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<br />did want to make one comment about the question that was asked about how this might affect the rest of the county 965
<br />and just what we have gone through here. This is in the Haw River watershed, we've got stream buffers, we've got 966
<br />roadway connection pieces and we've got a number of things. I would be absolutely flabbergasted if there was 967
<br />another identical piece of property and that is just to say that looking as the staff has talked about into what might be 968
<br />in other places in the county, you really have to be looking at a specific analysis of what's that watershed, whether it's 969
<br />a protected watershed and some other things like that. And that just, expands on the work they have to do. Thank 970
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<br />Edwin Cox: Very briefly on the water, we had a hydrogeologist cross the property back and forth, back and 973
<br />forth with a magnetometer and generate this map that you see before you. The red areas are areas of high magnetic 974
<br />strength that represent iron, that is in formations called diabase dikes and they were looking specifically for diabase 975
<br />because it is highly correlated with a very good source of water, typically 40 gallons per minute or more in the wells 976
<br />that are drilled in the areas of diabase. There has also been a U.S. Geologic Survey of 600 wells in Orange County. 977
<br />It was published around 2000 but correlated the area in Orange County with the amount of well yield and in this 978
<br />particular location in the county, the average well yield was 50 to 75 gallons per minute, so we're pretty confident that 979
<br />we've got water down there and it's in cracked, fractured rock, it's not in sedimentary rock so the probability of 980
<br />interference between wells our geologist tells us is very low. And this is the man telling you about the wastewater 981
<br />system, Kevin Davidson. 982
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<br />Kevin Davidson: My name is Kevin Davidson, I'm a wastewater engineer. I'm here with my colleagues Jasmine 984
<br />and Chris. We are AWT engineers and soils scientists, we're a local company that's been around for quite a while. 985
<br />We routinely help out residents in Orange County. We work with many folks here, are vested in it, been here a long 986
<br />time, matter of fact we're still working with the local fire station. We will be the ones that help out the development for 987
<br />the wastewater system. We have looked at the soils and we will continue to look at that. We also will put together the 988
<br />conceptual plan which is a plan that we have worked with many times throughout North Carolina, the fundamental 989
<br />part of is called the step system to treatment with ultimately drip dispersal, and we've done that throughout North 990
<br />Carolina. We've had very good success with it. During the question and answer time, I'd be glad to discuss any 991
<br />particular components or how we have helped the residents of Orange County and how this system and the 992
<br />experience that we have with this system, be glad to answer any questions that you, that you may have. 993
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<br />John Felton: I guess I could read this, but I'd rather get to the other images, but if you have any questions, 995
<br />let me know on this. Well, I guess the information here, 150 dwelling units, that’s in 3 phases, 1.66 dwelling units per 996
<br />acre, all ownership dwellings, 90 single family dwellings, 60 multi-family flats, 300 maximum bedrooms, 260 to 285 997
<br />estimated residences, internal road construction is to NCDOT standard and three development phases, as I said, 998
<br />essentially equal, so 50, 50 and 50. This is the overall master plan and you see the development is nested at the top 999
<br />of the site along the upper stream buffer with two access points, one Gold Mine and one off the Morrow Mill. And 1000
<br />Morrow Mill, the added left and right turn lanes will be added to those two entries and then internal road construction 1001
<br />to NCDOT standards, so that's a loop road inside. This shows the phase, the proposed phasing for the project. You'll 1002
<br />see Phase 1, P1, that includes the entry drive for Morrow Mill to the P1 phase and then that loop road extends to the 1003
<br />first phase of the waste treatment plant and to the recycling center, they're all in the blue color. In Phase 1 and we 1004
<br />may get to this, but in Phase 1 the community building would be started, in Phase 2, and that's in the yellow color, 1005
<br />you will have additional single-family residences, townhouses and stacked flat buildings. You'll also have the 1006
<br />community gardens, storm water management at that point and by the end of that phase we'll need to do Well No. 2 1007
<br />to comply. Also, in Phase 2 you'll have the completion of the internal loop road out to Gold Mine. And then in Phase 1008
<br />3, if you can see the colors here, Phase 3 is over on the left-hand side, that'll be the final phase of 50 units, they'll be 1009
<br />30 single family houses and 20 multi-family with additional storm water control. 1010
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<br />Scott Radway: Four or five slides here that really reflect elements of what's required as information from the 1012
<br />applicant that fits within the MPD-CD and all of the various layers that are in that. Our requirement is to identify what 1013
<br />uses are in what pods on the site and what uses are not in what pods on the site, and so what we have here is Pod 1014
<br />A1 which has all of the residential development, it has the community buildings, it has the family care facilities, two 1015
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