some adjustments with the roundabout at Crackley Drive, but it's still somewhat to be
determined how that -- the Veterans United lights will -- may be impacted, or this
neighborhood may be impacted, you could say it both ways, when those two things
converge for several weeks every year.
MS. GEUEA JONES: I would point out that what we are being asked tonight is the
angle of the curves here. And, I mean, I appreciate the discussion and certainly traffic
flow is going to be problematic at least during that month, I think, that they run the lights.
But the question isn't is there going to be a road connecting State Farm Parkway to
Veterans United through these two lots or however many lots. The question is how steep
will those curves be. And frankly, and we can get more into it when we get to the
discussion part, but just reminding all of our Commissioners, like, there's going to be a
road here that developers are going to build. The question is what is it going to look like?
Any other questions for staff? Seeing none. We will open the floor to public comment.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
MS. GEUEA JONES: Please come forward. Name and address for the record, and
you know all the things.
MR. CROCKETT: Madam Chair, members of the Commission, Tim Crockett,
Crockett Engineering, 1000 West Nifong. I believe Mr. Kunz did a good -- good job in his
staff report for -- for this project, and I appreciate him putting in, included in that staff
report, the definitions of and the various types of roads, because when this project
started, I believe that really we believed that there were going to be local non-residential,
and I believe the staff did, to some degree, as well, believed that this area was going to
be filled with local non-residential streets and not necessarily neighborhood collectors. If
you look again, he briefly mentioned it, but the across the University property to our west,
and you can kind of see from this depiction here, it's the yellow lines that kind of traverse
the area just north of the M-OF designation, all of those roads are designed with the
same neighborhood -- or, excuse me -- with the same local non-residential standard.
And so I believe what the idea there was is that's what these roads are going to be -- be
constructed as. That was our belief, that was our thought, and, again, it makes -- you
know, it makes more sense that -- that they get built that way with a tighter curve.
Again, we're not going to decrease the amount of traffic. We're not going to decrease the
volumes that those roads can handle, and it does slow them down through the
commercial areas. And -- excuse me -- in this case, the office areas. And then also it's
not going to take away any of the other modes of transportation. We still have sidewalks
on both sides, just like a neighborhood collector, The width of the road, depending upon
-- I mean, it used to be the fact that we had a neighborhood collector -- or we had
collectors, we had arterials, and we had residentials and local non-residential, and each
one of them had one street width and one classification. Now we have a varying and
