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Approved 5.7.25 878 Justin Chandler: It's more the construction process. I was speaking to the construction process as a whole. 1 879 wasn't trying to inherently say that like steel was inherently eco-friendly. 880 881 Charity Kirk: Okay. 882 883 Statler Gilfillen: You're using basically metal building construction, right? 884 885 Justin Chandler: Correct. 886 887 Statler Gilfillen: Standard framing. 888 889 Justin Chandler: Correct. 890 891 Beth Bronson: And there's no solar plans for the lighting system? 892 893 Justin Chandler: It's basic solar lighting that you can get from any type of supply store. 894 895 Charity Kirk: And your green building materials? That would just be the gravel. 896 897 Justin Chandler: That's part of the erosion control process as well. That's part of the construction process, and 898 that's, again,what I was pointing to. 899 900 Charity Kirk: Okay. That's landscaping. I would consider that more landscaping than building. 901 902 Justin Chandler: Yes, ma'am. 903 904 Charity Kirk: And how are you a benchmark for sustainable and environmentally conscious storage facilities? 905 Just the use of pervious pavement. 906 907 Justin Chandler: Generally speaking,when you see a lot of these storage facilities go up, they're vertical storage. 908 They're multiple level. They include a significant amount more infrastructure compared to these 909 single level storage units. They use weight-rated I-beams, all sorts of fire suppression systems 910 that have harmful chemicals in them. Some obviously have various systems in it that are not 911 great. Basically,what I'm getting at is there is so much more because of multi-level development 912 with these storage units. There's a lot more material. There's a lot more waste. All of these kits 913 that I buy, they have no waste. When you go out there on the job site afterwards, you can load up 914 the trash from the construction in a small 10 by 20, or 8 1/2 by 20 dumpster, for this entire facility. 915 If you go to somewhere like off of Guess Road, Public Storage just built their unit. You go look at 916 their dumpsters. They're hauling off five, six, seven, eight loads of trash to go into the landfill. 917 What I'm doing right now is retaining almost 70 acres of land that I will own in perpetuity with this 918 and intend to not develop it and keep it completely as it is to promote wildlife. Obviously have low 919 lighting to not disturb any type of nocturnal animals. I'm not doing anything that would have 920 significant run off type inferences with this, and I guess that's what I'm pointing to. 921 922 Charity Kirk: And how are you going to serve as an inspiration for other businesses to adopt sustainable 923 practices? 924 925 Chris Johnston: Just to confirm, I want to make sure that we're not necessarily digging in at anyone's writing style 926 or anything along those lines. I want to make sure we're focused. 927 928 Charity Kirk: I'm wanting to sort of go towards the, you know,there's non-native plants and invasive plants 929 even, and there is a hesitation to do much more, to amend the soil,to do sort of sustainability stuff 930 to be an inspiration of pollinators and rainwater and all of that.And how can we, as a Planning 931 Board say that we can add to this? That we want certain practices that are being stated as they're 932 going to happen. Can we make sure that the stormwater stays on site and there's retention ponds