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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes November 21~ 1996 Page 3 Mr. Moose said Blackwelder Road is a real small road. It has a couple of big curves in it. The egress on to Highway 49 is not easy even now. Mr. Ted Futerol, First Colony Group, stated to the Board that more of their traffic will be coming from 1-85 and Highway 29 site than just the Highway 49 site. He said they have excellent access going back to Highway 29. Mr. Moose said he thinks that the exit to Highway 29 is not as excellent as Mr. Futerol thinks. If you go out to Cochran Road, all you can see is houses. It is going to be absolutely one great big huge development. Mr. Moose said he thinks the Board needs to slow down letting developers come in here putting 162 houses on such a small piece of property on a small road that has nothing to do with infrastructure of the County as far as maintaining those roads. The Chair said in the past where roads were concerned, we have asked the developers to make the entrance wider or to have it two lanes divided. She asked if that would be an option. Mr. Marshall said that is an option. He said he thinks the stub roads are a better solution. It is not just the frontage on this property that is limited, it is limited width back to a certain point. When you did that in the past, we require that that extra lane go back to the first intersection. Mr. Wilson said he would like to make one point. He said although the Medium Density Residential allows a maximum of 4 1/2 lots per acre, when you factor in the 30% common open space, and you start looking at their site, they have just slightly over 3 units per acre. He said in reality to meet the Medium Density Residential, they could have gone up and had 4 1/2 x 50 acres, 225 lots to that site. He said they could have shrunk the site down and still met the requirements. He said they are not pushing the maximum density. lO