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<br /> 56 <br />Tom Heffner: Typically four not more than five bedrooms. There is a market-wide tendency for smaller houses. 57 <br />These may be more in the 3,000 square foot range. 58 <br /> 59 <br />Tony Blake: Regarding lot 7, is that the only way the driveway can work? There is no flexibility if we approve the flex 60 <br />plan. 61 <br /> 62 <br />Tom Heffner: The reason we chose that location is that was the gentlest part of the slope. We were trying to find a 63 <br />potential crossing. 64 <br /> 65 <br />Tony Blake: If someone purchased lot 7, they couldn’t negotiate a DOT access? 66 <br /> 67 <br />Tom Heffner: No because that frontage would be in open space that was deeded to the homeowners association. 68 <br /> 69 <br />Peter Hallenbeck: I have one comment. The 35 foot diameter on the cul-de-sacs bothers me from a fire apparatus 70 <br />point of view, fire trucks are 28-33 feet long and there is also a comment from the solid waste people that they were 71 <br />concerned about that diameter for the trucks to pick up the trash, etc. A 40 foot cul-de-sac wouldn’t be much of a 72 <br />change but it would make it much easier for the garbage collection and fire department turning around. 73 <br /> 74 <br />Tom Heffner: We will look at that. Our motivation was to try to reduce the amount of street there as much as we 75 <br />could. 76 <br /> 77 <br />Lisa Stuckey: Have you thought about the noise from I-40? 78 <br /> 79 <br />Tom Heffner: The noise from I-40 at the front of the subdivision is loud. On this property when you get back into the 80 <br />back, the noise is significantly less. It is a risk for a developer but it becomes a tradeoff, for some people it is a no 81 <br />and others look at it as I am a minute from I-40. 82 <br /> 83 <br />Larry Wright: I am going to ask questions and make comments because this Board has not been through this. I 84 <br />would like to commend you for adding up the acres per lot and getting them correct. I went through the numbers 85 <br />where you have 33.7 and I came up with 38% of the roads and buffers and then calculated how much you said the 86 <br />linear feet were of the roads which I think was 1,700 and 50 foot wide and I estimated that the roads and gutters 87 <br />would be 3% of your total and that makes 38%. Are your buffers and woodlands part of your open space? 88 <br /> 89 <br />Tom Heffner: The buffers are not included in the open space. 90 <br /> 91 <br />Larry Wright: On these lots, what is the flood plane? 92 <br /> 93 <br />Tom Heffner: Part of our submittal package was the FEMA flood map for the area and there is no FEMA designated 94 <br />flood plain there. 95 <br /> 96 <br />Glenn Bowles: That doesn’t mean it doesn’t flood, it hasn’t been mapped as a flood plain. 97 <br /> 98 <br />Larry Wright: Referenced Colonial Heights. 99 <br /> 100 <br />Tom Heffner: I think effectively Glenn was right. It is not currently mapped as a flood zone. I agree with you that 101 <br />does not necessarily mean the area will not be inundated by flood waters. All the lots are at a significantly higher 102 <br />elevation so there should not be a problem. 103 <br /> 104 <br />Peter Hallenbeck: Are these two or four foot contours. 105 <br /> 106 <br />Tom Heffner: Those are two. 107 <br /> 108 <br />Larry Wright: This would include the house with the driveway across the street? 109 <br /> 110 <br />48