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47 <br /> So, with that said, I did have the map shown and along with several other colored versions <br /> along with the traffic plan, since your prints are not in color, and because of the legibility, may be <br /> diminished. Should you have questions, I can scroll to those, and I would additionally like for <br /> these PDF versions of this to be entered into the record, as well as everything else we've <br /> submitted in the staff's packet. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck: Are there any questions from the Board members, for the applicant? Yes. <br /> Commissioner Dorosin: Other than the colors on these, is there anything different than what <br /> we've already got? <br /> Chad Abbott: No, Sir. We thought it best to— and in case some of the public had questions of <br /> what's new, what's not. So on —what the screen you have before you, the red buildings are the <br /> new buildings. We put a legend on the side of the plans for you guys to see what was <br /> proposed. They're labeled P buildings, E is for existing. And this is just a colored version of <br /> what you had to help with the Public and anybody else that had any questions. <br /> Commissioner Rich: I don't know if this question is for you or for our staff. How come the <br /> septic system is reviewed by the State as opposed to Orange County? <br /> Chad Abbott: It is because the system at this site—and we designed these as well — I don't <br /> know that we designed this system, but the system at this site, there was no conventional septic <br /> field big enough for the uses on this site when it was built as a school. So therefore, they took <br /> in the State—that is by Orange County deferred to the State, for design and approval by a <br /> consultant and the State approves an Alternate Septic System, is what it's called. And it's an <br /> alternate septic system. It's not your conventional septic tank with drain lines. It's a spray field. <br /> Commissioner Rich: Follow up? So as you get more students in here, and you're building <br /> more and more, it says that you're going to need to have additional septic field capacity? <br /> Chad Abbott: Possibly, yes. <br /> Commissioner Rich: Do you have room to have the additional capacity for the septic fields? <br /> Chad Abbott: The way that would work would be an additional design. You know, the reason <br /> for these alternative systems is that you don't have soil that perks, in the first place. And so <br /> there's —you can look at the campus- there is abundant room to design an alternate system, <br /> such that it can be —the discharge of those systems, or the spray, or the drip of those systems <br /> is, is predicated by the infiltration rate of the soil. So whatever—there is abundant land, in <br /> whichever section, if needed to add on to the existing system, you know would just be, the <br /> design would be per that section of land. It's not a matter of it could be designed, it can be. It's <br /> just whether or not— if it doesn't perk, you know it just requires a little bit more area, which <br /> there's abundant area on the site. If one of the buildings shown creates a volume of waste <br /> water that can't be treated on site, then obviously they'd just wouldn't be able to build that <br /> building. <br /> Commissioner Rich: And is that also regulated by the State, as you grow? So you would <br /> have to get the State to approve that? <br /> Chad Abbott: I think, I think, yes, I think the building permits with the County somehow through <br /> this approval — I'm not going to speak for them — but would be tracked. The occupancy of each <br />