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39 to say, as trees mature the canopy thickens, you lose understory plants and limbs die off. Glenn Bowles: Well.... Larry Wright: Excuse me, I still have the floor. I believe this should be changed and I think that Commissioner Foushee wanted, you wanted us to talk about the buffers u wanted to show us this. This was not changed, two people at quarterly public hearing raised this issue and what is staff's comment? Mark Marcoplos: It would be a relatively easy change. Larry Wright: I know. Glenn Bowles: What do you want changed? We will gladly put it in for you. Larry Wright: Vegetation shall be maintained for understory plants. I am not the staff, you come up with something. Alan Campbell left meeting Glenn Bowles: Part of your statement just isn't true that under story does grow. Larry Wright: I totally disagree with you and I can point to photographs of my woods over time. Mark Marcoplos: You could simply say that if it gets degraded over time that you could replenish them. Larry Wright: I think this is a very hard statement to put in there, it is very easy to change. Glenn Bowles: So you want it to say as the over story matures over time Larry Wright: All you have to say is that buffer has to be maintained, to say no vegetation in this area shall be disturbed is just has to go the way it is. Lisa Stuckey: Larry, are you suggesting that you would say, a 200 foot landscaping conservation buffer easement shall be established and maintained along all the other property perimeters? So strike the no vegetation sentence. You might want to say maintain such that the semi - opaque, intermittent visual buffer is maintained. Larry Wright: I think staff can make up something because once this comes to quarterly public hearing again, I am going to be looking at this very closely. Buddy Hartley: Right now there is nothing to maintain.