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of I‑40, Highway 86 south, and I-85. The Woods Edge Mobile Home Park has provided an essential type of housing in 1 Orange County over the last 40 years. It has provided owner subsidized affordable housing that has benefited 2 thousands of families in the community for decades. It remains a well-cared for, fully occupied mobile home community 3 with a constant waiting list. The Woods Edge community has provided ideal housing for those who work in our 4 community but can't afford a single-family home. Our proposed modification of the Woods Edge Special Use Permit 5 does not change the character, operation, or affordability of the Woods Edge Mobile Home Park. We hope that that will 6 remain a vital part of Orange County's more affordable housing stock for years to come. The proposed modification 7 only changes two elements of the previous special use permits. It does away with the requirement for unitary 8 ownership, and it redistributes 25 acres of open space to areas that are more in line with the current Unified 9 Development Ordinance. All 25 acres remain as open space. The purpose of the two proposed modifications are as 10 follows. To allow for the future development of the vacant and underutilized land south of the Woods Edge Mobile Park 11 in uses consistent with the Hillsborough and Central Orange County Coordinated Land Use Plan for areas within the 12 town's urban services boundary and multiple other land use plans, all of which we'll show you tonight. No. 2, to provide 13 an ideal location for moderately priced housing, affordable housing, and neighborhood businesses which are all badly 14 needed in Southeastern Orange County. No. 3, to provide a more thoughtful distribution of the open space on the site. 15 A distribution of open site space which will consider environmentally sensitive areas, like steep slopes, streams, 16 hardwood forests, and in accordance with Orange County Unified Development Ordinance that now requires such 17 areas to be looked at first and foremost when allocating open space. No. 4, to allow for better open space buffers 18 between the Woods Edge Mobile Home property and the homes to the south. A buffer that is both more continuous 19 and more permanent. No. 5, and the last one finally, to permanently prohibit access to East Scarlett Mountain Road 20 from potential development from the north by dedicating the open space along the southern border of the property into 21 a permanent conservation easement. Now, I'll turn it over to our experts to kind of validate what I've just gone over as 22 those five purposes. Thank you very much. 23 24 Leon Meyers: Before you leave, let's see if the Board has any questions for you. Board members? 25 26 Nathan Robinson: Can you define for me as a non-lawyer what unitary ownership means? 27 28 Mr. Chupp: What unitary ownership, as non-lawyer, to me means is that the property remains under the ownership 29 of one individual or one corporation. 30 31 Nathan Robinson: As an attorney, who do I ask that question to? 32 33 Ben Kuhn: I don't know that I've ever seen that term, honestly, in a condition like that before, so I'm at a loss to 34 say unitary ownership except that, if there's a group of one or a group of three, by the time they got the special use 35 permit that that would be the unitary ownership group that held it at that time I'm guessing it would be. But then it says, 36 and lots shall not be sold to individuals, so it's a really confusing condition if you read Condition No. 16 the way it's 37 written. It says unitary ownership, and lots shall not be sold to individuals. So, it's confusing to me what it means. 38 39 Leon Meyers: Mr. Kuhn, I believe I saw a reference to some research on county commissioner minutes in the 40 package. Are you familiar with that research? 41 42 Ben Kuhn: I'm not. 43 44 Nathan Robinson: I didn't see that. 45 46 Leon Meyers: Is that my imagination, or did somebody do some research on county commissioner minutes? 47 48 Cy Stober: We did do the research. I'm uncertain, conferring with Ms. Perschau, that it's in the packet, but I have 49 the minutes right here if we need to enter them into the record. 50 19