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251 <br /> Approved 8.7.24 <br /> 103 submit your comments to the board of county commissioners, and you can also go to the <br /> 104 board of county commissioners meeting and have your public comments heard there <br /> 105 when this application gets to them. With nothing else, we're going to give the applicant <br /> 106 his 5 minutes to update us on what he had changed and then we're going to move on to <br /> 107 questioning and get onto the public comment. <br /> 108 <br /> 109 Edwin Cox: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good evening, everyone. I'm Edwin Cox. I'm the president <br /> 110 of Hands Four. We've heard some comments at the June 5th meeting to the effect that it <br /> 111 was not clear that we were fully committed to be a community of elderly residents and that <br /> 112 we needed, or it would be advisable for us to provide, some sort of very credible indication <br /> 113 that that is the case, and we took that to heart. We went back and became more fully <br /> 114 informed about what it means to be a community of persons 55 and older. That is <br /> 115 enshrined in the law and a very specific terminology. It brings very specific criteria for <br /> 116 being such a community. I won't go into those now for the lack of time, but we studied <br /> 117 that very carefully and became more informed, and we took it to our community, our <br /> 118 cooperative, and as a cooperative we have now decided that we will declare ourselves to <br /> 119 be a community for persons 55 and older. I can explain more about that in response to <br /> 120 questions later in the meeting, but that's what we have to say at the moment. <br /> 121 <br /> 122 AGENDA ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES <br /> 123 <br /> 124 Adam Beeman: Thank you very much. I also had to approve the minutes from last month. Do I have a <br /> 125 motion to approve last month's minutes? <br /> 126 <br /> 127 MOTION BY Chris Johnston to approve the meeting minutes. Seconded by Lamar Proctor <br /> 128 <br /> 129 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY <br /> 130 <br /> 131 Adam Beeman: All right. Beth? You're up if you have any questions for the applicant because you didn't <br /> 132 get a chance to finish. <br /> 133 <br /> 134 Beth Bronson: Thank you. The last time I was up here, I asked about the utilities and emergency <br /> 135 services, I believe that was where we left off. I guess that my question for the applicant <br /> 136 would be what kind of integration or communication have you had with the county's <br /> 137 emergency services or the volunteer fire departments, first responders, as to how you <br /> 138 would handle an emergency in the rural area for the group medical centers? <br /> 139 <br /> 140 Scott Radway: Thank you for the question. I don't have a graphic up here yet or available to show that <br /> 141 as deep in all the other material that's in there, but for a quick answer, let me do the <br /> 142 emergency responder person issue first. Orange County requires that residential <br /> 143 developments that have more than 100 dwelling units have two ways in and out to the <br /> 144 property and that's what we have on the plan, a primary entrance on Morrow Mill Road <br /> 145 and what we believe will be an emergency vehicle service entrance only from Goldmine <br /> 146 Loop. We have worked with them at a number of meetings and gone through the various <br /> 147 pieces of fire protection that are needed, police protection, vehicles, how they get in and <br /> 148 how they get out, how they work within the internal road system, and then connected that <br /> 149 also with what happens for fire service, which was a portion of the question, and for fire <br /> 150 service, there's different layers for the proposed three multi-story, three-story buildings. <br /> 151 Those all have to be sprinklered. So, part of the system that we will be putting in place, <br /> 152 the wells and the public water system regulated by the state, will be lines of sufficient <br />