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Approved 7.10.24 Scott Radway: Okay, I think I know what you mean. The piece it's in, I think you're speaking about the 1270 environmental piece that sticks in the tiny corner of the property. 1271 1272 Lamar Proctor: Correct. 1273 1274 Scott Radway: So, this was the east side, flowing from west to east, the northern piece, and its various stream 1275 channels in here flowing, again, west to east getting into this higher-level stream, which also then has a flood plain, 1276 so it's a FEMA flood plain and regulated. Where we overlap is like 8,000 square feet or so out of 90 acres in an area 1277 that's protected by your stream buffer ordinance and the state's regulations also. So, one of the review comments 1278 from the state was it's there, make sure it's dealt with, and that's sort of a recommendation both to us and to you as 1279 the County. What we haven't shown on here, is we have ended our buffers at our property line because we don't 1280 want to be presumptive and draw a buffer on somebody else's property line. It may not be a buffer on their property 1281 line based on their use in the future, and so we've tried not to get fingerprints on something and 5 years from now it 1282 gets interpreted incorrectly. 1283 1284 Lamar Proctor: I guess my question, generally, is it seems like the site plan is consistent with preserving the 1285 rural character to the degree that you can. I was just wondering if you want to comment a little more about 1286 preservation, and green spaces, and protection of the stream buffers on this property and how that fits into the overall 1287 design. 1288 1289 Scott Radway: Well, as you heard Ed talk about, who's a principal, and the members of H4D and 2T, the sort 1290 of marching orders was, this looks like a piece of property that's gentle to build on, it does have environmental 1291 pieces, they want a lot of trails and want a lot of other things for active adults, not necessarily baseball fields. But, in 1292 looking at the property, then the challenge to John Felton and to 2T and working on this together was how do we, in 1293 essence, be invisible to the public, if you will, on the roads. What we have is one roadway entrance that'll come from 1294 Morrow Mill Road and come into the site and except as you go past it and probably have a 60-foot-wide opening in 1295 what’s now treed land; you will notice that it's anything other than we have to provide turning lanes for NCDOT's 1296 evaluation. The entrance character on Gold Mine will even be a lesser impact because it can be really simply, it's 1297 going to be a 20-foot-wide paved surface because that's what emergency services needs. But, it goes through a 1298 forest on a pass where we're trying to use the existing logging road that was in there from many, many years ago, 1299 and so we're trying to have it as little at the edge of the property that somebody would see. If you like speed limit 1300 kinds of considerations, or if you like baseball and know how far a ball can go at a hundred miles an hour, and how 1301 many feet in how many seconds. People driving by those entrances will have about 3 seconds to notice that they're 1302 there. And, that's sort of a sales pitch, but it's also real. 1303 1304 Lamar Proctor: And you talked about you were going to incorporate solar and minimize any light pollution. I 1305 was wondering if you could just comment on those things. 1306 1307 Scott Radway: I can. Solar, the layout, I'm not going to go back to the layout in detail, but the layout with what 1308 you can see on here and, obviously, we have 24, 25 acres in this area that's going to be disturbed, and some of it will 1309 be tree removal, and that's part of what your ordinance addresses for the number of plantings and trees we have to 1310 put back in. But what you see in here in what are the single-family or the townhouse rooftops, there's also a 1311 detached garage. So, you have a 1,200 to 1,500 single-floor, two-bedroom house with a detached garage space, or 1312 two-parking spaces. The roofs and the roofs of both of those, a separate garage and a separate house, can be fit 1313 with a roof line that will go whatever direction it needs to go to capture the sun as the sun rotates through the site. 1314 So, a part of the ability to work with solar and part of the ability to do some of the other pieces is because the building 1315 model is going to be one in which the flexibility to change the shape of a garage, or not necessarily the shape of it, 1316 but the roof orientation of the garage, is possible for every piece of property in here so each piece of property can get 1317 an orientation that does that, and that's the level of detail that the H4D and the 2T people charged John with figuring 1318 out. 1319 1320