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contiguous properties. And so, without further adieu, and without me getting into the weeds on any one of those, I'll 1 probably come back and sum up a little bit at the end, but I'd like to start off with Mr. Chupp's testimony. And 2 Mr. Chupp, if you would please come up. We did pass up a binder of documents. A black binder which you should 3 have that's titled with the case on the front and it contains five tabs, which include the resumes of our experts, who you 4 will hear in a moment, and it includes our PowerPoint presentation with Mr. Chupp and others will take you through. It 5 includes the market study by Jarvis Martin that talks about the enhancing or promoting the value. We also have a 6 special used permit narrative that is behind Tab No. 4 and a listing of the findings of fact behind Tab No. 5. 7 8 Leon Meyers: Excuse me before you leave the podium, let me ask, what is in this package that was not in the agenda 9 package, if anything? 10 11 Ben Kuhn: The resumes. I think the PowerPoint presentation. The market study. 12 13 Leon Meyers: I remember seeing the resumes and the market study, so it's just the PowerPoint that's in the binder 14 that we didn't have in the package? 15 16 Ben Kuhn: Yeah, I think that's right. 17 18 Leon Meyers: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Kuhn before he leaves the podium? Thank you, sir. All right, 19 Mr. Chupp? 20 21 Eric Chupp: Good evening. Thank you for being here Chair Meyers and the rest of the Board. I really appreciate 22 your time and listening to our presentation this evening. My name is Eric Chupp and I'm here on behalf of the applicant 23 Capkov Ventures Inc. I would like to thank this evening the Orange County Planning Department, in particular Cy 24 Stober and Taylor Perschau for their help and guidance in preparing the application and their excellent staff report. I'm 25 short, so I need to adjust this here. Capkov Ventures, the applicant, is a small development company based in Chapel 26 Hill, North Carolina. The company is family owned and managed by Scott Kovens and his youngest son Joe, both of 27 who are here with us this evening. Capkov has been building exclusively in Orange County since 1989, and I have 28 personally been working with Capkov Ventures for 33 years out of the 35 years since Capkov was founded. I've had 29 the opportunity and the pleasure to help build some of the finest communities in Orange County. I live in a community 30 developed in Carrboro called the Cedars at Bolin Forest where I've raised five children. My youngest son David walks 31 to Carrboro Elementary every day, and my youngest daughter Isabella goes to Smith Middle School where she plays 32 third base on a softball team and looks forward to attending Chapel Hill High next year. Scott Kovens lives in our 33 Franklin Grove Community in Chapel Hill next door to his son Joe, who lives at the entrance of the community on an 34 infill lot that we developed as well. The point being, we are all part of the community where we work and we are proud 35 of the contributions we have made to providing homes and families for those in Orange County. On the screen you 36 have a list of some of the communities that we have built. They're all in Orange County. As I said, this is where we've 37 been for the last 30 some years and its only place that we've ever developed since I've been associated with the 38 organization. The application before you today is a request to modify the 1985 Special Use Permit for the Woods Edge 39 Mobile Home Park and the 1991 modification of that same special use permit. The special use permit was approved 40 39 years ago. It was a planned development mobile home park and was modified 33 years ago to expand that mobile 41 home park and shift the open space southward from the western portion of the site to the southeastern corner of the 42 site. And so, this just shows how that shifted from the western portion of the site to the boot looking shape where it was 43 kind of placed in the middle of the 50 acres on the southern portion of the site. The Woods Edge property is located 44 just south of Waterstone Drive immediately adjacent to the UNC Hospital complex. It is bounded by Waterstone Drive 45 to the north, I-40 to the west, Highway 86 to the east, and Scarlett Mountain Drive to the south. The property is 46 surrounded by new community oriented public/private developments, including Durham Tech, a major UNC Hospital 47 campus, the new Waterstone Fire and Emergency Services station, and the Research Triangle Logistics Park, and the 48 Waterstone community as well. The site is also within walking distance of Orange County Stanback Middle School and 49 New Hope Elementary. The site is in a unique location, sandwiched between Orange County's biggest transit corridors 50 18