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Approved 9.3.25 769 the lots we picked were the weird, funky-shaped lots where you would have the most difficult 770 trouble in some of them. And the few spots that there wasn't suitable soil, you'll see one where it 771 was going through, so we chose those lots. I don't have the square footage on the top of my 772 head. 773 774 Donna Crowder: But those are just examples anyway, right? 775 776 David Barcal: Yeah. 777 778 Charity Kirk: And so,with the conservation subdivision,why did you choose to do half-acre lots rather than, 1 779 mean, it makes more financial sense, but is there any other rationality to do smaller lots when it's 780 becoming a sort of a question for the community of not matching the existing area. 781 782 Beth Trahos: As a land planner, my understanding of the goal of the conservation was to have the smaller lots, 783 and the smaller the better, so that more area could be preserved in that open space. And so, 1 784 think the balance was,what is a reasonable lot that can accommodate the individual septic but still 785 allow for the broader area to be preserved. So, this was where we came down. 786 787 Charity Kirk: And have you considered offering any of these units or having any of these units be low-income 788 housing? Or like having a percentage be allotted to low-income housing? 789 790 Beth Trahos: Our expectation is that this will be a market rate project and given the development costs in the 791 area,that's our expectation moving forward, so, no. 792 793 Charity Kirk: Okay. I think I'm done for now. 794 795 Chris Johnston: Okay. I have no questions. Thank you. 796 797 Lamar Proctor: So, good evening. So, on Page 121, under general under No. 3. It says R-CD,which is a 798 residential conditional district. It includes a note for lots outside of a watershed protection overlay 799 district. The minimum usable lot are for lots that utilize ground absorption wastewater systems. 800 So that's septic, right? 801 802 Donna Crowder: I'm sorry. I'm not caught up with you. 121. 803 804 Lamar Proctor: Page 121. Planning section under the bottom. 805 806 Donna Crowder: Okay, yes. 807 808 Lamar Proctor: So, it's the minimum usable lot area for lots that utilize ground absorption wastewater system shall 809 be 30,000 square feet for parcels between 40,000 square feet and 1.99 acres in size. And then it 810 says consider the inclusion of the condition addressing that the proposed lot size is deviating from 811 the minimum and that the parcels will include suitable septic. I'm reading that right? That there's 812 a concern. And I appreciate the smaller lot sizes. I think that's the right direction. To concentrate 813 human housing and give more room to the environment. But how is septic going to work?Am 1 814 reading that right? That there's a concern that the lot size is for septic get problematic. 815 816 Beth Trahos: And so,there again,we also conducted the experts, and David Barcal is our septic expert, and he 817 can talk to you about how that would work. 818 819 David Barcal: Yeah, we've done a preliminary soils analysis on the site that I talked about by a licensed soil 820 scientist as is mentioned earlier. Pretty much the whole development site was rated for 821 conventional use which is the highest quality soil you're going to find in this area. And we did 822 provide a couple of those. We did select those four lots that were going to be more problematic or 823 the tougher ones to simulate what we could fit in there and what would work as far as a four-