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Approved 5.7.25 1313 recommends the Board receive the preliminary plan application and recommend its approval of 1314 the preliminary plat as submitted. 1315 1316 Dan Jewell: Thank you,Ashley. Good evening, Chair Proctor and members of the Planning Board. I'm Dan 1317 Jewell, a landscape architect with Thomas and Hutton. We are the land planners, landscape 1318 architects on this project. I don't have a presentation. I'd simply like to remind you all that you're 1319 looking tonight at the exact same project that you recommended consistency of 2 years ago. The 1320 difference is today that the process required additional refinement of road widths and storm water 1321 management which we will be doing things of that nature. We've been dealing with the state 1322 DEQ. We've been dealing with the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers. We've had a lot of meetings 1323 with NCDOT to get the roadways worked out,with the Fire Marshall to make sure that we meet all 1324 the requirements for gradient and turn around and things of that nature. Again, as Ashley said, 1325 40 percent open space we think is rather exemplary. I think this will be a good benchmark for 1326 similar projects in the future to try and hit in terms of doing a conservation subdivision. Other than 1327 that here to answer any questions you might have and looking forward to a positive 1328 recommendation to the commissioners. Thank you. 1329 1330 Lamar Proctor: Thank you, and one preliminary questions for, I guess for Cy or Perdita is,this review of the 1331 preliminary plat, we talked about taking that out of the review process. Right? 1332 1333 Cy Stober: We've actually been directed by the commissioners to make this an administrative process. 1334 1335 Lamar Proctor: Okay.And then will there be another review of a final plat that will come before us on the same 1336 project. 1337 1338 Cy Stober: Very likely unless the LIDO is amended to make that an administrative approval. 1339 1340 Ashley Moncado: Staff review the final plat. 1341 1342 Cy Stober: Unless there's any dedications associated with the final plat. Thank you,Ashley. 1343 1344 Lamar Proctor: Okay. Just to give everyone the background about previous discussions. 1345 1346 Ashley Moncado: Just to clarify too,when the preliminary plat goes to the BOCC,they do have resolution of 1347 approval. Things are in there that's what we use for the final plat review. It references 1348 landscaping, impervious surface. 1349 1350 Lamar Proctor: All right. Meg any discussion or questions from the applicant? 1351 1352 Meg Millard: I did. I was curious about the phasing in plan. How the road would sort of expand. It wasn't very 1353 clear. 1354 1355 Dan Jewell: Could you explain that in a little more detail? 1356 1357 Meg Millard: Well, it seemed like that there were some conditions within NCDOT about, I guess you were going 1358 to build part of it first and then another part and then so would it eventually be an NCDOT road? 1359 1360 Dan Jewell: Yes, I understand now. Thank you. Yes, the roads will all be designed to NCDOT standards with 1361 the intent of once there are enough people living on these roads that they would be submitted to 1362 NCDOT for roadway maintenance. The detail I think that you're responding to is there's some 1363 fairly new guidance to NCDOT about turn arounds at the end of each phase. In other words we 1364 don't anticipate building all of the roads at one time, and if we stop, say the main road, a third of 1365 the way in, half way in, DOT will require us to build a temporary turnaround of some kind so that 1366 cars and emergency vehicles had turn around. Does that help answer the question? 1367