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() ~ ,1 THE JOHN R. McA,DA,MS 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 aze 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 aze 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 azeas for which the tree protection clearing exception is requested. The 85.6 acre site of the proposed Lawrence Pazk development has approximately 42 acres of open farm field and 43.6 wooded acres. The Lawrence Pazk application proposes to preserve 13 acres of the existing wooded azea as: 1) perimeter buffer, 2) reaz yazd tree protection azea for lots abut- ting the perimeter buffer, and 3) interior pazk and recreation land. In addition the plan proposes to plant 8301 trees in the 7.4 acres of currently open field azeas that will be the 100 feet wide perimeter buffer along Lawrence Road.