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Approved 9.3.25 1152 1153 Lamar Proctor: Any other comments? 1154 1155 Venkat Yendapalli: I'm probably on the same topic here he just discussed. So, you have some of the lots at less than 1156 half an acre. And you just made a point that you have to leave 10-foot buffers along the boundary 1157 of each lot. Is that enough room for the primary septic field and the repair field? For the four- 1158 bedroom home sites is there enough land? Assuming that we have the best soil from the area, is 1159 there enough lands from the fields? Less the footprint of the house and everything else. The 1160 driveways and everything else you have to exclude. Have you even looked at the concept to plan 1161 for these lots? You know if that is even possible? 1162 1163 David Barcal: Yeah. That's the four concept plans that we put together. 1164 1165 Venkat Yendapalli: Four? 1166 1167 David Barcal: Four. Four of the tighter sites, I would say. And then also,we've done the due diligence of 1168 looking at some other 20,000-square foot lots that has same septic requirements in the area of 1169 Orange County. And then also our experience of doing,we have done other subdivisions with 1170 20,000 square foot minimum lots that we've been able to get four-bedroom homes in. 1171 1172 Venkat Yendapalli: Two other topics I want to touch on is the impervious surface. How much impervious surface are 1173 we creating? How much is allowed here? I think probably the planning team may have looked 1174 into it. 1175 1176 Beth Trahos: With regard to the permitted impervious surface, my recollection is its 24 percent. Is that correct? 1177 1178 Don Sever: 24 percent. 1179 1180 Beth Trahos: Yes, is the allowed impervious area. 1181 1182 Venkat Yendapalli: So, the storm water ponds created here is designed to capture all that? 1183 1184 Beth Trahos: This is our civil engineer. 1185 1186 Venkat Yendapalli: Okay. All right,from a civil engineer as you've done the homework, but every topic is I think some 1187 of my colleagues already touched on the well capacity. In 43 homes, there being one well, don't 1188 you think there's no problems there. Anything goes wrong with the well, and there's no water 1189 coming to 43 homes? Is that a good design, or do you have to have, particularly what I've seen in 1190 my past experience, is there's more than one well so if one well fails,the residents are not left 1191 holding an empty bucket. 1192 1193 Beth Trahos: The analysis, and Ward might come back up and talk about that, but the analysis that he found 1194 really quadrupled the capacity that the state would require for this site. So,we feel like that's 1195 good. 1196 1197 Donna Crowder: Just so you know, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Aqua. It's a private utility company. 1198 1199 Venkat Yendapalli: I'm familiar with Aqua. Yeah. 1200 1201 Donna Crowder: Okay, so Aqua has agreed to take over the maintenance and testing and ownership of the entire 1202 water system. So, in the event that there's failures, they are legally responsible for fixing and 1203 maintaining and providing water in the event that something happens, in the event that the system 1204 fails. So, it's not going to be on the homeowner's association to try to find a plumber in the middle 1205 of the night. Aqua is going to be billing the homeowner directly and will be responsible for all the 1206 maintenance and making sure that that well is doing what it's supposed to. I will say that they do