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<br /> 1270 Scott Radway: Okay, I think I know what you mean. The piece it's in, I think you're speaking about the
<br /> 1271 environmental piece that sticks in the tiny corner of the property.
<br /> 1272
<br /> 1273 Lamar Proctor: Correct.
<br /> 1274
<br /> 1275 Scott Radway: So,this was the east side,flowing from west to east, the northern piece, and its various stream
<br /> 1276 channels in here flowing, again,west to east getting into this higher-level stream,which also then has a flood plain,
<br /> 1277 so it's a FEMA flood plain and regulated. Where we overlap is like 8,000 square feet or so out of 90 acres in an area
<br /> 1278 that's protected by your stream buffer ordinance and the state's regulations also. So, one of the review comments
<br /> 1279 from the state was it's there, make sure it's dealt with, and that's sort of a recommendation both to us and to you as
<br /> 1280 the County. What we haven't shown on here, is we have ended our buffers at our property line because we don't
<br /> 1281 want to be presumptive and draw a buffer on somebody else's property line. It may not be a buffer on their property
<br /> 1282 line based on their use in the future, and so we've tried not to get fingerprints on something and 5 years from now it
<br /> 1283 gets interpreted incorrectly.
<br /> 1284
<br /> 1285 Lamar Proctor: I guess my question,generally, is it seems like the site plan is consistent with preserving the
<br /> 1286 rural character to the degree that you can. I was just wondering if you want to comment a little more about
<br /> 1287 preservation, and green spaces, and protection of the stream buffers on this property and how that fits into the overall
<br /> 1288 design.
<br /> 1289
<br /> 1290 Scott Radway: Well, as you heard Ed talk about,who's a principal, and the members of H4D and 2T,the sort
<br /> 1291 of marching orders was,this looks like a piece of property that's gentle to build on, it does have environmental
<br /> 1292 pieces,they want a lot of trails and want a lot of other things for active adults, not necessarily baseball fields. But, in
<br /> 1293 looking at the property, then the challenge to John Felton and to 2T and working on this together was how do we, in
<br /> 1294 essence, be invisible to the public, if you will, on the roads. What we have is one roadway entrance that'll come from
<br /> 1295 Morrow Mill Road and come into the site and except as you go past it and probably have a 60-foot-wide opening in
<br /> 1296 what's now treed land;you will notice that it's anything other than we have to provide turning lanes for NCDOT's
<br /> 1297 evaluation. The entrance character on Gold Mine will even be a lesser impact because it can be really simply, it's
<br /> 1298 going to be a 20-foot-wide paved surface because that's what emergency services needs. But, it goes through a
<br /> 1299 forest on a pass where we're trying to use the existing logging road that was in there from many, many years ago,
<br /> 1300 and so we're trying to have it as little at the edge of the property that somebody would see. If you like speed limit
<br /> 1301 kinds of considerations,or if you like baseball and know how far a ball can go at a hundred miles an hour, and how
<br /> 1302 many feet in how many seconds. People driving by those entrances will have about 3 seconds to notice that they're
<br /> 1303 there. And, that's sort of a sales pitch, but it's also real.
<br /> 1304
<br /> 1305 Lamar Proctor: And you talked about you were going to incorporate solar and minimize any light pollution. I
<br /> 1306 was wondering if you could just comment on those things.
<br /> 1307
<br /> 1308 Scott Radway: I can. Solar,the layout, I'm not going to go back to the layout in detail, but the layout with what
<br /> 1309 you can see on here and, obviously,we have 24,25 acres in this area that's going to be disturbed, and some of it will
<br /> 1310 be tree removal, and that's part of what your ordinance addresses for the number of plantings and trees we have to
<br /> 1311 put back in. But what you see in here in what are the single-family or the townhouse rooftops, there's also a
<br /> 1312 detached garage. So,you have a 1,200 to 1,500 single-floor, two-bedroom house with a detached garage space, or
<br /> 1313 two-parking spaces. The roofs and the roofs of both of those, a separate garage and a separate house,can be fit
<br /> 1314 with a roof line that will go whatever direction it needs to go to capture the sun as the sun rotates through the site.
<br /> 1315 So, a part of the ability to work with solar and part of the ability to do some of the other pieces is because the building
<br /> 1316 model is going to be one in which the flexibility to change the shape of a garage, or not necessarily the shape of it,
<br /> 1317 but the roof orientation of the garage, is possible for every piece of property in here so each piece of property can get
<br /> 1318 an orientation that does that, and that's the level of detail that the H4D and the 2T people charged John with figuring
<br /> 1319 out.
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