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Approved & T23 933 934 Cy Stober: We have a statute that we have acknowledged in your packet, the school buildings would be required to have 935 waste disposal and water, to get a certificate of compliance . They have a state law that requires an allocation of water 936 and sewer service for schools but the county would not be directly involved in the permitting or regulation . We would not 937 issue a CNC for the buildings , and we could not sign off on the zoning approval for the building construction until we 938 were sure that the water disposal could be served by those buildings . 939 940 Charity Kirk : We work with the Town of Hillsborough . . . 941 942 Beth Bronson : I would want to address the Town of Hillsborough to at least understand them better. 943 944 Cy Stober: We are not a regulatory body when it comes to water or sewer for the Town of Hillsborough . We are when it 945 comes to well and septic . 946 947 Steve Kaufmann : So this evening I heard a lot of concern from the neighbors about congestion , lights, well water for 948 themselves , but also a lot of enthusiasm from people who want to play tennis and softball , this is great and I ' m hearing a 949 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 950 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 951 phrase in tennis a number of times , "this is a win -win situation " so I like those situations so go ahead . 952 953 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 954 what is on the table today that has been proposed by our team . So we could build several dozen homes and it would be 955 X number of homes that would consume far more well water than the proposal that is on the table tonight and we could 956 actually do zero for traffic improvements . The proposals on the table today are to build the turn lanes at US70 and 957 Lawrence Rd . or write a check for $400 , 000 so that NCDOT can build the turn lanes which are needed today and they 958 have probably been needed for a long time . We ' ve already committed on the record tonight to do safety improvements 959 subject to NCDOT approval at NC10 and Lawrence Rd . We need to get back to what the community needs . . . . . put that 960 together with Collins Field and it is not a question of if but of when those baseball fields will no longer be available for 961 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 962 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 963 you tonight with no public hearings no traffic improvements , far more well water being consumed , versus these 964 improvements that are significant improvements both in terms of recreation and traffic flow . That' s how I look at it . You 965 have to weigh which proposal is in the best interests of the people of Orange County . 966 967 Whitney Watson : I want to , follow up on a couple of water questions , I noted in one of the reports that there was a 968 concern about water supply for fire safety, sprinklers , standpipes , hydrants . Could you talk about how that would be met? 969 If you had to use wells ? 970 971 Jim Parker: You use wells you have onsite , a storage tank much like a ground tank . It would be a storage tank that would 972 hold fire suppressant water. It would be filled by well , it would be serviced by a pump that would provide the pressure 973 and the flow capacity to flood the sprinkler system in the school and that would be the fire suppressant for the high 974 school and the same thing for the lower school . 975 976 Whitney Watson : So would there be two separate tanks ? 977 978 Jim Parker: Yes , they are on your plan . 979 980 Whitney Watson : So if the developer should pursue sewer and water from the Town of Hillsborough would there be any 981 possibility of installing hydrants along that route ? 982 983 Jim Parker: That line would be extended along Jefferson from the southwest corner of the subdivision . It will be a 12 inch 984 line and yes there could be fire hydrants along that line . It has the capacity and the volume to do that. 985 986 Whitney Watson : Cy, if there are not hydrants currently, in those neighborhoods , can that be a condition that we could 987 attach to this , the installation of hydrants . . .