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3 Ms. Amy Massey with Kimberly-Horn addressed the Board stating she is a licensed professional traffic engineer in the State of North Carolina. She said she apologize because she did not hear the entire question from Mr. Starnes. Mr. Starnes said basically with the summation that the Board have here he was just looking at the long and short of it. He just want to know what the present total traffic is and what the anticipated traffic total numbers would be. Ms. Massey said they dJd a traffic impact study and they followed all the typically standard guidelines and methodologies that traffic engineers use nationwide. She said this whole traffic study is based upon the starting point of traffic counts. Ms. Massey said mainly traffic counts are taken out in the field dOing the peaks hours. Then, they basically do a projection of how much traffic would be generated by this particular site if it was developed as proposed. She said this site, if developed as it Is proposed, would have about four percent of the entire traffic at the intersection of Odell School Road and N.C. Highway 73. Ms. Massey said if you consider existing traffic volumes doing. the peak' hours, then add the projected traffic for this site to those traffic volumes, then what you end up with Is about four percent oft site traffic., ::\ ) The Chair asked when.did s~:~ake ~s~J,SJOdnts. Ms. Massey said they were taken Q~uar'r 27th. Ms. Burns said there is an elementary school there at that intersection. She asked Ms. Massey if she took into consideration what happens with the traffic flow there during the drop off and pick up times at the school. Ms. Massey said not specifically, but typically they count traffic volumes from 7 am to 9 am and that is usually identified as the am peak hours. She said they also count from 4 pm tb 6 pm and that is considered the pm peak period. Ms. Massey said they did not do any special counts at this intersection. Mr. Griffin said the thing that he does not understand is this looks to be a traffic study that'just deals with existing traffic on Highway 73 and Odell School Road. Then, you are going to be adding this development into that. Mr. Griffin said Moss Creek still have 1,100 houses to be built and there are several other subdivisions that are b~ing proposed for that same area out there. He said he cannot understand how we can say the combinations of these subdivisions are not going to make Highway 73 and Odell School Road not apparent. Mr. Griffin said why do we do these things in isolation. Ms. Massey said the best way to answer that is for her to, explain what the purpose of a traffic impact study is. She said it is to try to determine what the G-4-