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Michelle Kempinski: Are you using the 85-acre tract to calculate the number of lots? <br />Bruce Ballentine: The density of the two parent tracts is included. <br />Michelle Kempinski: Previously we used different numbers when calculating the open space. Why not <br />use the same numbers? <br />Glenn Bowles: These can be considered estate lots, which use different calculations, The residual lot can <br />be considered as an estate lot, and al] open space in it. We based the open space calculation on the <br />subdivision as submitted. The Tanaka tract is not actually a part of the preliminary subdivision, but since <br />it is a part of the parent tract, the area cannot be further subdivided. <br />Robert Davis: This is no longer part of the subdivision. <br />Bruce Ballentine: 22 lots is the absolute maximum that could ever be developed on the two pazent tracts. <br />Glenn Bowles: The Ordinance specifies the order to check the numbers. Step 1 is to calculate the yield <br />analysis. Once the subdivision is established, step 2 is to calculate open space of the subdivision, <br />Renee Price-Saunders: So, by removing the Tanaka tract from the subdivision, it cannot be further <br />subdivided ih the future? <br />Robert Davis; The density only allows one or two lots on the Tanaka tract, which will not change, The <br />density calculation including the Tanaka tract was used in determining the density, That goes with the iot <br />of record. <br />Judith Wegner: What power does the Planning Board have regarding the assumptions for sustainable <br />water supply and usage? <br />Glenn Bowles: North Carolina water laws prescnbe a reasonable use dochine. Existing and future <br />potential property owners have reasonable expectations of use of the groundwater, State law does not <br />specify those levels. <br />Judith Wegner: I understand the rights issue, I'm questioning more the linkage between the regulatory <br />capacity and use as it applies to the allowable density, How does the water draw apply? <br />Glenn Bowles: We use the USGS Study that was done in the 1990s that suggested that density of 2-3 <br />acres per lot could be sustained under natural conditions based on nonnal groundwater flow, <br />Judith Wegner: It would seem we have the density protocol regulations that don't say for us to try to <br />regulate water usage. <br />Jay Bryan: We don't have water regulatory authority. <br />Renee Price-Saunders: We are waiting ko heaz from Geoff' Gledhill, County Attorney as to what we can <br />do about establishing thresholds for water usage, As we've seen from the various presentations, this is a <br />complicated subject, <br />40 <br />