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EJG Ventures' traffic appeal and commercial PD are tabled after applicant offers to remove gas station
Summary
The applicant for a proposed ~72,200 sq ft commercial center appealed staff's technical denial of a traffic impact analysis; the developer committed to removing the convenience store/gas station from the plan to reduce trips and to perform off‑site intersection improvements. The board tabled final action on the PD and TIA appeal to allow updated technical memos and written commitments.
Planning staff introduced TIA Appeal 2026‑2 and PD‑2026‑3 for EJG Ventures (Eric Gibson). Staff said the submitted TIA failed to meet the county's higher level‑of‑service mitigation threshold under the Unified Development Ordinance although it met NCDOT standards. The applicant's traffic consultant (DRMP) reviewed the TIA, and the applicant offered to remove the convenience store and gas pumps from the plan to reduce trip generation.
Eric Gibson told the boards: "We are making vast, very important, very needed improvements to this intersection, and we're going to do that," and he and his traffic team described a package of lane widenings, dual left‑turn lanes, receiving lanes and restriping that they proposed to construct. DRMP's updated trip memo presented a roughly 2,900‑daily‑trip reduction if the convenience store is removed and replaced by smaller retail uses.
Trilogy HOA representatives asked that deed‑restriction language and use restrictions be incorporated into the PD notes (for example, golf‑cart‑only connections and a 20‑foot berm with a fence and landscape buffer). Staff recommended continuing the hearing to allow the applicant to submit a technical update showing the revised modeled build conditions; the board voted to table final action on PD‑2026‑3 and associated appeals until September 21 to allow staff and the applicant time to finalize those materials.
