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Attachment 6 221 Tinnin Woods Neighborhood Information Meeting 2 o'clock noon, Monday, May 9, 2011 in the Ground Floor* conference Boon 131 lest Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Citizens in attendance; Annie M. whined, George E. Whi ted, Wilbert McAdoo, Robert and Elvis Mebane, and Louie Ramsom Riley. Planning staff summarized to proposed development in that it has changed. It now has 28 lots and landscape buffers are proposed around lots 12 and 28 that were not designated previously. A trail connecting the proposed open space to the Richmond Hills trail system and the Orange county School District property is also a new addition. The developer has not proposed looping the water mains and would like to construct streets with 27' back-to-back pavement with curb and gutter. Planning staff is recommending a water system extension that brings a 12" water rain from US Highway 70 along Tinnin Road to its northern terminus and looping the water mains east into the Ashwick Subdivision and west into the Richmond Hills Subdivision. The eastern loop will require a modification to the existing 60' access easement for the four -lot subdivision at the end of Tinnin Road to include a utility easement for construction and maintenance of the system. Mr. Mebane asked if the eastern water main loop would require additional right -of -way. It would not, but there would have to be an arrangement between the developer and the affected parties to permit such an extension. Ms. Whitted asked if existing water users along Tinnin Road would be permitted to attach to the new 2" water main. The answer was a qualified yes, but the fee for such a replacement tap was not known. Ms. Riley asked about the nature of the landscape buffers. She thought that since the developer was requesting a waive to reduce the buffer width to as little as twenty feet, there should be some enhancement of the buffer such as additional plantings, a fence or other treatment to better define the buffers so that neighbors would know where they were. There were some genera[ questions regarding how and where the water loop into Richmond Hills would be accomplished. Mr. McAdoo asked where the demographics of the homeowners in the Richmond Hills Subdivision and with habitat for Humanity of Orange counter in general. There seems to be a concentration of such low- and moderate- income families in the immediate areas and existing residents feel as though a community within the community is being created. Also, what were the ranges of total housing cost for the Richmond Bills neighborhood and how will that compare to the Tinnin Woods Subdivision. There were further concerns voiced regarding the quality of the School Douse and Tinnin pavement. NC DOT has requested that the developer post a bond for both goads, ch that in the advent of construction traffic degrading the roadway surfaces, thc,,.re will I } monies available to repave the roads.