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934 <br />Overlapping conversations 935 <br /> 936 <br />Cy Stober: We have a statute that we have acknowledged in your packet, the school buildings would be required to have 937 <br />waste disposal and water, to get a certificate of compliance. They have a state law that requires an allocation of water 938 <br />and sewer service for schools but the county would not be directly involved in the permitting or regulation. We would not 939 <br />issue a CNC for the buildings, and we could not sign off on the zoning approval for the building construction until we 940 <br />were sure that the water disposal could be served by those buildings. 941 <br /> 942 <br />Charity Kirk: We work with the Town of Hillsborough… 943 <br /> 944 <br />Beth Bronson: I would want to address the Town of Hillsborough to at least understand them better. 945 <br /> 946 <br />Cy Stober: We are not a regulatory body when it comes to water or sewer for the Town of Hillsborough. We are when it 947 <br />comes to well and septic. 948 <br /> 949 <br />Steve Kaufmann: So this evening I heard a lot of concern from the neighbors about congestion, lights, well water for 950 <br />themselves, but also a lot of enthusiasm from people who want to play tennis and softball, this is great and I’m hearing a 951 <br />lot of “this is going to be a win-win situation” but it didn’t feel like a win-win situation tonight. It felt like us against them all 952 <br />night. How can we make this a win-win situation is my question to you? The reason I am asking is that I have heard that 953 <br />phrase in tennis a number of times, “this is a win-win situation” so I like those situations so go ahead. 954 <br /> 955 <br />Patrick Byker: I think you have to look at what can be done on this property as a right without this board reviewing it and 956 <br />what is on the table today that has been proposed by our team. So we could build several dozen homes and it would be 957 <br />X number of homes that would consume far more well water than the proposal that is on the table tonight and we could 958 <br />actually do zero for traffic improvements. The proposals on the table today are to build the turn lanes at US70 and 959 <br />Lawrence Rd. or write a check for $400,000 so that NCDOT can build the turn lanes which are needed today and they 960 <br />have probably been needed for a long time. We’ve already committed on the record tonight to do safety improvements 961 <br />subject to NCDOT approval at NC10 and Lawrence Rd. We need to get back to what the community needs…..put that 962 <br />together with Collins Field and it is not a question of if but of when those baseball fields will no longer be available for 963 <br />children to play baseball. Where are they going to go? If not here, where? I am not aware of any other options. Is there a 964 <br />win-win out there? I’m afraid there probably is not. You have to stack up what can be built on the 90 acres that is before 965 <br />you tonight with no public hearings no traffic improvements, far more well water being consumed, versus these 966 <br />improvements that are significant improvements both in terms of recreation and traffic flow. That’s how I look at it. You 967 <br />have to weigh which proposal is in the best interests of the people of Orange County. 968 <br /> 969 <br />Whitney Watson: I want to follow up on a couple of water questions, I noted in one of the reports that there was a 970 <br />concern about water supply for fire safety, sprinklers, standpipes, hydrants. Could you talk about how that would be met? 971 <br />If you had to use wells? 972 <br /> 973 <br />Jim Parker: You use wells you have onsite, a storage tank much like a ground tank. It would be a storage tank that would 974 <br />hold fire suppressant water. It would be filled by well, it would be serviced by a pump that would provide the pressure 975 <br />and the flow capacity to flood the sprinkler system in the school and that would be the fire suppressant for the high 976 <br />school and the same thing for the lower school. 977 <br /> 978 <br />Whitney Watson: So would there be two separate tanks? 979 <br /> 980 <br />Jim Parker: Yes, they are on your plan. 981 <br /> 982 <br />Whitney Watson: So if the developer should pursue sewer and water from the Town of Hillsborough would there be any 983 <br />possibility of installing hydrants along that route? 984 <br /> 985 <br />Jim Parker: That line would be extended along Jefferson from the southwest corner of the subdivision. It will be a 12 inch 986 <br />line and yes there could be fire hydrants along that line. It has the capacity and the volume to do that. 987 <br /> 988 <br />22