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5 space and combine with other septic systems. It’s not a package plan, it’s not a community system, but there’s a 215 deeded area out there that’s made this fenced in and I basically own the deed but the HOA has the open space. 216 217 Lisa Stuckey: The tank? 218 219 Patrick Mallett: No. You would buy your house. I would buy lot 1 and I would build my home and the builder would 220 be responsible for installing the tank and then gets hooked up to the tank system and then it either goes gravity flow 221 or it gets pumped through a trench that has lines. To meet a state standard they have to be labeled a certain way, 222 the trench has to be constructed a certain way and then it goes out to the drain field. But specifically, physically, 223 legally lot1/lot 1A it goes out to that drain field. 224 225 Kim Piracci: So 1A is a piece of the drain field? Everybody has a piece of it? 226 227 Patrick Mallett: Yeah. So if I bought lot 2 then I would have lot 2 and then 2A would be my area so there’s direct 228 accountability. The probably with a community package systems is that it’s kind of an all or nothing proposition. If 229 the system fails everybody goes down. With this, it’s the same as if it was on the lot and one of he benefits is… So 230 I’ve got a 5 acre lot and I know where my drain field is, pretty much but I’ve got 5 kids that like to play football… I 231 would rather that area be in an open space where it’s there’s no ambiguity to be fenced in and maintained. 232 233 Patrick Mallett showed schematics. 234 235 Kim Piracci: But no trees. Is that sort of the idea as well? 236 237 Patrick Mallett: Yeah. You don’t want to have infiltration. There are systems that you can work around trees but 238 ideally you wouldn’t want a tree. 239 240 Patrick Mallett continued presentation. 241 242 Lisa Stuckey: Can you explain that first one? 243 244 Patrick Mallett: So there’s no incentive for you to do a flexible design on a minor subdivision. Technically, you can 245 dedicate open space today but there’s no reason for.. You’re not going to get any benefit out of it from a regulatory 246 standpoint. With this provision you can go above 5 lots but you’re going to have to provide open space and other 247 measures to best take care of… It wouldn’t be against the increase because, quite honestly, I would say your 248 average minor subdivision probably leaves 50% of the theoretical allowed density on the table because they don’t 249 want to make that leap into a major subdivision. 250 251 Craig Benedict: If I can summarize, the incentive is you have a staff approval for more lots down there so people 252 would be very encouraged to have that staff approval and do a minor subdivision. They’re not gaining any more lots 253 as we say. In the past you could only do 5 by staff approval, now you can go up to 12. 254 255 Patrick Mallett: Yeah. The reason we picked 12 is because once you go above 12 you have to have a public street. 256 And so another example is, in the current UDO, if you do a private street and you go above 4 lots you have to go 257 through what I call a Chinese menu of requirements that allow you to do a private street and there are things like 258 double the minimum lot size, double the setbacks, increase your stream buffers by 125% and things that you can’t 259 really do that and have a flexible development that encourages open space. 260 261 Kim Piracci: So developers won’t have to come to you and get special permission, up to 12 lots? 262 263 Patrick Mallett: They would go through the minor subdivision process. You have to get a Concept Plan approved by 264 the Development Advisory Committee, the Preliminary Plan reviewed and approved by the Development Advisory 265 Committee, and then prepare a plat. 266 267 Craig Benedict: But you won’t have to go in front of the commissioners. 268 9