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176 <br /> Approved 10.1.25 <br /> 440 <br /> 441 Chris Johnston: I can pause while you get your notes. <br /> 442 <br /> 443 Laura Streitfeld: Yes. Thank you. <br /> 444 <br /> 445 Chris Johnston: Just let me know when you're ready. <br /> 446 <br /> 447 Laura Streitfeld: Okay. All right. My apologies. Regarding this property, excuse me one moment. Let me just <br /> 448 make sure I have the right notes. I apologize. Okay. I'm urging you tonight to deny Forestar <br /> 449 Group Incorporated's rezoning request for the property on NC Highway North, I'm sorry, NC 86 <br /> 450 North. Rezoning from agricultural residential to residential conditional district zoning would burden <br /> 451 the property and adjacent communities with 49 densely sided lots and individual septic fields <br /> 452 surrounding Stroud's Creek, streams,and wetlands. To call it a conservation cluster is a stretch. <br /> 453 If you were to build a highway, and you paved the roads but not the median or the shoulder,would <br /> 454 you call that conservation? That's the concept here. Commissioners have not yet decided <br /> 455 whether or how to define or regulate conservation clusters, and that topic isn't on their agenda <br /> 456 until later this fall, but it's being closely considered. I realize it's in the LIDO, but they are closely <br /> 457 considering how to more thoughtfully consider and whether or not to use conservation clusters <br /> 458 and where. On this property, it's misleading. This does not appear to conserve in any meaningful <br /> 459 way,watershed land,wildlife,creeks, streams,wetlands, or buffers. If this property were not <br /> 460 rezoned, construction could still take place on the property,and the same areas would be <br /> 461 excluded from construction because they are not buildable. They are buffers, and they are <br /> 462 wetlands, and they are water areas that are not buildable. Putting in gardens and benches is not <br /> 463 really a public amenity, and neither are the trails. This property, if developed as proposed,would <br /> 464 provide benefits to only those who would choose to live there, and the housing that's provided is <br /> 465 not affordable. It would not be available to the public. In the agenda you can see there are <br /> 466 questions from the planning staff and from Hillsborough officials asking about whether the trails <br /> 467 would be available, and the answer is no that they are private. They're not being built to any <br /> 468 public standards, and they would not be able to be used by students who are walking to school to <br /> 469 create a more walkable community. I have heard from residents around the community that there <br /> 470 are significant questions about traffic because not only are they burdened with serious traffic <br /> 471 issues, as you have heard, but there are many, many cars coming and going during school hours <br /> 472 with the two schools and folks who already cut through neighborhood streets posing great risk to <br /> 473 the folks who live there. It's also a concern that like the project a month ago,the wells are already <br /> 474 being dug and tested in a way that may cause fluctuations in water availability or effect water <br /> 475 quality and that that would preclude the folks who are there now from assessing at a baseline how <br /> 476 their properties might be affected. With the considerable septic that's being proposed, I ask you to <br /> 477 consider not recommending this project knowing that they could still build on this property,just not <br /> 478 at the density that they're requesting. Thank you. <br /> 479 <br /> 480 Lamar Proctor: Thank you. Wayne Honeycutt, did you want to speak? <br /> 481 <br /> 482 Wayne Honeycutt: No. <br /> 483 <br /> 484 Lamar Proctor: No. Okay. And Susanna, I'm going to mess that up.You're good. Okay. Thank you. All right. <br /> 485 So that concludes public comment. I'm going to turn it over to the board to see if we have any <br /> 486 questions of the applicant,so Delores, do you want to start? <br /> 487 <br /> 488 Delores Bailey: I do. Thank you. I actually have a couple questions. While sitting here taking note of the number <br /> 489 of folks that had come up with questions about the traffic, and I know I think we talked a little bit <br /> 490 about that before. Are there any changes to the plan since we last met that can alleviate the <br /> 491 traffic danger that everyone is talking about? Is there anything that can be done about that? <br /> 492 <br /> 493 Beth Trahos: I'm going to ask Josh Reinke to come forward and talk to you about the work that he did to study <br /> 494 traffic in this area. <br />