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043 THE JOHN R. McADAMS COMPANY, INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS POST OFFICE BOX 14005 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA 27709 (919) 361-5000 FAX (919) 361-2269 July 29, 1998 Emily Cameron Orange County Planning Department 306F Revere Road Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 RE: Request for Exception to Tree Protection Areas Lawrence Park PDH-R-3 Development Application DBS-95000 Dear Ms. Cameron: On behalf of EWP Management Inc., the applicants for the proposed Lawrence Park development, we are requesting an exception to the tree protection areas in accordance with the exception policy stated in Section IV-B-8-c-2 of the Subdivi- sion Ordinance of Orange County. In particular we are requesting the exception for the purposes described in Section IV-B-8-c-2-[c] that discusses the necessity to remove trees in order to construct proposed improvements. The full text of that section is attached for reference. The previously submitted landscape plan identifies the wooded areas to be pre- served and shows the proposed street and yard trees to be placed in those areas for which the tree protection clearing exception is requested. The. 85.6 acre site of the proposed Lawrence Park development has approximately 42 acres of open farm field and 43.6 wooded acres. The Lawrence Park application proposes to preserve 13 acres of the existing wooded area as: 1) perimeter buffer, 2)* rear yard tree protection area for lots abut- ting the perimeter buffer, and 3) interior park and recreation land. In addition the plan proposes to plant 830± trees in the 7.4 acres of currently open field areas that will be the 100 feet wide perimeter buffer along Lawrence Road.