PD #2025-3 – RK Investments apartments

Speaking for the Denver Beautification Committee, she opposed the project, citing past unfulfilled road promises (River Cross), water and sewer capacity doubts, and grid strain.

Speaking for ELBA, he opposed approval until failing intersections are fixed, citing the 2019 mobility study's seven failing intersections and 14 crash hotspots.

She detailed alleged errors in the traffic study — wrong trip-generation code, wrong road classifications — and cited rising crash data and unequal utility cost burdens on East Lincoln.

A former home builders' association president, he offered rare support, citing the $120 million tax base, walkability, and the social need for apartments for teachers and first responders.

A lifelong Iron Station resident who acknowledged change is inevitable but urged slowing growth until roads and schools catch up.

She focused on overcrowded Denver schools, teacher shortages, and her daily experience sitting through multiple light cycles at Pilot Knob, calling the traffic study 'a joke.'

She questioned how the project's North Pilot Knob exit would help Hagars Ferry residents, who already struggle to turn left onto 16.

He compared the new traffic study to the 2017 Publix apartments study, calling the new one 'the worst excuse for a traffic study' and disputing the 45% trip distribution and daycare pass-by assumptions.

A retired traffic engineer, he said his own Kimley-Horn projection exceeded the developer's, that the intersection is level of service F not B, and urged an independent study.

He asked about the timeline tied to Carrington's final certificate of occupancy and summed up the room: 'We're not saying no. We're saying not yet.'

A recent Long Island transplant, he warned against unplanned growth, urged bonding developer road promises, and called for real planning with parks and schools.

He said 'we don't need traffic studies' and asked why the project can't be scaled back, noting Denver already has plenty of development.

She corrected the trip figure to 2,182 total daily trips and detailed complaints from residents at RK's existing Brookline and Proximity at North Lake properties — pests, towing, security issues.

He argued it's an infrastructure problem, not a people problem — suggesting the county sue NCDOT — and noted school overcrowding and the lack of recreation facilities.

She argued the traffic study ignores cumulative growth from already-approved developments, noted Duke Energy's potassium iodide distribution as an emergency-planning red flag, and said the area already has 11 medical facilities and 8 childcare centers nearby.