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9 Massey said she is not going against what Mr. Moore is saying she said she is just stating, as a traffic engineer, it is minimal impact. She said if we are looking at the intersection of Highway 73 and Odell School Road as being the most important thing here,there is very little reasonable impact there. Mr. Moore said as a icitizen of the county he would say that any impact is not minimal. He said that is his personal statement. Ms. Burns asked if she considered the impact on that fire station at all. Ms. Massey said no. Ms. Burns said traffid is most frequently backed up beyond the school, beyond the fire station and d~wn Highway 73. It is also backed up significantly on Odell School Road well beypnd where the intersection of their subdivision would come in on to Odell School Road. She asked what their plans are for that. Ms. Massey said the study that they considered in this again was the existing conditions with the improvements at the intersection that will be needed to bring it to acceptable ope~ation. She said that is the condition that they actually considered adding t~e site traffic to. Ms. ... Massey said they did not look specifically at hewing: links specifically for iJie existing condition or the existing site condition. They Ipoked at the imptlfl.~.~ bE!tween the two, the before and after pace. . . ~r . Ms. Burns said the traffic safety is~oncern. . Mr. Griffin said the ~int that they are making is they did the study that was required by the Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance. He said if you take it one step further and read ithe note that was sent from Leah Wagner of NCDOT, their statement is when th$y include the improvements that are being made or will be made in addition to the turn lanes on Odell School Road that NCDOT staff is satisfied with no furtjher requirements to the intersection of Highway 73 and Odell School Road wilj be needed as a result of a traffic count for this particular development. He ask~d Mr. Koch where does that put the Board. i Mr. Richard Koch, At~brney for the Planning and Zoning Commission addressed the Board stating he *i11 read to the Board that part of the ordinance so they can have a clear understahding of what it says. He said Mr. Lentz summarized it for them but it maybe because of the extended discussion that we have had it might be helpful for them t~ hear it verbatim. Mr. Koch said this is under Chapter 4, Section 12 B, Traffic lmpact Analysis. "Subdivisions or developments estimated to produce greater than 200 trips per day are required to provide a Traffic Impact analysis (TIAX. The TIA must be produced by a qualified professional E-\