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will be a parent late for a game, distracted by young children in the back seat and scrambling to find an available space in a crowded parking lot. For the safety of the children it is a good thing that our use of the access road is, as Mr. Stancil notes, commercial. It is because our traffic is business-related that we know that nearly all of our traffic will occur at times when children are not present. The traffic we create occurs almost entirely on weekdays between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. (with crew members arriving from home in their personal vehicles and then leaving with their work trucks), and then again between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. (with crew members returning with their work trucks and then leaving for home in their personal vehicles). You will not see school-aged children at County soccer fields during these hours. County soccer fields are generally only used by children during weekends or well after school lets out. This is precisely when you will typically not see our trucks. To drive home the point, consider just how much traffic is created by eight soccer fields during soccer season on a Saturday. Assume that each soccer team has 12 players and 2 coaches. Each child and each coach arrives in a separate vehicle. Four of the parents simply drop their children off at the game, driving back to pick them up afterwards. Two grandparents arrive in separate vehicles to watch their grandchildren play. All told, this yields a total of 40 vehicle trips per team per game. Since there are two teams per game, there are 80 vehicle trips per soccer game. If there are eight soccer fields this gives us 640 vehicle trips per game slot. If there are four game slots per game day, we have a total of 2,560 vehicle trips per Saturday during soccer season at the soccer complex. Whatever we do at our parcel - however large we grow - our contribution towards vehicular risk to small children at these soccer fields will be as a raindrop in an ocean. This is true regardless of where our access road is located. Eliminating our traffic will do practically nothing to increase the safety of young children. Our vehicles generally aren’t on the road during the field usage times. On the other hand, eliminating one soccer field would do a lot to decrease vehicular risk to small children. Eliminating one field would subtract 320 vehicle trips per Saturday in the height of soccer season.When compared to just one soccer field, our entire business at its maximum size would be creating half as many vehicle trips per day during times when no children would be at the soccer complex.I am not suggesting that the County should reduce the number of soccer fields. Despite all of the risks, I think building all eight soccer fields and another ten baseball fields would clearly be in the interests of young children. We are simply asking the County to think accurately about the relative risk that traffic from our business is likely to pose to young children at the imagined soccer complex. My deep gratitude to you if you have read to this point and have weighed my arguments. Sincerely, Craig 6 138