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December, 2013 and have had ample opportunities to fine tune the application. They have had an abundance of time as well as corporate-scale financial and human resources at their disposal. I respectfully request that you grant a continuance of the Public Hearing in order to give us a fair and reasonable amount of time to gather credible opposing evidence. I urge you to give particular consideration to the financial harm that will likely befall us and our neighbors if this application as well as to the impacts of noise, visual blight/glare and general inappropriateness of this proposed site. I also ask you to consider the two very important inadequacies in the application that I discuss below. In closing, I want to say that our objection is not necessarily to building solar plants in Orange County. Appropriately sited solar plants can be an asset. However, the siting of this large-scale development is not at all compatible with the area for which it is proposed. Thank you very much for considering our concerns, John Petranka and Sally Gewalt Below I discuss two particular concerns about the proposed development. The first has to do with whether the soil types and compaction study requirement of the UDO has been met for the SUP submission, and the importance of requiring a geotechnical study before a possible SUP approval. The second concerns what I believe is a seriously flawed noise impact projection submitted by Binks, and my own assessment of the potential noise impact of the project. I. Apparent Omission of Soils Report and Compaction Studies Required for an SUP Application of This Nature. In Section 5.9.6 C 1 of the Orange County UDO (page 5-79, of the UDO, revised 3/19/14), Submittal Requirements are listed for Solar Arrays— Public Utility Class A Special Use Permit. There are four submittal requirements as stated here: (C) Standards for Solar Array— Public Utility (Class A Special Use Permit) . (1) Submittal Requirements In addition to the information required by Section 2.7, the following shall be submitted as part of the application: . (a) A site plan showing all existing structures on the property, any proposed buildings or structures that are necessary to support the proposed array, existing and proposed storage areas, parking and access areas, topography at a contour interval of five feet, any officially designated floodplains or alluvial soils. . (b) Plans and elevations for all proposed structures and arrays as well as descriptions of the color and nature of all exterior materials. . (c) Landscape Plan, at the same scale as the site plan, showing existing and proposed trees, shrubs, ground cover and other landscape material . (d) A soils report denoting the types of soil on the property including detail on the compaction necessary to support the proposed development. ---------------- Requirement (d) appears to state in plain language that a soils report and soil