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Approved 5.7.25 823 Charity Kirk: What page. 824 825 Ashley Moncado: Page 145. 826 827 Charity Kirk: 145. Thank you.You have a lot of language in your, purpose and intent of leaving a sustainable 828 footprint, and eco-friendly practices, and I'm a little concerned about the non-native invasive plants 829 that you seem so intent on doing,which is not sustainable really. There's nice language and then 830 there's reality. So, I feel like I need to check a few things. Where are your photovoltaics that you 831 say you're going to have? Where are your photovoltaic systems? Are they on all the buildings? 832 833 Justin Chandler: We're going to incorporate that with some of the drive aisle lighting. It's going to be the security 834 lighting system that will be on during the wintertime after, let's say 5:30, depending on the time of 835 year and time change. They will be attached there, and act as access lights for lockers during 836 those times. Again, they're low lumen outputs. You can barely see them from 200 yards away. 1 837 mean if you're on the other side of the property, it would be virtually impossible to see it. It's not 838 like a flashlight. Like a 500, 600, 700, 800 lumen flashlight that you can see. Those will be 839 attached to the buildings themselves and in the office as well. 840 841 Charity Kirk: The photovoltaics are just associated with the lighting? 842 843 Justin Chandler: Correct. 844 845 Charity Kirk: Okay. And the eco-friendly materials you're going to design the units with,what are those 846 materials? 847 848 Justin Chandler: In regard to that, obviously this is a protected watershed in that whole area there. A lot of that 849 verbiage speaks to the non-permeable stone. However, using 57 stone and some of the studies 850 that have come out with it,that talks about the permeability being,for the land to be able to soak it 851 back up. Although in Orange County it is not considered it, it helps mitigate some of the runoff. 852 Again, I just want to go back and harp on the fact that it was a racetrack. It still can be a 853 racetrack. It's still there. The infrastructure's there to do it. It has oils, gases, loud noises, giant 854 lights on them that run until 10:00. It's permitted to run until 10:00 or 11:00 at night. We don't 855 want any of that. 856 857 Charity Kirk: You're comparing yourself as more sustainable than a racetrack? 858 859 Justin Chandler: Significantly, yes. 860 861 Charity Kirk: Okay, but you use a lot of sustainable language here to impress, I think, and I'm wondering where 862 that is. 863 864 Justin Chandler: When we do the erosion control measures, as you can see in the northwest side, all of the roll 865 outs, netting, are biodegradable. They're not plastic. They're not nylon. They will degrade over 866 time. We plan on using straw and grass coverings from the area to go back there to prevent more 867 non-invasive species coming in there and overtaking it. During this whole process, a lot of the 868 runoff with nylon, now seems to be, that's what gets in the rivers systems, and obviously the 869 netting stuff is a huge concern, not only in our river systems, but our oceans in general, which by 870 way of, go down to the coast of North Carolina. None of this will be a factor with the materials that 871 I'm using for erosion control. So that more of what I'm pointing towards when I'm saying 872 sustainable and eco-friendly practices. 873 874 Charity Kirk: So,you're sentence,the storage units are designed with eco-friendly materials, you've pointed at 875 gravel.And you've pointed at the water runoff, but I have yet to hear storage units are designed 876 with eco-friendly materials. That is your language. What does that mean? 877