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Attachment 6 219 Neighborhood Ir f rmafl rn Meeting for the Habitat for Humanity subdivision on the north alas of School House Road at i i Road Media Room at Fuller Road Elementary school from 7:00 to 8:15 loan. April 7, 2011 There were 22 neighbors in attendance. Susan Levi, the Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity in Orange County gave an introductory overview of Habitat's mission. They are a non-profit organization doing business in Orange County for treat -five years. They provide volunteer labor to build affordable homes for those people who normally could not afford one. They are part of Habitat for Humanity, international. With the average price of a new hone to Orange County being around $350,000 and the average rent at nearly $800 per month, their task is diffi ult. They service families with annual incomes from between thirty and sixty percent of the median family income for the County have demonstrated need and are willing to donate 325 hours of sweat equity to the project. This is a Hand Up, not a Hand Out program. Applicants must live In Orange County for at least one year, have permanent Unites States residency, have had a stable income for at least two years, a.nd have had participated in an eight hour hone buyer/owner class. Habitat will provide a thirty-year, zero interest loam for the successful families. They have recently worked on the Phoenix project in Chapel Hill and in the Fairview neighborhood in Hillsborough. The homes are handicapped accessible, are sprinkled, Energy Star compliant, and receive the National Home Builders Association Green Building Bronze Certification. Question:, Do you retrofit existing houses to be Energy Star compliant? Answer." lies, we have an emergency loan fund for such repairs and retrofits. Question: Vlhen will the next application cycle open's Answer: About a year out from now. Tracy Parrott of Summit Consulting, the design engineer for the development, presented an overview of the project design. An application was made to the Orange County Planning Department for a site plan for the Conditional Zoning and Special Use Permit -- Class A. The properties and the surrounding neighborhoods are zoned (Rural Residential). The proposal is to rezone the properties to CZ-R8. The application will be presented to the BOCC and Planning Board at the May 23, 2011 Quarterly Public bearing and should then be referred to the Planning Board at their July meeting for review and recommendation back to the BOCC. The application would then go back to the BOCC in August for final action. The two properties involved together contain 8.984 acres. Twenty -eight lots are proposed. A reduction in required perimeter buffers will be requested. The proposed buffers will be reduced from 75 feet to twenty or fifty feet. The streets will have curb and gutter and not grassed swales because the scales do not look good with this level of housing densities. Water mains will be extended north from the south side of US Highway 70 with eight -inch mains.