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120 <br /> stream buffer. Where the red line crosses the creek, the terrain is more difficult. This is shown <br /> by the compressed topographical lines. <br /> All4 <br /> �. n 411 E <br /> { <br /> t <br /> Property <br /> Our current access road, which is visible in the earliest available aerial imagery dating back 73 <br /> years,' is shown as a 60-foot wide access easement in a 1979 Plat (Book 30, page 135) and is <br /> described in the 1978 Deed of Easement (Record Book 311 Page 84). Only modest <br /> improvements would be needed to this road to accommodate our near-term needs. Essentially <br /> we would need to widen the gravel in at least a few spots to allow for vehicles traveling in <br /> opposite directions to pass each other. If required to do so, we could also widen the entire <br /> length to the twenty-foot width as indicated in our site plans, but this is likely more than we <br /> presently need. <br /> Cost One: Financial <br /> The first problem of having to build an entirely new access road is that a road building project is <br /> not a trivial matter for a small business such as ours. A road building project would eat up our <br /> financial resources, likely leaving us with a new road to an under-developed parcel. We are <br /> counting on being able to use our current access road insofar as immediate costs for improving <br /> it would be relatively modest and future costs of additional improvements would be manageable <br /> insofar as costs would be spread over time, increasing proportionally with the growth of our <br /> company and to our corresponding ability to pay for the as-needed improvements. <br /> Cost Two: Environmental <br /> More impartially, building a new access road also has environmental costs. The new road would <br /> require the clearing and grading of heavily wooded areas. We would be clear cutting trees that <br /> might turn out to be important natural buffers to the old landfill, as well as to the Town of Chapel <br /> ' An aerial photo from 1950 is shown on page 150 of the 2018 Feasibility Report. <br /> 2 <br />