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Approved 1/11/2016 OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 7 of 48 shade any potential car lights. 1 2 So we’re still hoping for a condition being implemented with the approval of the permit that would allow us to work through that 3 solution. Now back to the lighting, I just want to clarify that these light fixtures as required by the county ordinance would be what’s 4 called a full cut-off fixture and the illustration on the left shows that, so all the lighting from these light fixtures from the parking lot is 5 a down light, there’s no light projecting up to the night sky, there’s no light projecting out towards neighboring properties, they’re all 6 full cut-off fixtures that put the light down to where it’s needed only and then at the illumination foot candles would be dispersed as 7 … and in this case as I mentioned it would be well before the property lines. Just as an example, if you drive around the country at 8 night and in your neighborhood as well, a lot of people have these, what we call area lights or security lights or yard lights which 9 Duke Power provides, and people have them for keeping their yard and their house area lit at night which provides some safety 10 and so forth but a lot of those fixtures, although they may not be a real high illumination, they don’t disperse the light just down like 11 this does. You can see if you drive around that it disperses light *cough* in some cases. So I just want to emphasize the fact that 12 the lighting on this property at the center of the lot is going to all be projected down with no light being pushed off anywhere else. 13 14 Now these are the sections that Pat showed, just wanted to show there again, the project is located there in the center of the 15 property. There’s still going to have a lot of these wooded areas preserved all around on both sides coming from Morrow Mill Road 16 and Millikan Road, so you’ll be preserving- which Kara wants to do herself, I mean she wants to preserve its character for the barn 17 and the country aspect of this facility so just want to illustrate that those trees on both directions will be preserved and the barn will 18 be situated in the middle of the property. You’ve seen the abstract elevations of the barn, it’s in the packs that you have, members 19 of the Board. What Kara’s doing is just assembling a barn from upstate New York, an 1800’s era barn. Moving the timber frame of 20 that barn down here and reconstructing it here on this site, which I’ve seen pictures of the existing barn, we don’t have them in 21 here but it’s a beautiful structure. The craftsmanship from the 1800’s in phenomenal and to be able reuse that back here on this 22 site is just a really good thing. So that’s my presentation. Questions now or later? 23 24 Karen Barrows: Are there any questions for Mr. Smith at this point? 25 26 Barry Katz: I have a question… When you showed the color of a diagram of the site and you have listed there for us that there 27 are other substantial potential septic area and I’m just wondering, you don’t know how large your septic area will be within that? 28 29 Tim Smith: I do, the area that’s shown if at all meets Orange County’s approval when applying for the permit would be less 30 required. So that kind of yellowed out area there, but I don’t have the number in my head. 31 32 Barry Katz: But tell me, if you put a septic field in there will you be taking all the trees down? 33 34 Tim Smith: It will be spot cleared; it won’t be mass cleared. You can put a septic field in without clearing all the trees. 35 36 Barry Katz: And they’ll still stand after you do this? 37 38 Tim Smith: It depends on the species; I mean it’ll have to be done carefully.... A big large tree… 39 40 Barry Katz: So essentially, as far as large standing trees which would be consistent with the character of what appears to be the 41 wooded area, that would be kind of lost in that particular area, right? 42 43 Tim Smith: In that particular area, yeah. But as you can see we still have some.. right down to the road. 44 45 Barry Katz: Yeah, and off to the east though it’s fairly thin as far as over here to the east. 46 47 Tim Smith: Yeah, it is, and that’s where we’ve shown on our landscape buffering plan we’re going to have to put in additional 48 plantings to meet that buffer. 49 50 Barry Katz: I don’t recall what those plantings consisted of. Do you happen to know what you’re putting in there? 51 52 Tim Smith: I don’t think… the schedule in here, let’s see. 53