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this County, adhere to the ordinance, and also do what we can to answer any questions that you guys might have tonight. So my main objective is to walk through the site plan with you guys and explain kind of what we're doing. So if you can turn to tab one please for me. There are a couple of things I would like to point out with this site plan. What you will notice is we have three inverter stations located here, here and here. You will also notice that the main entrance to the property comes off Cascade Drive. The reason that location was initially chosen was because of the ease of the location. There is grading —there is no grading that needs to be done there. We essentially can put our road in and travel up through the site much easier than if we came off the other drive access. If we came off this way, there are many trees that we would have to cut and remove to get a road up through there. So that was the initial reason that that location was picked. This inverter right here, which was kind of, probably most of the concern to the public - This inverter is located 117 feet off the main road. So the noise level of that inverter at 10 feet away is roughly 68 decibels. As you move out that number to the 117 foot mark, you are in roughly the 46 decibel range, to 44, and that does not include the buffer that will be placed in the property. So, that would be considering if you were open in a field, and it was just coming across that open area with nothing else for those sound waves to bounce off of. Another thing to make note of is this is our buffer that comes around the entire property, here. And that buffer, as we will kind of get to in a second, on page 2 of the site plan, includes shrubs as well as undergrowth trees and then above canopy trees for the main purpose, so that that fence line is not something that will be seen. The fence is represented as an 8 foot chain link fence per the ordinance and again it is the purpose of the buffer so that that fence will not be seen to the public or the residents on either side of it. The stream that sits on both sides, we are adhering to the 80 foot buffer around that stream. You will see the small area of trees that will be removed. The reason that tree line comes back where it does, so that we don't have issues with shading the solar panels. All silt fences will be placed in here to control any runoff or storm water that may come if we had a very heavy thunderstorm to take care of that. Site grading will be left as is, so the purpose is not to come in with any type of heavy machinery or equipment and make this site flat. The purpose is to leave it as is and place our panels on the exiting grade. There have been concerns with pesticides and herbicides. There will be none. Twice a year, the site will be mowed. Anything that may come under the panels would use a standard weed whacker to remove that. That will be done with a local landscaping company as well, in the area. Traffic into the site—you will be looking at probably twice a month, and that is just more or less to check on the inverters and make sure everything is functioning as it should. The construction trailer lay down site will be there approximately four months to allow the panels to come in, with approximately a truck per day as panels come in. Traffic from workers are probably 2 to 3 cars a day during that four month period of time and then again after that it will just be a couple of times a month. If we could really quick go over to tab two, which will kind of talk a little bit about the buffer, which I think is very important. The focus of that buffer is the evergreen trees on the— the seven trees —and then I believe it's sixteen or— sixteen trees that come in the 100 foot section. The purpose of these trees right here will be a minimum of eight feet, once planted. Those trees will grow to roughly 30 feet plus. These trees under the canopy will be a minimum, I believe, of 6 feet. Those are 16 evergreens. Eight feet tall —excuse me those will be a minimum of eight, and will not have the growth expectancy of the larger trees, and then the shrubs are roughly under just right in front of the fence line. So again, the purpose of this buffer is so that the residents on the other side do not see the chain link fence that will be there. And that fence is there to protect the property and the assets inside the property.