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24 914 of the land and we would then conserve a large percentage of the remaining land and undisturbed forests. This type 915 of development embodies the ideas contained in the flexible development conservation cluster in section 7.12.5B of 916 the UDO. We mentioned these synergistic aspects,the compactness of the developed area and maximizing 917 conserved acreage to our master planning,John Felton who you'll hear from just now, and he started work on the 918 project and he'll tell you about what he came up with. 919 920 John Felton: Thank you, good evening, my name's John Felton,architect and senior designer at Cline. 921 We're a landscape and planning and architectural firm. So in our web sessions the group gave us great opportunities 922 and a lot of feedback. What they wanted was really in line with either a TND development or a compact 923 neighborhood. Compact neighborhoods are really just shrinking the built, creating sort of shared spaces, celebrating 924 common spaces, preserving natural topography and space and de-emphasizing the car. We looked at the TND 925 model which basically is an alley loaded street front for this group and how they wanted to live, the idea of a pocket 926 neighborhood basically and Ross Chapin,you're seeing some examples of his work. He practices in the Portland/ 927 Seattle area,fantastic work and you can see from the images that the car is minimized,the car is still on the street 928 but it's on the back side of the living space. These small cottages and small homes really,the front porch is to a 929 natural environment with rain gardens and decomposed gravel walkways so there's less impervious surfaces, and it's 930 a place that celebrates what they want to celebrate which is each other and so they didn't need a big yard, a big lot, 931 they don't want that. They want to live closer together in a place that allows them to celebrate each other and their 932 life and then also multiple or different living opportunities so that they can age in place and not be forced to,when 933 they're too old to maintain that house,to have to leave and leave their friends. So, it's a purpose built idea and what's 934 great about it is that when you're driving along the roads you'll never see it, you'll have an entry,you'll have two 935 entries and then the development is compactly located inside the property. It's a great group and really, I think we've 936 come up with a wonderful way to put housing on this property. Thank you. 937 938 Scott Radway: Good evening, Scott Radway, planning consultant. I have lived here in Orange County since 939 1989 and have followed many of their projects through the process for Orange County and also for Hillsborough and 940 one of the projects I worked on was the Waterstone project and figuring out how to blend the sort of edge of urban 941 and the edge of I would call rural,which it had been. First I want to talk about the environmental framework for the 942 project to get it towards the design and what defined the design and how we got together, streams and regulated 943 buffers, slope, drainage analysis,water supply, soil suitability and many of the documents the County has and others, 944 it talks about the ability to use public water, public wells, and private water systems and to use collective wastewater 945 treatment areas in areas where the soils and other aspects are appropriate and we believe this is one. Within the 946 packet,you have a number of reviews by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality,which is another 947 layer above the County and those pieces of information are there. This is the property; I think it is the image that you 948 see as clear as the one I see up on the wall. 949 950 Beth Bronson: It is. 951 952 Scott Radway: Okay.What we have here is the property that's outlined and four photographs of the types of 953 streams that run through the site. The streams corridors, and the streams are identified by the county stamp so 954 we've been working with that information as a core piece of our activity. These two images present almost the same 955 information. On the left is the piece of property we're talking about and is adjoining properties. Immediately to the 956 east is the flood plain, the stream corridors are identified but we've identified on here are the stream corridors and the 957 buffers that are required for them. Some cases they're 85 feet and some cases they're 60 feet, you don't see it on 958 the screen so well but there's an additional 25 foot drip zone or critical root zone buffer area outside of this specific 959 distance buffer. The property is really a pretty gentle piece of property, 95 percent of the property is less than a 15 960 percent slope which you can see on here. A25 percent slope,which make up less than 1 percent of the site, and 961 they are, as all know in Orange County, they are part of the stream corridor alignments most of the place, and then 962 there's 15 to 25 percent slopes. What you see in the middle, it looks like a whitewashed area basically between 0 963 and 15 percent slopes and that's 96 percent of the property and it's a pretty gentle piece of property. Of course what 964 we were looking at was also geological formations for water supply and then for wastewater there is the soils. And I