Agenda 06-03-2025; 5-b - Application for Zoning Atlas Amendment – 9900 NC 57, Rougemont, Little River Township

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119 551 552 Charity Kirk: What page. 553 554 Ashley Moncado: Page 145. 555 556 Charity Kirk: 145. Thank you.You have a lot of language in your, purpose and intent of leaving a sustainable 557 footprint, and eco-friendly practices,and I'm a little concerned about the non-native invasive plants 558 that you seem so intent on doing,which is not sustainable really. There's nice language and then 559 there's reality. So, I feel like I need to check a few things. Where are your photovoltaics that you 560 say you're going to have? Where are your photovoltaic systems? Are they on all the buildings? 561 562 Justin Chandler: We're going to incorporate that with some of the drive aisle lighting. It's going to be the security 563 lighting system that will be on during the wintertime after, let's say 5:30,depending on the time of 564 year and time change. They will be attached there, and act as access lights for lockers during 565 those times. Again,they're low lumen outputs. You can barely see them from 200 yards away. 1 566 mean if you're on the other side of the property, it would be virtually impossible to see it. It's not 567 like a flashlight. Like a 500, 600, 700, 800 lumen flashlight that you can see. Those will be 568 attached to the buildings themselves and in the office as well. 569 570 Charity Kirk: The photovoltaics are just associated with the lighting? 571 572 Justin Chandler: Correct. 573 574 Charity Kirk: Okay. And the eco-friendly materials you're going to design the units with,what are those 575 materials? 576 577 Justin Chandler: In regard to that, obviously this is a protected watershed in that whole area there. A lot of that 578 verbiage speaks to the non-permeable stone. However, using 57 stone and some of the studies 579 that have come out with it, that talks about the permeability being,for the land to be able to soak it 580 back up. Although in Orange County it is not considered it, it helps mitigate some of the runoff. 581 Again, I just want to go back and harp on the fact that it was a racetrack. It still can be a 582 racetrack. It's still there. The infrastructure's there to do it. It has oils, gases, loud noises, giant 583 lights on them that run until 10:00. It's permitted to run until 10:00 or 11:00 at night. We don't 584 want any of that. 585 586 Charity Kirk: You're comparing yourself as more sustainable than a racetrack? 587 588 Justin Chandler: Significantly,yes. 589 590 Charity Kirk: Okay, but you use a lot of sustainable language here to impress, I think, and I'm wondering where 591 that is. 592 593 Justin Chandler: When we do the erosion control measures, as you can see in the northwest side, all of the roll 594 outs, netting, are biodegradable. They're not plastic. They're not nylon. They will degrade over 595 time. We plan on using straw and grass coverings from the area to go back there to prevent more 596 non-invasive species coming in there and overtaking it. During this whole process, a lot of the 597 runoff with nylon, now seems to be,that's what gets in the rivers systems, and obviously the 598 netting stuff is a huge concern, not only in our river systems, but our oceans in general,which by 599 way of, go down to the coast of North Carolina. None of this will be a factor with the materials that 600 I'm using for erosion control. So that more of what I'm pointing towards when I'm saying 601 sustainable and eco-friendly practices. 602 603 Charity Kirk: So, you're sentence, the storage units are designed with eco-friendly materials, you've pointed at 604 gravel.And you've pointed at the water runoff, but I have yet to hear storage units are designed 605 with eco-friendly materials. That is your language. What does that mean?