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88 <br /> z.- ''_ _ • sir--1---- .=.r.:_ -_ _ ._— r_-- ,-•-.._ ._.-....___.- s--=--'s-_._i _.� -" D.LYJi i ', - ZQ <br /> Phears a chance to answer the question before you make a <br /> follow-up. Since Mr. Phears is representing one of the <br /> proponents, we will give him a chance to answer the question <br /> but after Mr. Phears we will ask you to direct your <br /> questions, if anyone has any, only to the proponents. <br /> Unidentified Citizen: Unintelligible comment. <br /> Mr. Phears: Those type of things need to be addressed in the <br /> context of a Special Use application, all of those things <br /> were extensively regulated and they do need to be addressed <br /> in that context. <br /> Mr. Carey: We have another question, Is this a question for <br /> one of his proponents of the staff? O.K. go ahead. <br /> My name is . . . . . Scarlett,, I own property that Mr. . . . .is <br /> Darrell Scarlett: I own property that is North of the <br /> property they are talking about. (The rest of the comment <br /> was unintelligible) . <br /> Spence Dickerson: Do you know how much of the land is <br /> perkable and have you had any soil analysis done on it? <br /> Mr. Phears: Orange County and Nello Teer have been engaged <br /> in an extensive analysis of the perkability of the land, but <br /> it's a lot more complicated than just perkability. In <br /> addition to perkability for septic tanks, you have slope <br /> issues because slopes beyond certain gradation cannot have <br /> septic tanks in them, you have drainage ways, if you have an <br /> area that is consistently wet for example, which there are a <br /> lot of those in there, the Health Department, as I understand <br /> it, does not approve septic tanks in it, and then you have <br /> the soil issues on top of that, then I might also tell you, <br /> this will be a preview far Geoff Gledhill and his folks, that <br /> you would find, if you went out there, that a very high <br /> percentage of the lots that perk are the very lots which <br /> border the interstate, which is unfortunate part, as you get <br /> further away from the interstate on this property, you have <br /> poor soils so that the more desirable residential locations <br /> unfortunately have poor soils. <br /> Spence Dickinson: I. would like to make the comment that I am <br /> developing the use of property that is half that size with <br /> . just the same kinds of problems. Only about a third of it <br /> perks and its on Blackwood mountain so I am dealing with the <br /> same kinds of slopes. I am about the same distance from the <br /> interstate and that is a valuable piece of property. So I <br /> don't believe that what you are saying is true that there is <br /> no use for that property other than a quarry. <br /> Mr. Carey: I would like to move onto the next speaker, Mr. <br /> Jack Tapp. <br />