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10 221 assembly this summer. It has not been taken to the floor for a vote nor has it been taken up by 222 the senate. 223 224 Beth Bronson: That's for municipality parking. Is that correct? 225 226 Other Speaker: It's an effort to eliminate parking minimums in primarily municipalities. 227 228 Beth Bronson: And so what I'm thinking about is for subdivisions specifically, reducing parking minimums, or a lot 229 of the plans that I've seen in the past 4 years have grossly underestimated or under-reported the 230 average daily car use. So,while you may have those standards set roads, or Class A roads, you 231 still have two rows of cars on either side. I guess I just want to confirm that you guys are a part of 232 that discussion, like the development advisory committee. And so that is something that you guys 233 consider when you see that and what that might mean and, specifically,while there isn't 234 necessarily a huge level of wild and urban interface as a result of a lot of the land being managed 235 around here, if those requirements were to go away or,thinking about the new use of ADUs in the 236 rural areas so you may have a house that's accessible, but you may have an ADU that is 237 inaccessible. And does that get reviewed during the permitting process for emergency services. 238 239 Kirby Saunders: Is that a question? I just wanted to make sure. 240 241 Beth Bronson: Yeah. 242 243 Kirby Saunders: What I heard you asking is-are we a part of the development advisory committee? In the 244 process,we absolutely are. We're members of the table, and we look at those accessory dwelling 245 units or something that,we would look at closely and make sure that we have access and working 246 with our planning partners as well, and we're limited by the enforcement of the fire code, 247 unfortunately,so we cannot create new codes and ordinances from our perspective, but we can 248 enforce the North Carolina Fire Prevention Code,and we do have representation on those code 249 committees that help inform future codes of the North Carolina Fire Prevention Code. 250 251 Beth Bronson: Thank you. 252 253 Kirby Saunders: In Orange County, I would say just to close out, it is very proactive,we adopted Appendix D which 254 gives us the authority right now to enforce the turnaround radius. Without adoption of that,we 255 would have no ability to enforce that turnaround radius, and so we did that a number of years ago. 256 The new fire code is supposed to automatically incorporate Appendix D in the general fire code. 257 So, right now, in the State of North Carolina, it's a smorgasbord of what the turnaround radius is, 258 which I can understand from DOT's perspective, they need consistency about roads they're going 259 to pick up to maintain. It's not consistent across county to county right now in North Carolina. We 260 lean towards a safer approach to ensure that we have access of egress, ingress, routes. That's 261 not true for every county in North Carolina. 262 263 Lamar Proctor: Charity? 264 265 Charity Kirk: I have a question about your fuel reduction activities and the priority of those activities. Personal 266 experience,we have at least 5 acres of pine forest right off Bethel Hickory Grove Church Road 267 which looks like it's right near that area where you've had death, and we talked to the fire service 268 about reducing the pine straw because we don't manage it, and it was going to be difficult and a 269 lot of work on our part to get like all the neighbors on board and signed off, and there was no 270 support beyond that assessment. Like do you care about small properties like that, and how do 271 you get people like me on board? I've not been, no one's outreached to me, and I have a trailer 272 park on one side and a neighborhood on the other side. So, is that a priority since we're not too 273 concerned about that. Like people like me that have those unmanaged areas that are full of 274 pine straw, how do you handle us, and what's your thought about us? 275