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<br />Cy Stober: Well, because the other option would've been residential conditional district, but that doesn't 1117
<br />include the nonresidential features, because there's several outparcels that have primary uses that are completely 1118
<br />nonresidential. And when you are involving more than one primary housing type - so they have detached single 1119
<br />family homes, attached single family homes, which are also known as townhomes, and multi-family structures - the 1120
<br />Master Plan Development, just definition or description, lends itself exactly to that type of community, or that type of 1121
<br />conditional district. 1122
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<br />Marilyn Carter: So just a quick follow-up then to confirm, if the community didn't have those mixed types of 1124
<br />housing opportunities, then it would be more appropriate to consider an agricultural residential cluster subdivision. Is 1125
<br />that correct? 1126
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<br />Cy Stober: If it was entirely single-family residential homes with no nonresidential components or maybe 1128
<br />an incidental outparcel for a pool or something like that, then yes, this would be an R-CD application. 1129
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<br />Marilyn Carter: Understand. So, a follow-on question has to do with family care facilities, and as someone 1131
<br />who is a primary caregiver for an elder, I'm very interested in your proposal in terms of all the aspects and the 1132
<br />comprehensiveness of it. But family care facilities can take a number of different forms under statute, and so I'm 1133
<br />curious about whether the family care facilities are targeted to be family care homes, which would be, I imagine, in 1134
<br />single family or multi-family up to six residents, or whether you're envisioning something larger under the flexibility 1135
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<br />Edwin Cox: No, we'd be going for six residents in a facility and up to two facilities. We'll build one and if 1138
<br />we need more capacity, the second. And it would be for assistance with activities of daily living and possibly for 1139
<br />cognitive problems. 1140
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<br />Marilyn Carter: Thank you. 1142
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<br />Cy Stober: And if I may, Ms. Carter, that was the substance of the slides and the primary motive for staff 1144
<br />to recommend the definition update because 160D-907 limits the number of inhabitants to a family care facility to six 1145
<br />individuals. So, we would regulate that use to be limited to no more than six per structure. 1146
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<br />Marilyn Carter: Thank you for that clarification. Question about the septic system, and it may be that 1148
<br />Mr. Davidson might be able to, or the team, might be able to answer, but it has to do with the nature of the primary 1149
<br />treatment. And some of us have heard about issues in other neighborhoods that are tied into the MBR approach for 1150
<br />handling the solid waste treatment. So, what type of system are you proposing in that up-front stage of treatment? 1151
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<br />Kevin Davidson: Okay. Appreciate the question there. So, what we're proposing for the whole development, 1153
<br />the first piece of primary treatment is called a step tank, and it's very similar to a septic tank that many of us have that 1154
<br />are on septic systems at our house, a traditional septic tank. You collect the waste from the building, and in a step 1155
<br />tank - step is S-T-E-P, and it stands for Septic Tank Effluent Pump - and in that tank, we're going to collect those 1156
<br />solids, that waste, that comes from, whether it's a house, a row of houses, a community building. We're going to 1157
<br />collect it in that first initial tank. That tank serves as a traditional septic tank in the sense that we're settling the solids, 1158
<br />we're letting any scum layer float to the top and - I apologize, this is my day-to-day thing, so when we deal with solids 1159
<br />and scum, that's normal septic conversations for us poop people - so we deal with that. And so, we settle those 1160
<br />solids, we let that scum layer rise. In the outlet side of the tank - and there was a slide, and I believe it's in your 1161
<br />packet there; it shows a schematic of a STEP tank - we have a pump vault unit, and inside that pump vault unit is a 1162
<br />high-head turbine pump very similar to a well style pump. That filter in that pump vault protects that pump from any 1163
<br />solids, and we're trying to draw through the clear zone of this tank. So, if you picture those solids are down low, the 1164
<br />scum layer is high, and essentially as clean as I can be is that center of that tank. We're drawing water through that 1165
<br />clear zone of that tank through that filter and into that pump. Now, that pump, as I said, it's a high-head pump. We're 1166
<br />able to send that filtered effluent - it's not wastewater at this point; it's filtered effluent - we're able to send that quite 1167
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