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25 <br /> 1 • Zoning : Agricultural Residential (AR). A portion of the property, is located within the <br /> 2 Haw River Protected Watershed Overlay District. <br /> 3 • Future Land Use Map Designation: Agricultural Residential <br /> 4 • Growth Management System Designation: Rural <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Michael Harvey: The portion of the property north of the proposed development is not located <br /> 7 in a protected or critical watershed overlay district, meaning that there are no impervious <br /> 8 surface requirements. However, the applicant will be required to maintain identified and <br /> 9 protected stream buffers and will be required to submit a detailed erosion control and <br /> 10 stormwater management plans as currently required by the Unified Development Ordinance and <br /> 11 State law. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 REQUEST: <br /> 14 • Erect approximately 960 individual solar array panels on a 53 acre portion of the subject <br /> 15 property. <br /> 16 • Typical array is 7 feet in height, with approximately 2 feet of ground clearance, and 47 <br /> 17 feet in length. <br /> 18 • Arrays will be screened by existing vegetation and a 6 foot high chain link security fence, <br /> 19 topped with 3 strand barbed wire, shall enclose the perimeter of the array to prevent <br /> 20 access. <br /> 21 • Gravel paths/drives will be installed around these arrays in order to permit access by <br /> 22 Strata Solar technicians to service the panels. In certain areas there will be natural, <br /> 23 grass, paths depending on soil. <br /> 24 • Vehicular access to the site is restricted by a 24 foot access gate off of White Cross <br /> 25 Road. <br /> 26 • An overhead, medium voltage, power line will be installed on the north of the identified <br /> 27 leased area, adjacent to the existing mobile home park, allowing the proposed facility to <br /> 28 tie into the power grid. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Michael Harvey: This is the copy of the site plan. Very quickly what I would like to do is sort of <br /> 31 identify, here are the individual arrays that we talked about (staff identified the arrays on a map). <br /> 32 This is an existing identified stream, and you will note from your abstract, Attachment 3, under <br /> 33 staff comments, we do have what is known as a Surface Water Identification where Orange <br /> 34 County Erosion Control staff have gone out and verified the location of the stream. Strata Solar <br /> 35 personnel have gone out and verified the location of the stream on the site plan, and the site <br /> 36 plan denotes the required stream buffer as detailed within Article 6 of our zoning, excuse me our <br /> 37 Unified Development Ordinance that will have to be left in a natural state. You will also note <br /> 38 that the site plan delineates required landscaped areas per the Unified Development Ordinance. <br /> 39 They are using what we is defined within Article 6 known as the Overhead Utility Option <br /> 40 landscape standard that would allow smaller trees in order to ensure that a taller tree would not <br /> 41 cast a shadow on the array, rendering it virtually useless. The site will be buffered, however, so <br /> 42 that it will not be visible from White Cross Road, but the trees will be managed so that they don't <br /> 43 interfere with the natural operation of the proposed array. <br /> 44 <br />