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8 Mr. Harris said the ordinance is very specific in that there are four items that Ms. Massey, as a traffic engineer, is suppose to look at. He said the report that the Board has in front of them addresses those four items. Mr. Harris said Ms. Massey actually went above herself to another professional engineer. He said in their packet there is an e-mail that states that they do not feel like the impacts of their subdivision would warrant anything above and beyond the left hand turns and the right turn lane that they have required. He said they have readily accepted those improvements and are actually in the process of trying to obtain whatever right-of-ways or whatever they have to do to make that happen. Mr. Harris said the report shows that there is a current problem. He said they are not denying that. But, they do not feel like they are adding significantly to the problem per the study that they see before them. Mr. Harris said he does not know, other than to ask staff, if they are required to go above and beyond that study. Mr. Moore said to Mr. Harris that he made the statement that he does not feel that they are adding significantly to the problems. He asked if that means that he think that he is indeed adding to theprol?lem. .:<, ',;~ Mr. Harris said on a very sm911'scat~p~s:Ms. Massey testimony, yes. '. ~r~);':i~-:;~~ " . Mr. Moore said the bound packet'\~hat the Board received, if he is reading the tables correctly, we have gone from the level of services on the village common . street from morning am peak hours from B to E, and pm from a C to E. He said after the improvements we have dropped a level of service. Ms. Massey said it is an unsignalized stop control intersection and it is very different from a signalized intersection. It is typically for unsignalized stop control approaches to have high delays, not level service E, but like a level service F with a star by it. Mr. Moore said he did not say anything about signalizing that intersection. He said signals impede the flow of traffic they do not help. Mr, Moore said the point that he is making is that they are dropping the level of service. With the analysis in the book the level of service is dropping at that intersection. Ms. Massey said for the stop control village comment that is correct. She said at the intersection of Highway 73 and Odell School Road, she estimates about half of the traffic from the site is actually going through the intersection. It does not get worse in level of service when you add the site. It stays at C in the morning and at D in the afternoon. Ms. Massey said the whole purpose is to get a grip on what the impact of this site is. She said that is a major intersection and that is where th,ey will focus not at the unsignalized stop control intersection. Ms. G,t