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Approved 7.10.24 of the land and we would then conserve a large percentage of the remaining land and undisturbed forests. This type 914 of development embodies the ideas contained in the flexible development conservation cluster in section 7.12.5B of 915 the UDO. We mentioned these synergistic aspects, the compactness of the developed area and maximizing 916 conserved acreage to our master planning, John Felton who you'll hear from just now, and he started work on the 917 project and he'll tell you about what he came up with. 918 919 John Felton: Thank you, good evening, my name's John Felton, architect and senior designer at Cline. 920 We're a landscape and planning and architectural firm. So in our web sessions the group gave us great opportunities 921 and a lot of feedback. What they wanted was really in line with either a TND development or a compact 922 neighborhood. Compact neighborhoods are really just shrinking the built, creating sort of shared spaces, celebrating 923 common spaces, preserving natural topography and space and de-emphasizing the car. We looked at the TND 924 model which basically is an alley loaded street front for this group and how they wanted to live, the idea of a pocket 925 neighborhood basically and Ross Chapin, you're seeing some examples of his work. He practices in the Portland/ 926 Seattle area, fantastic work and you can see from the images that the car is minimized, the car is still on the street 927 but it's on the back side of the living space. These small cottages and small homes really, the front porch is to a 928 natural environment with rain gardens and decomposed gravel walkways so there's less impervious surfaces, and it's 929 a place that celebrates what they want to celebrate which is each other and so they didn't need a big yard, a big lot, 930 they don't want that. They want to live closer together in a place that allows them to celebrate each other and their 931 life and then also multiple or different living opportunities so that they can age in place and not be forced to, when 932 they're too old to maintain that house, to have to leave and leave their friends. So, it's a purpose built idea and what's 933 great about it is that when you're driving along the roads you'll never see it, you'll have an entry, you'll have two 934 entries and then the development is compactly located inside the property. It's a great group and really, I think we've 935 come up with a wonderful way to put housing on this property. Thank you. 936 937 Scott Radway: Good evening, Scott Radway, planning consultant. I have lived here in Orange County since 938 1989 and have followed many of their projects through the process for Orange County and also for Hillsborough and 939 one of the projects I worked on was the Waterstone project and figuring out how to blend the sort of edge of urban 940 and the edge of I would call rural, which it had been. First I want to talk about the environmental framework for the 941 project to get it towards the design and what defined the design and how we got together, streams and regulated 942 buffers, slope, drainage analysis, water supply, soil suitability and many of the documents the County has and others, 943 it talks about the ability to use public water, public wells, and private water systems and to use collective wastewater 944 treatment areas in areas where the soils and other aspects are appropriate and we believe this is one. Within the 945 packet, you have a number of reviews by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, which is another 946 layer above the County and those pieces of information are there. This is the property; I think it is the image that you 947 see as clear as the one I see up on the wall. 948 949 Beth Bronson: It is. 950 951 Scott Radway: Okay. What we have here is the property that's outlined and four photographs of the types of 952 streams that run through the site. The streams corridors, and the streams are identified by the county stamp so 953 we've been working with that information as a core piece of our activity. These two images present almost the same 954 information. On the left is the piece of property we're talking about and is adjoining properties. Immediately to the 955 east is the flood plain, the stream corridors are identified but we've identified on here are the stream corridors and the 956 buffers that are required for them. Some cases they're 85 feet and some cases they're 60 feet, you don't see it on 957 the screen so well but there's an additional 25 foot drip zone or critical root zone buffer area outside of this specific 958 distance buffer. The property is really a pretty gentle piece of property, 95 percent of the property is less than a 15 959 percent slope which you can see on here. A25 percent slope, which make up less than 1 percent of the site, and 960 they are, as all know in Orange County, they are part of the stream corridor alignments most of the place, and then 961 there's 15 to 25 percent slopes. What you see in the middle, it looks like a whitewashed area basically between 0 962 and 15 percent slopes and that's 96 percent of the property and it's a pretty gentle piece of property. Of course what 963 we were looking at was also geological formations for water supply and then for wastewater there is the soils. And I 964