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00044 He asked that the document not reference the Orange Alamance Water Authority but to be more general. 2. EXPANSION OF UOEbWE RA'G'ED DI RTCT-CANE. CREFR Motion was made by Commissioner Lloyd, seconded by Coamnissioner Walker to approve the expansion of the Cane Creek insurance rated district from four (4) road miles to five (5) road miles subject to review and approval by the County Attorney. VOTE: UNANIMOUS. 3. FIRE PROTECTION CONTRACT FOR THE WHITE CROSS COMMUNITY Motion was made by Camissioner Lloyd, seconded by Coamnissioner Walker to approve a contract with the White Cross Fire District Trustees for the purpose of providing fire protection to the White Cross Fire District and meet the requirements to be eligible to apply for Farmers Home Administration funding. The approval is contingent upon the review and approval of the contract by the County Attorney. VOTE: UNANIMOUS. 8. PD-4-85 CHANDLER CO 4CRE'I'E COMPANY Chair Willhoit noted for the record that the recommendation from the Planning Board had been received at a previous meeting. In response to the request by the Board at the September 30 meeting that additional landscaping be required of the applicant, Planner Susan Smith illustrated on drawings the applicants' proposal. On the original site plan, the applicant proposed an eighteen-foot landscape strip across the front of the property on the southeast side of the right-of-way, continuing on the other side of the proposed driveway for a distance of 46 feet. It enters into the south railroad right-of-way and goes beyond the southern boundary of the proposed retention ponds. The plan also proposed to maintain the existing vegetation adjacent to the railroad right-of-way. Smith then presented a drawing which illustrated the application of the Planning Board's conditions of approval. The applicant proposes an eighteen-foot strip with Deodora Cedars and Japanese Hollys as the hedge material and a six-foot stockade fence along the front right-of-way which continues along the side for forty six feet. The Planning Board recommended that the landscape treatment be continued to the center of the right-of-way of the southern most portion of the property and along the southeastern edge of the property. That would satisfy some conditions in the current Ordinance with regard to landscape treatment. Smith reviewed requirements for an application of this type. Article 12 speaks specifically to two things: (1) peripheral and frontage landscaping, and (2) screening requirements. Article 12.4.a states: "A landscaping area of ten (10) feet in depth shall be located between the abutting right-of-way and any off-street parking, loading or other vehicular use area, except where permitted driveway openings are to be provided." Article 12.4.b states: "The landscaping area shall be planted in accordance with the following standards: 1. One (1) tree shall be planted for each forty (40) linear feet of the landscaping area. 2. A hedge or other durable landscape material of at least three (3) feet in height shall be planted or erected within the landscaping area so as to provide a continuous landscape barrier."