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PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
Glen Lindemann Discusses the Brawlev School Road Building Permit Ordinance:
"Good Evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Glen Lindemann and I am with the Iredell County
Growth Commission.
"It has been a month since the April 17th meeting when the ineffective Building Permit Ordinance was
passed by the Board. Since then, has anything been done at the County level to improve the health and
safetyfor the residents of BSR? If the growth can not be slowed down, what can be done? After two hours
of expert testimony concerning the safety issues to the residents along BSR, we believe that the
Commissioners are now extremely vulnerable to a law suit if you fail to do some meaningful improvements.
If someone dies in a head on crash or f someone dies because an ambulance is stuck along BSR, we can
see the BOC being held as criminally negligent for ignoring all of the warnings. You can bet when, not if
that happens, your friends who supported the amendment will all run for cover.
"There was a list of about a dozen smaller items that could and should be worked on now. At the top of the
list is to provide traffic officers at two or three critical locations for two hours in the morning and two
hours in the evening rush hours during the school year. These officers can keep traffic flowing better than
the traffic lights and help emergency vehicles get through traffic gridlock.
"How can this be funded? If we assume three officers for four hours a day for the 200 school days per year,
it would cost $60,000 if the officers get $251hour. Since there is no slow down in building permits along BSR
you could increase the permit fees by $100 and generate $35,000 if 350 permits are issued along BSR or
generate $70,000 if the fees were increased by $200. This was discussed with some of the BSR builders and
they believe that many of their associates would support this extra fee.
"Next, if either Iredell County or Mooresville funds or both are tapped, a simple right turn lane can be
installed at the intersection of BSR and Oaktree. This will allow evening rush hour traffic to better flush
itself out during the very long red light cycles.
"Some other relatively inexpensive quick fixes that we would like to include are
1) Look to stagger the school hours for the students attending the schools along BSR (not all of Iredell
County).
2) Temporarily open the back gate to Woodland Heights Elementary, to allow local Blume Road and
Shavender Bluff residents to drop off and pick up their students without traveling on BSR. The road does
not even have to be paved, just open the gate.
3) Repaint the lanes along BSR. They are impossible to see at night and in the rain.
4) Pressure Crescent to provide more well sites to insure adequate water supply for BSR residents.
5) Require Duke to release an up to date evacuation plan for BSR before their relicensing hearings
are completed.
6) Put someone in charge of the task to set priorities on the list of recommendations from the Planning
Board.
"After more than a year of study, and countless campaign promises, as Commissioners, you have done
nothing to control the growth or improve the infrastructure in South Iredell. Has the BOC, charged anyone
with the task to bring any of these items forward as an ordinance for a vote? The residents of BSR are
looking for some action to help with the health and safety problems that were identified so clearly last
month. When can we expect to see some action from our elected officials? "
Ken Jurnev Discusses Volunteer Fire Denartment Related Matters:
"I am a member of the business planning committee, and the fire chief's council asked me to
monitor fire -related business at tonight's meeting. 1 appreciated the fact -based data questions that were
raised at this afternoon's planning session. The business plan that was presented at the November
planning session includes much of the fact -based data based on pre -valuation figures. We look forward
to Mr. Doolittle updating that information, and I think you will find that the data is verifiable and will
show that the insurance savings that we have represented are much greater than what we've
represented. We look forward to the county putting together the figures. The county fire chiefs
recognize that with Troutman pulling out, or having their own fire district, that it would roughly be the