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41 Draft 1 Kevin Hornik: All right. And what sort of things you measure, measurements, observations did you do while 2 you were out at the site? 3 4 Caroline Cheeves: Sure. Well, I drove along Dodson's Knoll Road as well as Hi Mar Lane as well as the Dairyland 5 intersections. And we measured the width of Dodson Knoll Road. We took plenty of 6 photographs of the existing conditions out there. We observed people entering and exiting 7 the site. And we also measured, we evaluated the site distance at all of the appropriate 8 access points. And we also measured you know, the, the distances between the driveways 9 along Dodson Knoll Road. 10 11 Kevin Hornik: And can you describe for the Board of the kind of a, your characterization of Dodson Knoll 12 Road and, and Hi Mar Lane for that, for that matter? 13 14 Caroline Cheeves: Sure. Both roads are obviously private unpaved roads. They are extremely flat. I did not 15 observe any particular divots or potholes. They appeared to have sufficient drainage along 16 the roads as well. And from, based on everything I have you know, heard, I do want to say 17 that I did ensure that we were able to pass oncoming vehicles along the road. You do have 18 to pull over, however, there's sufficient room along the road to do so. And also, you can't 19 really drive, or I wasn't comfortable driving more than about 10 miles per hour on the road. At 20 one point I tried to increase my speed up to 15, but because it is an unpaved road, I didn't feel 21 comfortable that my car was not going to take on damage due to the rocks. So, it really does 22 force you to drive slowly along the road. 23 24 Kevin Hornik: And so, in your professional experience, your education is it your opinion that the nature of 25 the road as an unpaved relatively narrow private driveway actually provides a benefit in terms 26 of traffic, calming it? 27 28 Caroline Cheeves: It actually does a common form of traffic calming that we see as a quote unquote "road diet." 29 They actually installed one in my neighborhood where it almost forces you to stop in order to 30 pass other vehicles. It's a form of ensuring that people are paying attention and not driving 31 too fast along roads. 32 33 Kevin Hornik: Okay. Did you observe anything about the condition of Dodson Knoll Road or a Hi Mar Lane 34 that leads you to believe based on your professional education and your experience, that 35 either one is unsafe? 36 37 Caroline Cheeves: I did not observe that it is an unsafe road. It is, I would like to testify that it is operating more 38 as a driveway and not necessarily a road in terms of you know, following any NCDOT 39 standards. NCDOT does not have any standards for unpaved private roads, so. 40 41 Kevin Hornik: Okay. So, so now we're going to go through some of the traffic and traffic-engineering related 42 UDO review criteria. So, bear with me. There's going to be a lot of word salad, I know, but 43 we're just trying to get through this. So, based on your visit to the site and your professional 44 experience, do you believe that Jubilee Healing Farm maintains or promotes the public health 45 safety and general ware, welfare as currently operated and as it relates to the traffic impacts 46 on Hi Mar Lane, Dodson, Knoll, and Dairyland? 47 48 Caroline Cheeves: Yes. And I'm going to read this, just it's hard to memorize all of these different things. The 49 increase traffic associated with the potential increase in business, and I would really like to 50 highlight the word potential. I think you've already heard that the intent is not to increase the, 41