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<br /> 330 Charity Kirk: So, it would become a conditional zoning district anyway?
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<br /> 332 Cy Stober: Well, pending approval by the county board of commissioners and the recommendation of the
<br /> 333 planning board, but yes.
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<br /> 335 Charity Kirk: Okay.
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<br /> 337 Cy Stober: It would go through the same process, regardless of whether it was conventional subdivision or a
<br /> 338 conservation cluster.
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<br /> 340 Charity Kirk: Okay. While you figure that out, the traffic stuff because that was a big discussion point, and it
<br /> 341 seems like it is a problem along that road. And you're not proposing any solutions; you're waiting
<br /> 342 for the DOT to do something.
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<br /> 344 Beth Trahos: Well, and I'm going to ask Josh Reinke to come forward, but I would say, no traffic-impact analysis
<br /> 345 was required either by county regulation or by NCDOT. And we have had Josh do some
<br /> 346 investigation, and I'll let him tell you about it.
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<br /> 348 Josh Reinke: Yeah, so and I guess in terms of when you say solutions,you're saying like turn lanes and things
<br /> 349 like that, correct?
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<br /> 351 Charity Kirk: Yeah, I mean people brought up the stoplights down the road that, I mean, is not even on your
<br /> 352 property, but yes, center turn lanes, things that could address the community issues and the
<br /> 353 issues that I heard expressed on the board for the increased traffic load, and also this packet that
<br /> 354 was left that's talking about the traffic study being, I don't know if you saw.
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<br /> 356 Josh Reinke: Yeah, I've seen it.
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<br /> 358 Charity Kirk: The traffic study not being estimated correctly because the homes are going to be four bedrooms
<br /> 359 not two and a half bedrooms.
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<br /> 361 Josh Reinke: Correct. And I'll talk a little bit about that kind of high level and kind of dive into what you're
<br /> 362 asking. So, in terms of the traffic study, because I saw, I called ITE, I got this bit of information. 1
<br /> 363 took this bit from here, kind of cobbled something together. DOT, I mean, it's in there. We even
<br /> 364 had county staff talk to DOT recently. We did the traffic study following guidelines of the county
<br /> 365 and NCDOT. That's how I'm required,as a professional engineer pre-qualified. I can't take a
<br /> 366 piece here and a piece here and sort of cobble it together. A lot of the stuff was talking about the
<br /> 367 average size of the house, and then ITE does this,and why didn't we use bedrooms and things
<br /> 368 like that. There are guidelines we have. It's based on downloading units. They look at,
<br /> 369 nationally, different sized houses, so some might be larger,some might have less bedrooms. It's
<br /> 370 the way NCDOT does require it. Now, keep in mind,they didn't require a traffic study;the client
<br /> 371 asked me to perform one just to see those impacts. And we provided it to NCDOT. They did
<br /> 372 provide a review. They agreed with our findings. So,this is where it comes into some of that stuff
<br /> 373 of what are we going to do there is typically, in terms of when a traffic study isn't required, NCDOT
<br /> 374 says you still need to get a driveway permit from us. You're going to have to dive into that design
<br /> 375 stuff. We're going to tell you if you need turn lanes at your site driveways, things like that. So,
<br /> 376 essentially,this is indicating no,we're not; no,we're under the threshold to require us to study off-
<br /> 377 site intersections and improve things that are already a problem. We're looking at what is the
<br /> 378 impact of our development. So,we have,just to kind of be proactive is we had our survey team
<br /> 379 go out there and look at the site distance. It's been submitted to NCDOT. They have to do a field
<br /> 380 evaluation,also, to check that and then they will let us know. And by let us know, I mean whether
<br /> 381 it's restricting a driveway;and I'm not speaking on behalf of DOT; I'm saying these are options.
<br /> 382 They might say we want a center turn lane. Get that traffic out of there. They might say we want
<br /> 383 to restrict it to a right in, right out, because we have some concerns there where we don't want the
<br /> 384 left-turning movement because the site distance isn't good enough. There are all sorts of options
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