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Approved 12/8/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/13/2014 Page 6 of 17 Walt Tysinger: The transplanting traditions community gardens are in this area, which is a fenced area, roughly an 1 acre and half. The black space is the vegetable processing center and their greenhouse. That is where they bring all 2 their produce they have from the garden and there is an existing well that is in the community gardens used for 3 irrigation and there are parking areas in different location around the gardens. We left building envelopes for future 4 vegetation, vegetable processing center to enlarge the existing one. There are a few sites for hoop framed 5 greenhouses to do cultivation. There are sites for a ground mounted tank units. The fields in front of the garden area 6 will be left in the natural state. 7 8 Katherine Baer: That is one of our vibrant programs out there. The second programming area we have is our 9 environmental learning outside program. Learning outside is a second group. This is an environmental education 10 experimental program for mostly young kids and the kids are outside all the time learning about nature and really 11 trying to connect to nature in a way they don’t get to usually. She has 10-12 kids out there in the morning part of the 12 day generally younger kids and then an after school program where she has 8-12 kids. There is no camping, no 13 overnight, no plans for any overnight and then there are summer day camps that would be similar to 12 kids on the 14 property. 15 16 Walt Tysinger: The programs happen in this general area; this is the campus. The existing buildings consists of a 17 metal building, we call it a lab. It was actually built by Mr. Urban who was a biochemist at UNC and he built a lab for 18 his grad students to do research on. We have converted it into a small office space for the stewardship department 19 and TLC and there is a shop there. 20 21 T.C. Morphis: Mr. Tysinger, how many offices are in the lab building? 22 23 Walt Tysinger: Just one office. 24 25 T.C. Morphis: Do you plan to expand the office space? 26 27 Walt Tysinger: If we do expand the office space, it will be remodeling and probably expand in a way there are 28 designated areas around the existing structure for potential features. Currently none of the educational programs 29 happen inside the structure. This is used for storage. There is an existing barn where most of the classes are held. 30 T.C. Morphis: Is a roofed structure the meeting space, 1,300 square feet where the group tends to meet in the 31 morning? 32 33 Walt Tysinger: There is a smaller meeting space that is 600 square feet. An existing concrete pad that is part of an 34 old barn and then there is a well and a parking that has enough parking for 28 cars and one bus currently as it is. We 35 left room for possibly overflow parking and expansion and I did mention that we have additional parking around the 36 transplanting gardens as well. The two other smaller structures are old barns that were existing and we use that for 37 storage of the Triangle Land Conservancy equipment and we have designated space building envelopes for future 38 expansion of the storage space for the Triangle Land Conservancy. That is what these guidelines represent here. 39 40 Katherine Baer: That is the third; the second use is we have a pro-educational program. The second would be 41 Triangle Land Conservancy and stewardship and I will tell you that our stewardship staff is Walt and our colleague 42 Kyle. Two people right now and maybe in 30 years get in for six people. This is an aspirational help preserve our 43 properties all over the triangle. That is the stewardship part of the permit application. The third use is Triangle Land 44 Conservancy occasional membership events. For example, having our membership meeting where we open the 45 property to all members and the public on a Saturday to come and tour the site and see what we do. We may do a 46 small fundraiser; we apparently used to have an event called the green jamboree which was a fundraiser. The 47 normal hours of operation are 8:00 until 5:00. All programming is off the site by then. On occasion, our stewardship 48 staff which may work late may come back later to bring things back to the storage shed, etc. Again, the potential 49