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D R A F T <br />495 <br />Patricia Roberts: If you have a lot of pervious ground, then you are not going to need as much as you think. You’ve 496 <br />got the natural way for water to be a absorbed into the ground and you’re just trying to take over probably what you 497 <br />have made impervious. The tradeoff, I would rather have more trees. 498 <br />499 <br />Tim Smith: With the one inch, they also call it water quality also. They call it the first flush. That first hard one inch 500 <br />of rain hits all the pavement areas where all the nasty stuff is and that’s what runs off first and that’s what we’re 501 <br />required to treat first for nutrients and water quality. 502 <br />503 <br />Kim Piracci: Is the impervious, pervious areas taken into consideration when you decide how much? 504 <br />505 <br />Tim Smith: the project as a whole, we’re very low on total amount of impervious. The allowed maximum for this 506 <br />property is 36 percent and we’re only proposing about 17 percent. 507 <br />508 <br />Kim Piracci: What would happen if you made 15 units instead of 20; would you then still have the cut down as many 509 <br />trees? 510 <br />511 <br />Tim Smith: Potentially not, but that’s all a balance of everything else we’ve talked about. 512 <br />513 <br />Patrick Mallett: The way this typically works for a single-family residential subdivision is it’s a bit of a calculated right 514 <br />sizing in terms of runoff and stormwater. Looking back at the layout. You want to put your open space and the 515 <br />devices in the right place and then routing stormwater that would go through ditches into pipes. A big part of their 516 <br />design and a analysis is to locate them in the right place, right size them, and assume that they built it and designed 517 <br />it and located it appropriate for the initial clearing, the initial impervious to carry the freight for the public roads, and 518 <br />then assume a theoretical clearing and an impervious amount for each of the lots. Part of the analysis is to factor in 519 <br />the impervious water quality, water quantity and then the rate of runoff. 520 <br />521 <br />Jim Ray: My name is Jim Ray. I’m Occoneechee Golf Club. We were the ones going to get the water. I just want 522 <br />to ask Tim how much more water are we actually going to get then we’re getting now? If you can get the state to 523 <br />build a culvert the first one west of where you all going to build, that would solve a whole lot of our problem. 524 <br />525 <br />Tim Smith: It’s hard to say. The intent is always in following the guidelines that we have the follow. To keep it 526 <br />basically as it was before the development was there. 527 <br />528 <br />Jim Ray: That’s too much.529 <br />530 <br />Tim Smith: The numbers that we are required to adhere to are no more post development than predevelopment. 531 <br />532 <br />Jim Ray: I’m not against the development, but I would like to have as much help as we can to stop the water. 533 <br />The left turn lane, how much more pavement is going on our side of the road and where is the ditch line going to be 534 <br />then? 535 <br />536 <br />Tim Smith: We don’t have the final design. We’re doing a proposed symmetrical widening. On your side right now,537 <br />the pavement will get about three feet wider than where it is right now. If it looks like it’s going to be a problem on 538 <br />your side of the road, we can shift the widening to be more on the project side with less impact on your side so we’re 539 <br />not having to push ditches and that sort of thing.540 <br />541 <br />Jim Ray: We don’t need to lose anymore property.542 <br />543 <br />Tim Smith: Everything we do has to be within DOT’s right of way. It’s not going to be on your property. Hearing your 544 <br />concern, we want to keep everything we can away from you. 545 <br />546 <br />Zelda Lockhart: Good evening, I would like to read a letter that I’d like to have entered into the public record. Ms. 547 <br />Lockhart read her letter to the public.548 <br />549 <br />14