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Pursuant to County ordinance requirements, we did notify the property's surrounding the subject property within 500 feet of the proposal. There are 45 individual property owners there that are within the required notification area. This is our proposed site plan. Mr. Harvey has previously shown that to you and it is in your packet. We are proposing 28 lots in conjunction with the rezoning from R-1 to R-8 as demonstrated there on the screen. We do propose a connection to existing sanitary sewer systems in that area. Orange County operates a sanitary sewer system that basically runs along the corner here, across the property to Schoolhouse Road, around Schoolhouse Road, and the property to the east here. Our proposal is to build internal gravity sewer mains along the proposed streets to connect in to the existing manhole at this location and then again over on Tinnin Road to serve all 28 lots. We are proposing public water, as has been mentioned, as an existing 3" water main operated by Orange-Alamance Water System. It provides domestic service in the community, but it will not supply domestic fire suppression volume pressures. We are proposing to build a new public water main off Tinnin Road to serve the site as well as build public water mains within the site and along the proposed streets. The public streets basically feature two access points for the development. The first being off Schoolhouse Road with the access point entering into the site and then oriented toward the north of the property boundary for future extensions, if necessary. We do have an intersecting cul-de-sac street that extends from that street to the west to a cul-de-sac where we serve approximately 10-12 lots in that section. There is also a plan to improve and extend Tinnin Road at the current end of the intersection of Schoolhouse Road, extend it to the north, dedicate a public right-of-way, which currently doesn't exist there and build a new street north of the property line there with the water and sewer facility included. That will kind of formalize that access to the north to a previously existing 60-foot public access easement. The public water main extension we are anticipating tapping, the existing water main out on US 70 and extending the public water main along Tinnin Road back to the intersection of Schoolhouse Road. From that point, we will extend it further into the site along the road construction. As you have seen in our package, we had anticipated an 8" water main for this extension to be sufficient for both domestic and fire protection services and we understand that, through this process, that there will be continued discussion with the County as far as the size of that water main for future growth as well as connection to the recent built property to the west of our site. This just gives you a general layout of that water line. We don't know exactly which side of Tinnin Road it may be on. There will have to be a formal survey of that area done to confirm where the road lies within the public right-of-way to determine the best location for the water main. This is the site plan that we've rendered with some color to help your review of it. A couple of things that I'd like to point out from this slide —the first are the open spaces that we have planned for the project. There are three in the southwestern corner of the property, where the jut out is of the existing tract. We are proposing open space in this area that will also serve the dual purpose of the stormwater management areas. We are proposing, contiguous with the jurisdictional stream in the northwestern portion of the property, an open space area that will further protect the stream buffers in that area that aren't captured by the proposed land use buffer shown in dark green. The third open space area is kind of in the midsection of the property between the two proposed roads and an access is provided for that by way of a public pedestrian easement in this area between the lots.