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12 Draft 1 this point I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to the applicant to provide more detail. Unless you 2 all have questions. 3 Leon Meyers: Questions for Taylor before she finishes? Well, it would be helpful to me to understand exactly, 4 we've got about 12 acres here that relates directly to the Schoolhouse of Wonder use. But if the 5 special-use permit is approved, it applies to the entire property? Is that correct? 6 7 Taylor Perschau: That's correct. The permit would allow for a Camp use on the entirety of the parcel. 8 9 Leon Meyers: Then what is the significance of a part of the parcel? 10 11 Taylor Perschau: So, I understand the designation of those 12 acres for the Schoolhouse use to be consequential to 12 how they calculated the parking. 13 14 Leon Meyers: I didn't mean to get in your presentation. Thank you. Any questions for Taylor? Thank you. 15 16 T.C. Morphis: All right. 17 18 Leon Meyers: Before coming up. Is it correct I understand that everybody who is testifying tonight is a witness 19 you will call? 20 21 T.C. Morphis: Yes, sir. 22 23 Leon Meyers: Okay. 24 25 T.C. Morphis: That's correct. And what we'll do, I've got a PowerPoint presentation.And I'll just go ahead and do 26 my introduction while Pat's getting us queued up. My name is T.C. Morphis. I'm the managing 27 partner for the Brough Law Firm in Chapel Hill. I'm here with my law partner, Lydia Lavelle. We've 28 been working with the Triangle Land Conservancy this evening on this project, and what I'm going 29 to do is I'm going to go through the PowerPoint presentation. At appropriate points, we'll have our 30 witnesses come up. They've all been sworn in. Nearly all the documents in the presentation are 31 also in your packet with the exception of some additional site photos, and then as Taylor forecasts 32 for you, we've addressed the parking issues, and we're definitely going to talk about how 33 Schoolhouse of Wonder fits into the larger Brumley project. Okay, so let's go ahead and get 34 started. If we could start by having Marty Jorgensen and Matt Rutledge come up. And what I'd 35 like to do is, Matt, I'd like you to start by just talking about what Triangle Land Conservancy is 36 generally, you know, the 5-second elevator pitch, and then what Brumley Nature Preserve is and 37 talk about its relationship to the public. Okay, and then, Marty, we'll have you talk about your 38 program in a moment. 39 40 Matt Rutledge: Triangle Land Conservancy is a land trust. We conserve open space in six counties around the 41 Triangle, and that includes Lee, Chatham, Orange, Durham, Wake and Johnston Counties. We've 42 conserved over 25,000 acres since we were founded. And we have eight nature preserves that 43 are free and open to the public. Our Brumley Preserve is one of those. It has 17 miles of trail and 44 is visited by approximately 50,000 people a year. It's a great location for it between Hillsborough, 45 Durham and Chapel Hill, and we acquired the Brumley property in 2010, started speaking with 46 Orange County about a potential use in 2016 and were able to open it to the public in 2017. 47 48 T.C. Morphis: I'm going to come around to this side. So, Matt, quick question because I know this is going to be 49 confusing. I want you to give the size of the total Brumley Nature Preserve and explain the 50 relationship of the different parcels. 12