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APPROVED WITH AMENDMENT 2.7.24 549 field has been in development for a while now, and I'd hate for them to have to hold on to something for 10 550 plus years or whatever the case may be. Like, is there a plan to attach a timeline stipulation to it? 551 552 Cy Stober: So as I said, negotiations are still ongoing. What I can do is defer to David Stancil, the 553 Director of DEAPR or to Craig Nishimoto regarding that point, and that could be a consideration that you all 554 make in your motion on this matter. 555 556 Whitney Watson: And if I could go back, one more question. The condition we'll be voting on says that this 557 is anticipated to generate significant noise and operate during evening hours in the Rural Buffer. Is that 558 accurate? 559 560 Craig Nishimoto: The only time I foresee operating in the evening hours would be in the event of a storm or 561 the direct aftermath of a storm. We start early, we end early. I imagine at some point wanting to have some 562 crew working and available on call on the weekend at least, but we're pretty silent after 3:00. Now there may 563 be one crew that gets back late, but it's not making a hurricane of noise. It's parking a truck, maybe dumping a 564 truck, and leaving with personal vehicle. 565 566 Chris Johnston: If I could continue just, while we have the representative here, Mr. Stancil, regards to the 567 plans moving forward, I guess I come back to just the discomfort I have on timelines and stipulating things that 568 could happen far out in advance. In terms of the negotiations and that sort of thing, if we were to approve 569 something like this, I'd like to have an idea or understanding of where that's headed in terms of requirements 570 for the applicant. 571 572 David Stancil: Our current Capital Investment Plan envisions that we will begin master planning for this 573 long-awaited soccer center for southern Orange County probably in the next year or so. We have a number of 574 sketches that we've done to date. We've owned the property since 2005 and originally it was envisioned to be 575 constructed as a joint project with the Town of Chapel Hill as primarily a soccer facility, but also some other 576 recreational uses in the middle of the last decade, but there were redirection of resources so ultimately, it's 577 been pushed back in the CIP, but we do currently have an adopted CIP that says we will begin engineering 578 drawings, constructions drawings in 2027, construction underway in 2028. 1 can tell you that I have been in 579 contact with the Town of Chapel Hill recently as well to make sure that this is still a priority project that's still in 580 their Capital Investment Plan and it is. I can also tell you that we have been in contact with a large soccer 581 organization in the last several months that is interested in jump-starting a few fields out there. That's a 582 conversation that's ongoing. I don't know exactly what that would mean right now in terms of how many fields, 583 how much parking would be needed and where the entry would be, but so I guess this is a long-winded way of 584 saying that I believe the intention is that this project is something that's three to four years out. I certainly hope 585 that it doesn't get pushed back another five to ten years because that's already happened once. Every year the 586 Board of Commissioners looks at the Capital Investment Plan every spring, and there are changes made every 587 year, so certainly, it could happen. 588 589 Beth Bronson: Just to clarify, those soccer fields, theoretical soccer fields, are they adjacent County 590 parcels? 591 592 David Stancil: Yeah. I don't know if we have a map yet. If you look at the property to the north, and the 593 property to the south of this site is the old landfill, and that's owned by Orange County, but it's not really usable 594 for anything other than low-impact recreation, possibly someday. But we're talking here about the property in 595 this map it would be the property that you see labeled as Orange County to the east, or the right, and then the 596 property to the north. So, we own 79 acres in total. We bought it back in 2005 and the idea at that time —this 597 was shortly after the 2001 bond referendum —was we have a soccer center, a soccer complex in Efland. We