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Approved 5.7.25 933 and a rainwater garden and more sustainable practices than what I'm seeing as actually 934 implemented.What can we do? 935 936 Cy Stober: Just a reminder, and Ashley covered this in her initial slides that conditional zoning is, any 937 conditions that are imposed upon the property and any approval are those that are mutually 938 agreed upon by the applicant and the County ultimately. This is a negotiation, and between 939 Mr. Chandler and the Planning Board on behalf of the County and eventually the Commissioners. 940 This is an active discussion and dialog, and any concerns that the Board may have would be 941 appropriate to bring up as a point of negotiation and discussion. I think the other thing is if there is 942 a condition that any Board member feels is fundamental to the nature of the project, if it is a 943 reasonable land use consideration it could be grounds for a recommendation of denial, or a 944 recommendation to continue the matter. 945 946 Chris Johnston: I'm not here to make excuses or anything for Mr. Chandler. I just want to make sure that 1 947 understand,you're experience across the street where your family has a lot that did this self- 948 storage thing and you attempted to follow the statute and attempted to do the non-invasive 949 grasses or whatever the case may be, and that didn't work out and eventually you had to fall back 950 to something else. Is that how I understood your take on this previously and your hesitation? 951 952 Justin Chandler: The grass is not an issue. 953 954 Chris Johnston: Not an issue. Okay. 955 956 Justin Chandler: Yeah, that's not an issue at all. Some of the plantings, again,fall within the schedule of the UDO 957 and what has been provided.And we've made those picks based on that. 958 959 Chris Johnston: And again,that comes from your experience in the area next door. 960 961 Justin Chandler: Correct. 962 963 Chris Johnston: I'm just making sure I understand,from your point of view where this is coming from, because on 964 this Board,the non-invasive species thing is very important, and I want to make sure that we're 965 answering that and go from there. I'm going to defer because I started talking over your spot, and 966 I'm so sorry. 967 968 Charity Kirk: It's okay. So, I mean, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, in their letter talking 969 about bio retention structures and rain gardens,what do you feel about, I mean you have pervious 970 gravel, but what is your vision of the landscaping? Can you clarify that again? It sounds like you 971 want really easy landscaping that you don't have to take care of that just you set it and forget it 972 and it kind of spreads a little bit on its own. 973 974 Justin Chandler: Again,the facility across the road has been in for 13 years now. We have not had any issue with 975 non-invasive spreading. The entire site is visible from Mile Branch Road and Highway 57. It's 976 been compared to what was there before. We maintain a high standard of cleanliness. You can 977 drive through the parking lot. There's not a bit of trash. Once a week we go out there and clean 978 up the trash, anything that's left behind from any renters. We also have done the adopt a highway 979 program and clean up that area from the Person County line all the way down to the big 980 Speedway,which during racing season has quite bit of trash, and just from commercial traffic 981 comes out of the back of trucks off 18 wheelers,what have you, wherever it comes from. We go 982 out there and we clean it up to, obviously to be a pillar for the community here of sustainable 983 practices. This is something that we live around the area, and we're from the community, and we 984 plan on keeping it nice, and I don't want to put anything out there just because it's easy per se. 1 985 know that that may be how it came across. That's not it at all. I just don't want it to die. 986 987 Meg Millard: What are the trees that you have planted at the other storage unit? Across the street.