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<br /> 1 Nathan Robinson: And so, if the operation, I just need to understand the operations. Like who's in the campground if
<br /> 2 we're saying that you can only do it to 10:00 at night, for example. Is it a bunch of kids who are being trained, or is it
<br /> 3 people who are going to UNC game? That's what I'm, that's what I was trying to get some clarity on.
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<br /> 5 Ryan Moffitt: It could be either, but those conditions will apply. Regardless.
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<br /> 7 Leon Meyers: Good. Any other questions?
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<br /> 9 Beth Bronson: Not at the moment, no.
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<br /> 11 Nathan Robinson: No.
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<br /> 13 Leon Meyers: Please continue, Mr. Moffatt
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<br /> 15 Ryan Moffitt: All right. Bobby?
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<br /> 17 Bobby Tucker: Hello again. I'm Bobby Tucker, site engineer from Chatham County. I would like to publicly thank
<br /> 18 county staff first for their support in navigating all the nuances and complexities of the UDO and all the regulations you
<br /> 19 got over here in Orange County. I'm a part of this project really because of my specialization in land-based projects.
<br /> 20 And by land, it's more conservation development, eco-villages, providing consulting and support for farms and
<br /> 21 landowners trying to develop broad-acre permaculture and regenerative ag systems, and overall, really supporting rural
<br /> 22 businesses and landowners towards being economically viable while preserving the rural natural character of the land,
<br /> 23 since that's a strong value of mine. So, part of the approach that I use in sort of all my land design projects follows
<br /> 24 what's called sort of a keyline scale of permanence where we really, it's a decision tree on how we go about deciding
<br /> 25 and designing all the elements in a process relative to their permanence in the landscape. And I'm going to kind of walk
<br /> 26 down through that and how we sort applied it to this project. The first one would be climate, so not just understanding
<br /> 27 the biosphere climate but really the human climate. What are the values of the stakeholders? What's their vision and
<br /> 28 mission for the lands? You know, that's very important. Next is topography. So how are we working with the existing
<br /> 29 Iandform while not having to do mass grading, mass clearing, et cetera. That then dictates sort how water flows, so
<br /> 30 water's the next big one. I'll be protecting and preserving the existing water resources, and part of that, too, what are
<br /> 31 good soils for water infiltration. And in this case, onsite waster water, you know, we're going to design around and
<br /> 32 protect those soils, which in this case there's plenty of them, but not always. Then at that point, then we're often using
<br /> 33 roads to increase the management and the flow path of water across the landscape. Roads are around a long time.
<br /> 34 And then we go to trees, identifying priority specimens. A lot of it depends on, certainly, their health and vigor, but
<br /> 35 these things are going to be around a long time if they're a healthy specimen. Now sometimes, though, that does mean
<br /> 36 that we are taking two steps back, you know, and trying to maybe take down and thin out mature pioneer species so we
<br /> 37 can allow our understory canopy to populate and take over, like we're doing here where you have a lot of matured,
<br /> 38 aging-out pines that could be a liability to any future cabins. So, you know, we quickly work to develop a forestry
<br /> 39 management plan, and I'm currently working with a specialty logger using draft horses to slowly take down strategic sort
<br /> 40 pines initially for the thinning of the cabin area, and that's all being milled on sit, and it will be repurposed into the
<br /> 41 structures. And I haven't even talked about structures yet, so this is where then, once we've sort of identified those
<br /> 42 permanent elements, how are we, you know, positioning structures with respect to those other elements to reduce
<br /> 43 maintenance, provide passive microclimate benefits and clustering them together to reduce overall infrastructure and
<br /> 44 site impact. So just a few things here. You know, it's been called out that we have focused most of the site impact on
<br /> 45 the old homestead, and there is often when you go back in time, older homesteads, there's a lot of wisdom, inherent
<br /> 46 wisdom in where people have positioned homes and roads. They didn't have the amount of energy that we do now to
<br /> 47 make mistakes, so you often want to sort of observe and replicate. Now that's where we've talked the parking, the
<br /> 48 larger community building, and then the roads have followed pretty much the old farm roads except the one loop to cut
<br /> 49 across. We have gone above and beyond, you know, with tree preservation. You know, this project, I mean, if you look
<br /> 50 at the site plan and you look at where we've demarcated as open-space preservation, I mean, that's really kind of an
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