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Approved 8.7.24 submit your comments to the board of county commissioners, and you can also go to the 103 board of county commissioners meeting and have your public comments heard there 104 when this application gets to them. With nothing else, we're going to give the applicant 105 his 5 minutes to update us on what he had changed and then we're going to move on to 106 questioning and get onto the public comment. 107 108 Edwin Cox: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good evening, everyone. I'm Edwin Cox. I'm the president 109 of Hands Four. We've heard some comments at the June 5th meeting to the effect that it 110 was not clear that we were fully committed to be a community of elderly residents and that 111 we needed, or it would be advisable for us to provide, some sort of very credible indication 112 that that is the case, and we took that to heart. We went back and became more fully 113 informed about what it means to be a community of persons 55 and older. That is 114 enshrined in the law and a very specific terminology. It brings very specific criteria for 115 being such a community. I won't go into those now for the lack of time, but we studied 116 that very carefully and became more informed, and we took it to our community, our 117 cooperative, and as a cooperative we have now decided that we will declare ourselves to 118 be a community for persons 55 and older. I can explain more about that in response to 119 questions later in the meeting, but that's what we have to say at the moment. 120 121 AGENDA ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES 122 123 Adam Beeman: Thank you very much. I also had to approve the minutes from last month. Do I have a 124 motion to approve last month's minutes? 125 126 MOTION BY Chris Johnston to approve the meeting minutes. Seconded by Lamar Proctor 127 128 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 129 130 Adam Beeman: All right. Beth? You're up if you have any questions for the applicant because you didn't 131 get a chance to finish. 132 133 Beth Bronson: Thank you. The last time I was up here, I asked about the utilities and emergency 134 services, I believe that was where we left off. I guess that my question for the applicant 135 would be what kind of integration or communication have you had with the county's 136 emergency services or the volunteer fire departments, first responders, as to how you 137 would handle an emergency in the rural area for the group medical centers? 138 139 Scott Radway: Thank you for the question. I don't have a graphic up here yet or available to show that 140 as deep in all the other material that's in there, but for a quick answer, let me do the 141 emergency responder person issue first. Orange County requires that residential 142 developments that have more than 100 dwelling units have two ways in and out to the 143 property and that's what we have on the plan, a primary entrance on Morrow Mill Road 144 and what we believe will be an emergency vehicle service entrance only from Goldmine 145 Loop. We have worked with them at a number of meetings and gone through the various 146 pieces of fire protection that are needed, police protection, vehicles, how they get in and 147 how they get out, how they work within the internal road system, and then connected that 148 also with what happens for fire service, which was a portion of the question, and for fire 149 service, there's different layers for the proposed three multi-story, three-story buildings. 150 Those all have to be sprinklered. So, part of the system that we will be putting in place, 151 the wells and the public water system regulated by the state, will be lines of sufficient 152