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10 <br />5. A summer camp. <br />These lots, east of what is now designated as Lot 31 R, are not part of the previously <br />approved Planned Development. <br />Since 2000, 1 began working with County staff to secure the necessary permits to allow <br />for the continued operation of the creative learning center on these 2 properties. A <br />major problem was the lack of available property to support the installation of the <br />required septic system. <br />In 2002 1 chose to recombine several parcels of property within the Heartwood project in <br />an effort to address septic issues for certain internal lots as well as my existing camp <br />operation. <br />The plat, recorded at Plat Book 90 Page 181, re- allocated lot area for the project and <br />established the necessary septic easements for several lots within the project. <br />This included Lot 31 R, which has the area set aside for the intent of becoming the <br />location of the necessary septic field for my adjacent contiguous existing camp /creative <br />learning center. <br />Unfortunately, planning staff informed me in 2006 that I could not use Lot 31 R to <br />support my camp as the operation was part of a previously approved Planned <br />Development. Staff informed me that they could not allow a parcel of property, already <br />subject to a previously issued Special Use Permit, to be used for a purpose that was not <br />consistent with that previous approval. <br />I was given the option of either: <br />a. Modifying the existing Planned Development by placing the camp under the <br />restrictions of the existing Planned Development permit or <br />b. I could remove what is now referred to as Lot 31 R from the Planned <br />Development, rezone it, and eventually recombine it with the camp property in <br />order for it to serve the wastewater disposal needs for my camp. <br />After a review of the situation, which included securing a professional soil scientist to <br />verify that the lot would serve my needs, I have decided to submit this request to <br />formally remove Lot 31 R from the Heartwood Planned development and rezone it to <br />Rural Buffer with the ultimate intent of re- combining the property with my existing camp <br />to address various septic issues associated with that operation and to build the <br />Bunkhouse previously approved, now that there a sufficiently sized septic system. <br />