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Approved 12/4/13 <br />5 <br /> 216 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: Paul, are focusing on whether the soil they found was suitable for conventional or low pressure 217 <br />pump, what type of system. 218 <br /> 219 <br />Paul Guthrie: I was looking for information to draw from my own experience as to what the likely impact would be. 220 <br />There are a number of ways to do this. 221 <br /> 222 <br />Jennifer Leaf: As the preliminary plat stage of this project the applicant will apply to Environmental Health for a 223 <br />comprehensive review of soil suitability. At this point they have not been involved in finding or evaluating soil types 224 <br />with respect to the location of septic systems. After the concept plan is approved, that is when Environmental 225 <br />Health will be contacted and the official perk sites will go out and be located. 226 <br /> 227 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: This will be part of the preliminary site plan you are supplying is to have more details about the 228 <br />soil test for septic, etc. 229 <br /> 230 <br />Mike Neal: Sure. We have had a soil scientist come out and look at the soil and there is a shading on the drawing 231 <br />that shows what areas perk on the lot. We have these stipple boxes, we knew those were the size for a 232 <br />conventional system. We knew the soils were acceptable for a conventional system so we ensured that each lot 233 <br />had an area for conventional system and a repair area. When the lots are sold, we know they can put in a 234 <br />conventional system and that will work and the homeowner may choose another system. 235 <br /> 236 <br />Tony Blake: How large is this acreage? 237 <br /> 238 <br />Jennifer Leaf: 104 acres. 239 <br /> 240 <br />Tony Blake: I have a recombination map that shows almost 200 acres. Is it the acreage that constitutes a major 241 <br />subdivision as opposed to a minor subdivision? 242 <br /> 243 <br />Jennifer Leaf: The number of lots. One new lot up to five is a minor and then six and above is a major. 244 <br /> 245 <br />Tony Blake: I am still confused about this huge map that shows a recombination of four tracts and it is 200 acreage 246 <br />not 100. 247 <br /> 248 <br />Michael Harvey: All we can tell you is this is a 104 acre tract by the current tax record. 249 <br /> 250 <br />Jennifer Leaf: This does have a label of 104 acres on it, the recombination plat, so the plat that was recorded in 251 <br />2005, they shifted some boundary lines so that is how that lot ended up being 104 acres. 252 <br /> 253 <br />Tony Blake: Some lots are in the rural buffer and in the Chapel Hill school system and some are in the Orange 254 <br />County School system and it appears as if they have already accounted for the impact fees and I wanted to 255 <br />comment about that. 256 <br /> 257 <br />Michael Harvey: That is on page 36. There will be six lots potentially served by Orange County and 14 lots served 258 <br />by Chapel Hill Carrboro. 259 <br /> 260 <br />Tony Blake: Since tracts two through four are owned by the same development company that ultimately these 261 <br />tracts will be developed as well? 262 <br /> 263 <br />Jennifer Leaf: Those tracts are currently developed. 264 <br /> 265 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: It seems like it meets the requirements and staff is happy with it. Streams are getting good 266 <br />protection and the soils are good enough for conventional. Is there anyone else from the public to comment on 267 <br />this? 268 <br /> 269