US 70A, in Eno Township

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179 DRAFT 605 606 Patrick Byker: I would like to bring up our team just so that we make sure we answer your question as thoroughly as we 607 can. I will say on the record,that since this a conditional use zoning atlas amendment, pursuant to NC GS 160D 73B, 608 you are allowed to offer conditions. I will say on the record tonight,subject to NCDOT approval,we will install a median 609 on Lawrence Road at the Old NC 10 intersection. Now to answer your questions as to how we got to that point, Lyle,will 610 you give a background on the study area please?This is Lyle Overcash our traffic engineer who specializes in school 611 traffic. 612 613 Lyle Overcash:A lot of good comments from the neighbors, Old NC10 and Lawrence Road was brought up early in the 614 scoping process,the county asked for that intersection to be included in the study area.The development overall was 615 about 4,000 vehicles a day. NCDOT felt like with such a minor volume it was highly unlikely that they would make any 616 kind of improvements there.The intersection is on the HSIE list so it has an accident history.A gentleman earlier in the 617 meeting made a good suggestion about putting a median on NC10,to prevent folks from cutting the corner. We haven't 618 studied that. Someone else had mentioned that folks are running through the intersection, maybe not stopping. It sounds 619 like if you added a median on Lawrence Road,just looking at a street view while the meeting was going on, I don't see a 620 lot of striping that is noticeable, so I think through adding some additional striping, a stop bar, possibly adding that 621 median, and what that median would do is allow you to put up another stop sign. So that would give you two stop signs 622 as you approach that intersection so maybe that would help prevent some people from running through the intersection. 623 Again,we didn't study that intersection in the TIA,those are just some suggestions that came to us. 624 625 Statler Gilfillen: Have you done any studies comparing accident rates with traffic on NC10/Lawrence Rd compared to 626 comparable areas? 627 628 Lyle Overcash: No,we didn't study NC10. 629 630 Statler Gilfillen: One of the people here in the audience has raised that point that several accidents have happened on 631 Lawrence Road. Being someone that uses it, I am concerned about that. 632 633 Lyle Overcash: The posted speed limit on Lawrence Rd. is 45 mph....when we would build this development,we would 634 petition the DOT to make that area a school zone through that area so we would try to reduce the speed limit during 635 school hours to 35 mph so that would give it at least a window particularly during the AM peak hour to try to reduce the 636 speeds through that area. 637 638 Statler Gilfillen:At River Park Elementary at about 8 o'clock in the morning, going in and out of that school,there could 639 be a 15 minute delay and there have actually been people who have been hit.A custodian was once hit by a car.What 640 precautions for entering and leaving this school are you taking, not to slow traffic? People coming are not expecting that 641 delay and they are going to be very upset... 642 643 Lyle Overcash:As we discussed at the last meeting,the most important thing is to make sure that the stacking, the cars 644 are stacking on the campus and not backed out onto Lawrence Rd. or US70.That is the number one thing.Again,we 645 have about a mile of stacking distance on the campus itself and Joey is committed to making the management plan work 646 and keep that stacking on campus, that is the number one issue. The second biggest safety concern would be the left 647 turn lanes that are going to be provided at the school driveways at Lawrence Rd. and US70.There's no left turn lanes on 648 NC10 and I'm sure there are some accidents associated with that. The center left turn lane is the most critical thing when 649 it comes to safety. 650 651 Beth Bronson:You spoke about 15% of school traffic coming from Nc10 to Lawrence Rd.then 15% coming from NC86, 652 15% coming from the west side of Hillsborough....having the lottery system you will have a lot of students coming from 653 neighboring counties, I know that there are plans for a bus, how much traffic might end up getting routed to NC10 654 because there is so much congestion in the Hillsborough city limits. I think that is something to consider and I do 655 understand the neighbor's concern about the traffic and the commuters'concerns about the traffic.Also that this is not a 656 24 hour business or a 1600 student school facility. Did the TIA incorporate the recreational....? 657 658 Lyle Overcash: It did. 659