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32 1 Tom Hester: Tom Hester again and I have two answers, I guess. One is that the communities 2 that I've investigated are very similar to this location. Where you have a of a combination of 3 agricultural uses, wooded land, and residential uses. So, very similar in surrounding counties in 4 central North Carolina. I've also investigated in Catawba County and further west and I went 5 there because I think there's five or six, farms there and a couple of the largest farms in the 6 State. And so I really wanted to look at the communities around where they are more prevalent 7 and more has been developed and where they are larger. And really the same finding's there. 8 Even surrounding the larger farms there is no effect on the sales prices. When the properties 9 sell, when the house sells — and I really try to focus on residential uses rather than large land 10 tracks. I think if the houses aren't affected, I think the bigger tracks of land are not going to be 11 affected. So I was really focusing on the residential uses. 12 13 Pete Hallenbeck: And, of course, your report is entered as evidence. So the Planning Board 14 will be able to review that, correct. 15 16 Tom Hester: Good. Thank you. 17 18 Pete Hallenbeck: And I think we have a question from a Commissioner. 19 20 Commissioner Rich: I have a question. I think this is possibly for Mr. Harvey. Can you just 21 run through the process so we're talking about a portion of this property that's as Commissioner 22 Dorosin asked, is staying one property, it's not being broken down into any or into two parcels. 23 What is the process for development of the other part of the property? 24 25 Chair McKee: We have to follow the procedure. I'm sorry. You'll get a chance to speak. 26 27 Michael Harvey: One of the conditions that'll be associated with the Special Use Permit is, 28 obviously, it'll have to go through a subdivision process. As this will be an exempt subdivision — 29 meaning it'll be larger than 10 acres—will be exempt. And what that translates to is that the 30 County Planning Staff will actually have to verify that the boundaries of the new lot here actually 31 comply with any approved site plan for the Special Use Permit. But it will be reviewed and 32 approved through the exempt process. Meaning, we're not going to do anything else other than 33 verify its compliance with the SUP. As far as development of the southern parcel of the 34 property, it will allowed — be allowed to develop consistent with its current zoning. The issuance 35 of the SUP has no bearing on this potential parcel of property. So, for example, if it was an 36 undeveloped parcel, could they develop a single family residence on it? The answer is yes. 37 They would have to go through the site plan review process or the plot plan review process as 38 spelled out in section 2.4 of the Unified Development Ordinance, consistent with the building 39 permit application. 40 41 Patrick Mallet: I would just like to add to that. The revisions that they submitted today, clarify 42 that there's a line that defines the limits of the Special Use Permit. 43 44 Commissioner Rich: Sorry, I didn't get a chance to read that until it got set down. 45 46 Patrick Mallet: Understood. 47 48 Commissioner Rich: I wasn't in my easy chair, checking it out. 49 50 Patrick Mallet: It defines the future lot line and the limits of the Special Use Permits. So, 1 51 think, in this case, it's very well specified where they intend to locate the solar arrays. And I