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® ~ 58 CZ ~~j~ 5~ (including utilities) to the western two-thirds of the property--all of which is either open grassland or was cleared of its trees by the harvesting of timber within the past five years. On the SUP, there is no provision to screen the school from the road. I do not want to see a school as T drive on Terry Road. All other lots on Terry Toad are single family home sites. In fact, many of the home sites sit back from the road leaving a buffer of trees to hide the buildings. I see no screening provided on the Site Plan that will enhance my view from the road. c. A formal Traffic Impact Study is not required for this project Why not? Traffic studies have been done on our road. The average number of cars that travel Terry Road is approximately 600 per day. The school is estimating that there will be 300 more cars traveling Terry Road. The problem is that currently 600 cars use Terry Road over a 24 hour period. The 300 additional cars will be concentrated around school beginning and ending tunes. That sounds like a major impact to me. T also question the impact of 300 cars turning onto Terry Road, many of them from St. Mary's Road, an already busy street. (And, though I was not able to attend the Public Hearing on June 24, I heard that the proposed number of cars was increased to 500, making the increase in traffic all the more untenable.) e. There shall be a minimum of two access points to the site......lnternal circulation segregates student drop-off/pick-up traff c from visitor or stafJ`'traff c. It takes time to load and uriload children from a car, especially when car seats are used. Whether. it's one or two access points, I can easily imagine the sight on Terry Road as residents are driving to work. I can imagine the line of cars slowly malting their way onto the Montessori school site backed up on Terry Road, a sight we have all experienced during school openings and closings at other elementary schools. There isn't a passing lane near the school; there isn't a turn lane planned. Cars heading into the school could easily have to stop in the roadway to want their turn. Cars behind them will also have to want. Question: Does the newly proposed second access point have a long enough sight distance to meet state guidelines? It seems very close to one of many curves on Terry Road. I have watched growth in our community for more than 30 years. New homes have been built, all of them fitting into the rural nature of Terry Road, all. of them sitting on several acres, most with significantly more than atwenty-foot buffer of trees. The traffic has increased with the building of neighborhoods north of our road. An avid walker, I now plan my walks to avoid the work traffic. I expected to see more people sharing our road. I expected to see more and more homes built, perhaps a development or two, in the distant future. I expected the minimum lot size to decrease. I never expected to see.a request for an SUP to override the zoning of AR. i never expected a school to request permission to build in our residential area. i never expected to see the numbers of people sharing our road to increase in one fell swoop on the first day of school. I never expected to have to fight to maintain the integrity of my community. BJ Boyarsky 1108 Terry Road Hillsborough, NC 27278 Bj.boyarsky@gmail.com 2