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Approved 6/2/21 392 because of the public road being proposed. That is the only reason why we are seeing it. I don't say that to diminish your 393 desire to look for more information, I just want to be factual. 394 395 Charity Kirk: But we can squelch it by not approving it. 396 397 Michael Harvey: As Molly pointed out, and it's in your abstract, you have three options. You can approve and what the 398 approval does is it allows the applicant to move forward,the approval of the Concept Plan does not guarantee a 399 Preliminary Plot gets approved, itjust allows the applicant to continue. There are a lot of factors that might impact Mr. 400 Mitchell being able to move forward that have nothing to do with Orange County, or Chatham County for that matter. 401 There may be DOT issues or well issues. There are a slew of things that could occur. You could approve this with 402 conditions. Those conditions could range from you want more information from Chatham County on the septic permitting 403 process and their review of the septic locations; you want Mr. Mitchell to provide more detail on water usage and ways that 404 water could be conserved;you can ask for additional traffic impact data prior to the Preliminary Plat so that it will help you 405 make a final decision; or your current option is to say that you are not comfortable approving it because you think that the 406 impacts outweigh the benefits and there is a vote. I certainly think that the Board has flexibility on one level to impose 407 some reasonable conditions to ask for more data. I think some of the answers are going to be answered as Mr. Mitchell 408 continues through his review in Chatham County,assuredly I think the Department of Transportation is going to weigh in 409 on any necessary traffic improvements and I think that there can be a condition or request for more water usage data as 410 well as if there is any preliminary well testing or drilling that is done to figure out what water flow is in this area. Those are 411 your three options and I think it is conceivable for you to discuss some conditions with the applicant and either approve, 412 approve with conditions or you can deny. If you do deny then I would ask that you are explicit in your rationale so that Mr. 413 Mitchell has an understanding of what you might need if he chooses to bring this up again after the statutory time has 414 passed to re-propose the development. 415 416 Melissa Poole: Since there are so many new people and we haven't done one of these in a long time,to help understand 417 that this is preliminary concept, this still comes back before us at a later date in more detail. 418 419 Molly Boyle: Yes,that is correct,this is just the Concept Plan and then the applicant would have to come back and apply 420 for a Preliminary Plat and that is when you will see something that looks more like the plat that you are used to with the 421 metes and bounds and certifications. Also at that point you would have more concrete data and review from NCDOT in 422 terms of the public road, any improvements they might require. You are correct once this is the Concept Plan, assuming 423 approved,then Mr. Mitchell would have to apply for a Preliminary Plat and that would go to the Development Advisory 424 (DAC)again and would then come before you again and then it would go on to the Board of County Commissioners. 425 426 Adam Beeman: I would propose since the water is an issue that the developer take the well off Orange County's property 427 all together and find another location in Chatham. That takes it out of our decision-making. Then all we are doing is 428 deciding on a road. 429 430 Charity Kirk: I would still...Orange County and Chatham is just a line. I would still want to know the well status. 431 432 Adam Beeman: We don't control that,that's the definition;we don't have control of that. 433 434 Charity Kirk: We can still approve or deny the road. 435 436 Adam Beeman: I don't agree with that. But I would like to shift the driveway to the left of the utility pole so it doesn't affect 437 the neighbors and move the well off the Orange County parcel. That is my request from the developer, I don't know if the 438 rest of the Board agrees with me. 439 440 Melissa Poole: I agree with Adam. In the conditions for the Preliminary, I would like to see more information about the 441 shifting that road. 442 443 David Blankfard: Will the Orange County residents be able to comment on the Chatham County proposal for 444 development? 445 446 Molly Boyle: I believe anyone within the notification boundary there, in terms of the neighborhood information meetings. 447 Some of the people in Orange County were captured in that so I would assume so but I'm not 100 percent that if they were