Carroll County, MD Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission, 7 Dec 2022

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From YouTube: Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session December 7, 2022

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One, it is 6 p.m. On december 7th uh pearl harbor day and uh welcome everyone to this evening's.

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Planning and zoning commission work session. um We will begin as we always do with the establishment.

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Of a quorum, please hi, mr walthers, I'm here miss kirkner here, mr luster, here.

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Mr kane, here, mr smith,.

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Here, mr klosik.

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I see commissioner rothstein.

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And secretary eisenberg yeah, okay, mr chair, please let the record reflect that six.

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Members are present and we do have a quorum all right. Thank you very much. Let's move on.

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To the next item, which is the pledge of allegiance, we stand for the pledge.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which.

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It stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all foreign.

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Next item item four is review and approval of the agenda. Madam secretary, are there any other? Are.

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There any changes to the agenda, we were provided. No, there are no changes for this evening's agenda.

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All right, well with that, the chair would be happy to entertain a motion for the approval.

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Of the agenda agenda as presented, I moved we approved the agenda as presented. Is there a second.

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We have a second um all in favor, hi hi. Anyone opposed or abstaining.

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Looks like none uh we'll move on to item five, which is the administrative report, and I could.

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Just take one quick liberty to say welcome to welcome back to the commissioner. It's nice to.

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Have him uh here this evening, virtually with us, so uh we're glad to have you again happy to be here.

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um And uh madam secretary I'll turn it over to you for the administrative report.

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I'm not too much to offer, but thank you, commissioner, rothstein for being here.

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um And I think we will find out officially, who are our next ex-officio will be.

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um After the session tomorrow, um if I can just do a little housekeeping, if you are not.

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um Planning, commission, member or um part of the agenda item, if you could mute yourself.

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And turn off your camera. That would be very helpful as well, so I think mr king may have.

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His microphone on I'm getting some feedback, not a control room, commute him. That would be great.

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um Anyway, um so we will know after tomorrow, um who will be our ex-officio? Also a change in our.

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Meeting schedule, as you all are aware that we have our next planning commission meeting.

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um Next tuesday, the 13th, which is actually the second tuesday of the month because of.

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The holiday schedule we've moved next week up a week uh next plan commission meeting up a week.

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um And just a little reminder: can you mute the person.

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I don't know if you can or laura. I think you might have the ability to do that.

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Mark can you mute them? Oh, okay, gotcha. Thank you. Matt.

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um So uh also just a reminder that the department of planning office.

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Is physically or closed because you're having some hvac work done, so we are not in the office.

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um But we are all working virtually and coming in as needed. So just a reminder on that.

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um And that is all I have um also I'm sorry one more thing. Our next meeting will actually be.

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um uh After this means, we have the december 13th meeting. We are not having the first wednesday of.

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The month meeting for january, which I believe would be the third um so then we will have our.

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Regularly scheduled work session meeting in january. um That's all I have thank you.

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Good, thank you. I'm just grabbing my calendar to make sure I update it um accordingly.

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Since january 4th, I apologize so january 4th we've canceled, okay,.

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Meeting would be january 17th, yes, okay, perfect, okay, perfect! Thank you.

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Foreign well then, we'll move on to item six, uh which is rezoning case number 229 hutton street.

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21 llc, and I believe this is an introduction, and my agenda indicates that this is going to.

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Be presented by ms weber, that's correct! This is just an introduction this evening uh of neo.

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Zoning, um so hannah will be briefing you on that we've seen quite a few of these.

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Come through recently, you've had two in the last couple months and you have two more coming up so.

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This is the first of the two hannah good evening: everybody um as linda, linda, introduced and as.

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You can see we are here to talk about another rezoning that has come through the department.

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um This is being represented by the uh clark schaefer, I'm not sure if he wants.

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To introduce himself and his people at this time or after my presentation.

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The lawyer representing uh hutton street 21., I have on the call with.

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Me mark zimmerman the uh the engineer and jennifer greer, who is a uh principal with.

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uh Hutton street so uh we're here and uh hannah, it's your show. I guess.

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Thank you sounds good, so this rezoning is rezoning case. 229 hunting, street 21 llc.

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This rezoning case is in the eldersburg area you can see. We are just north of maryland, 26th and.

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East of the georgetown boulevard intersection. This property is currently improved with a car.

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Wash in a gas station, the starbucks is right. Here we have the shop big shopping center here.

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With oscars the I think, there's a dollar tree in there and then obviously all the residential area.

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To the north and to the east, the request has been to re-zoned a portion of the property from our 20.

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000 to c2 commercial medium, the applicant is arguing a mistake in the last comprehensive.

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Rezoning, we are in election district 14 and commissioner district 4.

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uh You're in commissioner district five- oh sorry,.

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Yeah, that's! Okay! Yes, yes, commissioner district, five, hannah, sorry about that.

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Okay, so, as I said, the existing zoning is our 20 000 and c2. um The request is.

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To rezone this back portion of r20000 to c2, this is approximately 1.9 acres of land.

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um The surrounding area has been zoned uh commercially and residentially since 1965 and.

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The actual subject property has been split: zoned between the commercial and residential since 1965.

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And that's it for my presentation, um just a brief introduction, but at the december 13th.

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Meeting on tuesday, we are going to be discussing the arguments presented by the applicant with.

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The applicant and then discussion of staff findings and then we will be looking for.

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A favorable or unfavorable recommendation to the board of county commissioners from you all.

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Very good well, given that this is an introduction. We typically don't get into this too deeply, uh but.

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Understanding it's an introduction. Does any member of the commission have any questions.

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Right uh hearing none, it sounds like then, we'll be looking forward to the presentation.

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um Next time- and we thank mr shaffer and mr zimmerman and ms greer for being available.

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This evening, so thank you very much you thank you. We look forward to seeing you.

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At the next meeting, all right, thank you all have a good evening. Yes, thank you. Bye-Bye.

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Miss weber, thank you. I think uh I think that wraps it up for this evening, appreciate that. Thank you.

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Have a good evening, you too all right, we'll move on to item seven, which is the transportation.

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Master plan uh discussion set up for this evening, hi so af claire stewart this evening, who is going.

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To be presenting terribly tony town this evening is that correct claire um that next chapter of the.

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Transportation master plan, so I'm just going to go ahead and turn it over to claire. To give you.

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A presentation regarding um where we are with the plan and the next sub area that we're working on.

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Claire hi yeah, thank you linda. um So, as linda said, this is chapter five of the draft transportation.

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Master plan on the tontitown sub area, so you have already seen manchester hampstead um mount airy.

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Finksburg and then the eldersburg sykesville um sub areas. So this is the fifth sub area and then.

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We have one more westminster, which mary lane will present um at the december 13th business meeting.

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So I guess we'll go ahead and get started. um You all should have received um two pdfs.

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um So I'm going to start with the text pdf. Let me share my screen.

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Okay, can everyone share my screen or see my screen? Yes, we can see it. Okay, great.

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Okay, so starting with the road network, um the 2010 sub area is centered or on maryland, 140 a.

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Principal arterial, which provides access southeast to westminster and west to emmitsburg and maryland.

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194, a minor arterial except for through 20 towns, historic downtown, where it's upgraded to a major.

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Arterial um and 194 provides access southwest into frederick county and northeast into pennsylvania.

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Next section, land use and demographics there's a low overall growth rate on a regional level, but.

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The highest rate for the county, this population growth, is expected in the northeast quadrant of.

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140 and 194, driven by a 300 plus lot development and moderate employment growth is expected in the.

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Southeast quadrant of 140 and 194, where there's a significant amount of undeveloped industrial land.

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And then the next section commuter flows for outgoing flows, 20 of 20 town residents commute.

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To westminster um and 12 percent of frederick and baltimore counties and for incoming commuter flows.

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A quarter of workers come from within the sub area and another quarter come from pennsylvania.

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Next section, local rules and policies.

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um The 20 town comprehensive plan encourages separation of local residential vehicular.

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Traffic from all other traffic that includes major highway access to industrial areas,.

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The next action exists in traffic conditions.

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um Traffic congestion in the sub area is modest. There's slight congestion along 140.

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In the pm peak hour, um at maryland, 194 and at grand drive and chevron drive and if you can.

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See my cursor, this is the 194 140 intersection and the grand drive chevron drive intersection.

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um Next section, 2040 traffic conditions with no improvements.

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um By 2040, the maryland 140 intersections at travanian road and grand drive chevron.

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Drive are anticipated to worsen by one level of service letter in the pm peak hour. So again,.

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If you can see my cursor there's travanian and then the grand drive on chevron drive.

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It's the next section planning approach, um the 2010 greenway, also known as antrim boulevard,.

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Extension would remove truck traffic from downtown taneytown and would revitalize the historic.

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Downtown by reducing overall vehicle throughput noise and air pollution, um preliminary design.

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Was completed in 2007., while the greenway has consistently been in the county master plan and.

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The city of tony town comprehensive plan- it has not appeared in the county's priority letter since.

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2013 and it has not been in the last two editions of bmc's long range long-range transportation plan.

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And the roadway has never received funding for final design or construction.

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And then worthington boulevard is a planned roadway to the northwest of town.

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um To its east, it would connect to 194 and it's to its south, to the tiny town greenway.

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um It's not in the county's priority ladder or regional plans. No land has been acquired.

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For right-of-way and there are significant environmental constraints with that alignment.

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So the next section is recommended approach, future construction of both of those roadways. The interim.

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Boulevard extension and worthington boulevard should be linked to residential or industrial.

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Development of the parcels they would serve and developers should be required to construct.

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Roadway segments, in accordance with the alignments identified in the 2010 comprehensive plan, um it's.

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Worth mentioning in chapter six, which you'll be reviewing in january and february of next.

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Year on, both of these roadways are recommended to remain in the plan as planned, major streets.

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um So in the short and medium term, the recommendation is to make small improvements.

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To key intersections and provide a partial bypass to reroute large vehicle traffic out of downtown.

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um From here we have uh two recommended most.

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Promising potential improvements, so I'm going to switch to another page.

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um So the the two mppis for tony town, um one is to extend allendale lane and antrim boulevard.

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And then two is to extend the left turn bay from northbound 140 onto westbound 194.

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um So number one allendale lane and antrim boulevard- this roadway would be approximately five.

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Thousand feet long and what allow trucks from the east intending to access industrial areas, south of.

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Taneytown, to avoid the downtown area and the left her northbound maryland 140 on the westbound 194.

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um The roadway would be a substantially lower cost improvement than constructing.

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The full greenway it would avoid the floodplain impacts of the roadway.

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Construction west of 194 and a portion of the right-of-way is already owned by the county.

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And that's this uh this top alignment here and then the second mppi is to extend the left turn.

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Bay from northbound 140 on to maryland 194., um this would make it easier for vehicles.

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To bypass trucks, waiting to turn left on the maryland 194, reducing congestion and delays.

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I'm going to flip back over um and then the last section is benefits and impacts.

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um So the benefits and impacts of these two mppis is to ease up congestion along 140.

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um And to contribute to a more quiet, clean and comfortable, um downtown tawny, town street state.

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So that concludes my presentation. um Are there any questions.

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uh This is jeff, I don't think I have any uh questions is any.

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Other member of the commission have any questions.

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Claire, I think your presentation made good sense to us, so thank you for that. Okay, all.

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Right, thank you guys appreciate it have a nice evening, you as well.

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Very good, we'll move on to uh item eight, which is general public comment. Do we have any any.

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Folks, on the line this evening for general public comment, there are two people on the line.

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um I'm not sure uh what item they're here to comment for richard king and a dick king.

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Not here, it's not here to comment: okay, okay,.

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um So um we have no google comment then, this evening, all right! Well then, with that we'll.

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Move on to item nine, which is adjournment, um is there a motion that we adjourn.

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This is short and sweet. I moved very good. We have a motion. Is there a second? A second: is there any.

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Discussion about how efficiently I run meetings yep, ed rosting, on this on this one. It's obviously.

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Was our previous commissioner, who drugged these these meetings out yeah? Thank you, commissioner.

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All right all right, all in favor of adjourning, please say.

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Aye aye aye, all right, everybody have a very nice evening. Thank you all very much.