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<br /> 863 MOTION BY Chris Johnston to extend applicants presentation time to 45 minutes. Seconded by Beth 864 Bronson 865
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<br />IN FAVOR: Statler Gilfillen, Chris Johnston, Liz Kalies, Beth Bronson. 867 OPPOSED: Marilyn Carter, Steve Kaufmann, Lamar Proctor, Charity Kirk, Whitney Watson, Dolores Bailey 868
<br />MOTION FAILS 6 to 4 869
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<br />Edwin Cox: Thank you, my name's Edwin Cox, I'm the president of Hands Four Development Cooperative. 871
<br />That's the applicant. So we're going to have to speed things up a bit, we will refer to Hands Four as H4D through our 872
<br />presentation. The name of our development's Fiddlehead Corner and the application's a group of coordinated 873
<br />proposed amendments that you've heard about to the UDO, the Future Land Use Map and the comprehensive plan, 874
<br />and approval of this set of amendments would allow our organization to create an intentional community for people 875
<br />who share a common interest in the arts. There's a strong emphasis in this community on senior living and aging in 876
<br />place, as we'll talk about later. So to tell you more about how this came about, I'm pleased to introduce Mareah 877
<br />Steketee who is the president of our sister organization, Triangle Traditional Music and Dance Retirement Society. 878
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<br />Mareah Steketee: Thank you for the opportunity to present tonight. We're hoping to share a lot of information in 880
<br />a short period of time, shorter than expected. 2T, H4D and Fiddlehead Corner are three related organizations, 2T is 881
<br />a nonprofit that was established formally in 2014. It is primarily an educational and social organization now. We have 882
<br />offered formal orientations about aging and aging in place, what does it take to end life gracefully for over 300 people 883
<br />to our orientations. Of those 300 people, a hundred are now 2T members, Hand Four Development was developed 884
<br />or established in 2023, it's a cooperative, a business entity, there are 34 members who are contributing financially 885
<br />and of their time. This is all based on volunteer work done with a great team of professionals which you'll hear from 886
<br />tonight. Fiddlehead Corner, as you know, is our hope to be able to live together, age in place, senior living, has a 887
<br />number of different core interests that we hold all in high value. Reasonably priced housing is a bit of a conflict for us 888
<br />because we're hoping, planning to provide a significant number of amenities for people, including a large common 889
<br />house which will become a living room and activity areas, shared spaces, and so it makes it more difficult along with 890
<br />a family care home, two family care homes if the community is built out, to hold costs down. We're very cognizant of 891
<br />costs, we're also an environmentally sensitive group. We dance, we're creative individuals, dance, play music, sing, 892
<br />carry on and have a lot of different commitments to each other. We've done care teams for many, many years, about 893
<br />20 years of care teams and I could talk more about that, but our professionals are here, Scott Radway, John Felton, 894
<br />Mike is in the audience, Kevin Davidson will speak. We've continued to use, as you can read in the very long 895
<br />application, a number of different professionals that have guided us along the way. I'm going to turn this over to Ed 896
<br />again. Thank you. 897
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<br />Edwin Cox: Thank you Maria. As we set the goal for ourselves as an intentional community for living as 899
<br />we aged, we wanted features that would allow us remain in the community as our abilities declined. And from the 900
<br />experience of our parents and others that we knew, we recognized the pitfalls of trying to live in our own home, so we 901
<br />concluded that some sort of communal living was our best solution. We knew about CCRCs and you're familiar with 902
<br />them, as well. They're a good many positive attributes, there's independent living but step up care as your needs 903
<br />increase. Assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. But a lot of activities and social interaction as well. The 904
<br />negative attributes are the complex licensing and financing requirements, steep entry fees, often nonrefundable, high 905
<br />monthly costs, and long waiting lists. I don't know if you've tried to think ahead and get on Carol Woods or Carolina 906
<br />Meadows, you've got to think well ahead. Our approach has been to take the best features of the CCRCs and leave 907
<br />the rest behind, so we wanted a variety of housing that was right sized and had universal design, we wanted 908
<br />clustering to be close so mobility would be easy for all people of all abilities. We wanted activities planned and 909
<br />managed by the creative community of residents, a continuum of care, care teams to look after one another, family 910
<br />care home, inclusive governance, ownership with equity and no special licensing other than the family care homes. 911
<br />So in order to implement this, we had the idea of two complementary characteristics, one is to have a compact 912
<br />community that would facilitate interaction and mobility as I discussed earlier, and it would develop on a small portion 913
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