PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
MS. GEUEA JONES: If you're speaking for a group, you have six minutes. If you
are an individual, you have three. And please stage your name and address for the
record, and as close to the mic as you can get. It's not like you haven't done this before.
MR. CROCKETT: Members of the Commission, Tim Crockett, Crockett Engineering,
offices at 1000 West Nifong. With me tonight is Quinn Bellmer, who is the applicant for
this project here tonight. A quick little review. As always, Mr. Smith did a very -- very
thorough job in his staff report, but I'll cover a few items anyway. So, again, 166 acres of
currently annexed and zoned property. Typically, we don't get pieces of property like this
that are already annexed and already zoned, so before you tonight is just the preliminary
plat. Annexation and zoning has already been decided in 2004. And again, we're not
asking for any design adjustments with this preliminary plat. This is a little bit further out
location map. You can see that this area has significant development in and around this
location, so we're certainly not pushing outside of the limits. We’ve seen that before.
CATSO, this project, when we started, it had some major roads going through the
property, and we went -- we talked with CATSO. We actually flip-flopped Olivet and
Cherry Creek. We kind of -- one was an arterial that was on the west side, and then
Olivet that went up was proposed to be the major collector, but it was proposed to go over
I-70 and tie back into Battle Avenue, which was the arterial. It didn't really seem like a
whole lot of sense to us that we had a gap there of major arterial with a major collector.
So we took that to CATSO. We said we need to flip these. They agreed with us, and so
this is the plan that you have before us tonight. And we actually went through the
CATSO process all the way through to have them revise the map accordingly. And so
with that is, obviously, Richland Road. We're going to be granting 55 for the half
right-of-way, we're going to grade the shoulders for the future construction. Olivet is a
major arterial, 110 foot of full right-of-way. Typically, an arterial goes down the property
line, and you can kind of see Olivet, as Mr. Smith indicated, it's on the east side of our
property. So if you extend Olivet straight north, it goes straight through a lot of homes
that are in the Sunrise Estate Subdivision. Obviously, that's not going to take place,
hence the reason why my client is -- is being asked to dedicate all of the right-of-way,
which is a 110-foot build portion of it, and then also do the realignment to the south. One
thing that I think Mr. Smith didn't talk about, as well, is there's additional right-of-way
being granted at that intersection for a future roundabout at some point in the future. So
we've laid that out, we've showed what right-of-way would be needed, and we're going to
dedicate that, as well. I call it Kinderlou Drive. There is some -- some issues with Joint
Communications with regards to street names. Kinderlou, in this case, is the same as
Cherry Creek. Cherry Creek, they approved it and then they came back at a later date
and said it wasn't acceptable, so it will be Kinderlou, which is a major collector. And