PB Agenda Packet - December 3, 2025

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14 439 Beth Trahos: My understanding is that the current landowner allows the school to use many of the resources on 440 the property for the students. I do think they are out there at the creek and running on the site 441 today as a part of what they do at school. And so, obviously,we cannot allow that during the 442 construction process because of ongoing construction, but we are willing to allow that access to 443 the trails. The stream is in the open space on the property, and that open-space area will be 444 maintained almost, or a little more, actually,than half the site,so that would be an available 445 environmental amenity. 446 447 Charity Kirk: So,you would allow the students on the property, on the open-space portion of the property? 448 Because right now it sounds like you very much don't want anybody but the community 449 homeowners on the property. 450 451 Beth Trahos: Our initial concern was to do with liability for a small homeowner's association, and so what we 452 had included in the conditions is that we would make an offer to the school for them to have 453 access. Our condition relates to the trails because that was what was expressed to us as 454 something that was desirable. But that offer would include some commitment with regard to 455 liability waivers and that kind of things because, clearly,these would not be public, and a 456 homeowner's association couldn't take on that risk. But we would make that offer, and the terms 457 will be negotiated between those parties moving forward. 458 459 Charity Kirk: So,you would be willing to expand that to not just the cross-country team? 460 461 Chris Johnston: I think it's for the school, is it not? 462 463 Lamar Proctor: No,the condition specifically says the property owner shall offer limited access to the planned 464 trails to the Eno River Academy for use by students on the cross-country team, pursuant to an 465 agreement drafted by the landowner with an effective date after construction is complete. So, 1 466 read that as a commitment by the developer to enter into some good-faith agreement with Eno 467 River Academy to allow the students on the cross-country team to use the trails for running 468 purposes. 469 470 471 Beth Trahos: And that was what was asked. 472 473 Chris Johnston: But point of clarification, I mean, is this our place? Like are we,we're talking about an agreement 474 between two different organizations and groups, and we're asking it to be a condition as part of 475 the zoning request,and I'm not sure that that's- 476 477 Charity Kirk: Well,we haven't requested it. 478 479 Cy Stober: So, similar to the last application that involvement a commitment to negotiate with NCDO from, I'm 480 sorry,from this applicant for a different project that compelled them to negotiate with NCDOT on 481 unnecessary turn lanes, per their traffic study; this would be a commitment for them to initiate 482 negotiations with Eno River Academy for this shared use, but it doesn't,we cannot compel them to 483 come to agreement. 484 485 Charity Kirk: Right. 486 487 Donna Crowder: Just to let you know,we met with them on Friday afternoon for 4 hours, I think. We toured the 488 whole facility, and we talked with one of the guys that runs the cross-country thing. We found out 489 about their program,which they offer this to all the charter schools all over the state. They come 490 and use their trail system for regional meets. So very proud of that, and it's a very important part 491 of their culture. So,what we did is we talked to them and said why don't we, in our plans and in 492 our commitments,we said yeah,we'll provide this many linear feet of trail. It probably will not be 493 across a creek,simply because we don't want to impact wetlands and we don't want to impact