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stream buffer. Where the red line crosses the creek, the terrain is more difficult. This is shown by the compressed topographical lines. Our current access road, which is visible in the earliest available aerial imagery dating back 73 years,1 is shown as a 60-foot wide access easement in a 1979 Plat (Book 30, page 135) and is described in the 1978 Deed of Easement (Record Book 311 Page 84). Only modest improvements would be needed to this road to accommodate our near-term needs. Essentially we would need to widen the gravel in at least a few spots to allow for vehicles traveling in opposite directions to pass each other. If required to do so, we could also widen the entire length to the twenty-foot width as indicated in our site plans, but this is likely more than we presently need. Cost One: Financial The first problem of having to build an entirely new access road is that a road building project is not a trivial matter for a small business such as ours. A road building project would eat up our financial resources, likely leaving us with a new road to an under-developed parcel. We are counting on being able to use our current access road insofar as immediate costs for improving it would be relatively modest and future costs of additional improvements would be manageable insofar as costs would be spread over time, increasing proportionally with the growth of our company and to our corresponding ability to pay for the as-needed improvements. Cost Two: Environmental More impartially, building a new access road also has environmental costs. The new road would require the clearing and grading of heavily wooded areas. We would be clear cutting trees that might turn out to be important natural buffers to the old landfill, as well as to the Town of Chapel 1 An aerial photo from 1950 is shown on page 150 of the 2018 Feasibility Report. 2 134