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May 28, 2010 UNC Letter to Craig Benedict (Planning <br />Director) concerning site plan review. li ;L <br />THE UNLVERSIT"Y <br />of NORT14 CAROLINA <br />at 01-IAP13L HILL <br />VICE CHANCELLOR POR RESEARCH AND ECONOAIIC DEVELOPMENT <br />OPPICE OP THE ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR POIl RESEARCH <br />301 BYNUM HALL T 919 - 962 -0656 <br />CAMPUS BOX 4100 P 919- 962 -6769 <br />CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599 -4100 <br />May 28, 2010 <br />Mr. Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director <br />Orange County Planning and Inspections Department <br />131 West Margaret Lane <br />P.O. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 28278 <br />Re: The University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill <br />Bingham Facility <br />1907 Orange Chapel Clover Garden Road <br />(TMBL 6.33.12/PIN 9728 -93 -1820 <br />Dear Mr. Benedict: <br />On behalf of the University, I want to thank you and Michael Harvey for meeting with <br />UNC staff members Bruce Runberg, Anna Wu and Wendy Hillis on April 29, 2010, to <br />discuss our expansion plans for the Bingham Facility.. We especially appreciate the time <br />and effort that went into the Orange County Planning Department's guidance for <br />navigating the site plan approval process that was provided in the April 9, 2010, letter <br />from Mr. Harvey. <br />Part of that letter was a review of past events related to prior approvals for the Bingham <br />Facility. While for the most part the letter was accurate in its history, we offer the <br />following clarifications for the record. <br />1. In the approval received from the Orange County Planning Department on November <br />22, 2004, for expansion to the UNC Research Resources Facility, Mr. Harvey's letter <br />noted that (5) pig enclosures were included but did not mention the square footage for <br />those enclosures. The approval was for 4,800 square feet for each of these enclosures, <br />for a total of 24,000 square feet. <br />2. While Mr. Harvey's letter states that there was no reference on the 2004 approved site <br />plan to the number of employees that would be working from the property, we would <br />like to note that -the Site Data provided with the University's application stated that <br />there would be 30 employees on site at build -out. <br />3. Mr. Harvey's letter also states that there was no reference on either the 2004 <br />approved site plan or the revised site plan approved by the county July 21, 2006, <br />"denoting the overall size or capacity needs" of the wastewater treatment system <br />necessary for the site. After reviewing the documents, we would clarify that <br />application materials for the 2004 approved site plan show the existing wastewater <br />alam <br />