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Approved 9.3.25 1482 Beth Trahos: Yup. 1483 1484 Beth Bronson: And just throughout the process, it started as 40 that were mapped out. 1485 1486 Beth Trahos: Yes, I think that was an error, and some folks picked up on someone else's error, and then it sort 1487 of snowballed, and so yes. You do see some different numbers, but the answer is 43. 1488 1489 Beth Bronson: Okay. I'm sorry. One of the consultants was referring to the density for this conservation 1490 neighborhood that the idea that they could have developed across the stream, and there could be 1491 more spread out, and the choice was to create a more dense lot and smaller lot sizes for the 1492 community feel, but I would pause at that. I would think it'd be much more affordable if you're 1493 going to be running a community well line throughout the neighborhood to not cross a stream or a 1494 protected water area. I just wanted to point that out, out of necessity, I think it's important that 1495 when applicants are presenting these concept plans that you are taking advantage. And I think 1496 that this application does that. Is that it reflects a thoughtful process, and yes, it's more cost 1497 effective to do this, but it's also environmentally beneficial to stay away from the stream ways, and 1498 so, it's just not a reasoning, I think,for what could have been done. And then if the DOT 1499 application is approved, one of the conditions was that they would provide the right-turn lane, and 1500 then I don't understand necessarily how the center lane would work if it was approved. Do you 1501 have anybody to speak to that? 1502 1503 Beth Trahos: Well, Josh can speak to that, but I can tell you the short answer,which may be what you're after is 1504 one is a right-turn lane into the site, and one is a left-turn into the site from the center. 1505 1506 Charity Kirk: So,the road's going to be widened slightly? 1507 1508 Beth Bronson: That's what I'm asking about the center. Maybe you can explain that to me. 1509 1510 Josh Reinke: Absolutely. Yeah. So, it would likely be symmetrical, and I'm not a designer, but typically, you're 1511 looking to keep it within the existing right-of-way, and yes, you would have to widen the road to get 1512 that center turn lane in, so while right-turn lane is just kind of on the side of the site itself, so you're 1513 just impacting how far you're going into that. The center or left-turn lane there would be,we're 1514 going to widen on each side and kind of taper it down further down the road, so it will be a wider 1515 section of road there to allow for them to, like I said, taper so you can slowly transition into that. 1516 You don't just all of a sudden have wider pavement here. 1517 1518 Beth Bronson: And this would be for primarily people coming westbound, or eastbound from Alamance County. 1519 Basically, coming from Alamance toward Carrboro? Right? 1520 1521 Josh Reinke: Yes. 1522 1523 Beth Bronson: Coming from the rural area to town. 1524 1525 Josh Reinke: Yes. 1526 1527 Beth Bronson: Or, as Meg was saying the left-turn lane out of the neighborhood. Right? 1528 1529 Josh Reinke: Well, not out of. It's going into the neighborhood to get traffic out of the through movement along 1530 54. So, like I said, it's a safety thing. It's to say we know 54. We know people are moving fast. 1531 We know you've got now people that are going to be turning into the subdivision. You don't want 1532 them just stopping and waiting for gaps in the traffic. You want them to be able to and to be in a 1533 safe turn lane where people could be going around them in the through lane essentially. 1534 1535 Beth Bronson: Absolutely. And all that to point out that it is not for turning left out of the neighborhood, right? 1536 Like,there would be no center lane to transition from the westbound to the eastbound