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Approved 9.3.25 1427 Delores Bailey: Lamar can I ask a quick question? 1428 1429 Lamar Proctor: Sure. 1430 1431 Delores Bailey: Can you tell us what you all imagine your typical family is going to be able to afford in this 1432 neighborhood? 1433 1434 Beth Trahos: I can't tell you what the prices of the homes would be. Again, Forestar is a developer they don't 1435 actually build them. 1436 1437 Delores Bailey: They don't have an approximately square footage cost,though? Approximately? A range. 1438 1439 Beth Trahos: They don't build them. But they would be market-rate housing for sure. And I would expect if 1440 would be families in this area, so folks with kids of varying ages. I certainly see it as a desirable 1441 and attractive area, and I see the amenities as things that would be of interest to me with my 1442 family and kids. 1443 1444 Delores Bailey: And just a real quick point for you. In Orange County,the biggest housing need is for those 1445 families that make 50,000 and below. But it doesn't sound like this subdivision would be for them. 1446 1447 Beth Trahos: Likely not. It would be a market-rate community. But my understanding is that there are needs for 1448 houses at all levels throughout the triangle. And with the growth that y'all are seeing. Just even 1449 that 2010 to 2020 before folks started moving because of COVID, 15,000 more people, 11 percent 1450 of the population. My view is that's continuing with everything that I'm seeing throughout the area. 1451 We hope you will find that this is a balance that you can live with. Enough of the environmental 1452 protections. Enough of the open space and amenities and some opportunity for homes. 1453 1454 Lamar Proctor: Any other questions? 1455 1456 Beth Bronson: Sorry. Yeah, sorry, I didn't get a chance to ask. Besides the well and septic. I share a lot of the 1457 same concerns with the septic just because of the density hasn't been necessarily tested out here 1458 in this rural area, and as far as comparison lots, all of the other lots in the area are reflective of R1 1459 zoning. Is that accurate? 1460 1461 Beth Trahos: There are, in the power point,there are existing septic systems on 20,000-square foot lots in 1462 Orange County. And some of them actually, I believe built in the 60s and 70s. 1463 1464 Beth Bronson: Yes. I saw that part. I meant like within that area. Within that intersection of White Cross. 1465 Between White Cross and Orange Grove? 1466 1467 Beth Trahos: To my knowledge, I don't know. There are some smaller lots there. I certainly see them 1468 throughout the triangle,functioning well, and I think David shared that, his experience too. 1469 1470 Beth Bronson: Certainly yes. I mean, again, I'm not an expert in that, and I would absolutely defer it to the 1471 permitting experts to provide that information to you. But it does kind of raise the question. In the 1472 application, I see that it changed from like 40 houses, or 40 lots to 41 to 43. And now, I believe 1473 the application is for 45? Home lots? 1474 1475 Beth Trahos: There were some iterations of the application as we were finalizing our design, and with the just 1476 sheer number of consultants that we brought in to make sure we were covering every aspect, 1477 some folks picked up an earlier number of lots, so you do see that. What is proposed is 43 lots. 1478 That is on your plan and that plan is a committed element that. 1479 1480 Beth Bronson: 43 is the committed. 1481