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D R A F T 225 Molly Boyle: The road is to be built to a public standard and the County doesn’t maintain roads. It will be the North 226 Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) there wouldn’t be any cost of maintenance or upkeep to Orange County. 227 228 Charity Kirk: So a suggestion that you review the house across the street for how this road may affect them and plan 229 accordingly. As far as water goes, what is the aquifer status in this area? Do we know? Or do we just have rumors that 230 wells are running dry? 231 232 Warren Mitchell: I live in a house on a couple of acres with a well and I put the well in a convenient location so a lot of time 233 with a single family, where you can put a well is limited versus a larger piece of property. It depends, if you tap an aquifer. 234 On the concept plan, there is a well in Chatham County and I’m trying to get them closer to where the streams are without 235 being in the stream itself but nearby there is a stream. I’ve also considered moving them down, I’m trying to get close to 236 where an aquifer might be. My well yield at home is not great, it’s enough for the house but I think that is what happens, 237 you drill your well and you get enough for a house and then in dry periods the yield might be less, the groundwater level 238 can drop in summer. 239 240 Charity Kirk: So what water conservation measures are you including in the project since that is a concern in the area? 241 242 Warren Mitchell: I think the appliances today use a lot less. 243 244 Charity Kirk: So you don’t have don’t have any special plans for water conservation, you’re just going with current 245 standards? 246 247 Warren Mitchell: Why don’t I present this to you when I come back with the first plat, the preliminary plat. 248 249 Charity Kirk: I would be interested in water conservation measures and at one of the community meetings someone 250 suggested disallowing swimming pools, private swimming pools. Have you thought about that any more? 251 252 Warren Mitchell: I have and I think it’s a great idea and I’m going to enforce that and make it part of the HOA. 253 254 Carrie Fletcher: Why the decision to have community wells as opposed to homeowners getting their own wells? Is it 255 acreage? 256 257 Warren Mitchell: I think that it’s more efficient and I think a lot of people that do not live on wells and are not familiar with 258 them are more comfortable having a public utility or entity manage the water. I think it’s more efficient than drilling 93 wells 259 on the property and I don’t know why individual wells would be considered better. 260 261 Carrie Fletcher: What happens if these wells don’t come through? 262 263 Warren Mitchell: We will keep looking; we could drill several locations and we’re going to have a storage tank; not one up 264 in the air, it will be on the ground. We might have to add an extra storage tank. 265 266 Alexandra Allman: Can you speak to the income for the housing that you trying to attract? 267 268 Warren Mitchell: We don’t have that information at this time. 269 270 Alexandra Allman: Is that something that you can provide at the next meeting? 271 272 Warren Mitchell: I don’t believe that we are required to do that, not something the County can ask. We’re really just not at 273 that point. 274 275 Molly Boyle: To clarify, generally speaking, the County, and my supervisor and I talked about this today because that 276 question has come up, but the County is not making subdivision determinations based on the proposed value of the 277 homes going in. That’s not something that we ask for as part of the application process in terms of the subdivision. 278 279 Alexandra Allman: You were saying that these homes are around $500,000 that I read somewhere? 280 11