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<br /> 218 conformance of a development and use of the site to local government ordinances and adoptive
<br /> 219 plans or the impact is reasonably expected to be generated by the development or use on site.
<br /> 220 You will find in the application that the applicant has proposed conditions. You as the Planning
<br /> 221 Board are also open to suggesting conditions, as is the Board of County Commissioners.
<br /> 222 Ultimately, the Board of County Commissioners and the applicant would have to agree to stated
<br /> 223 and imposed conditions. I think I might let the applicant also get into the conditions. I think you
<br /> 224 have that on your own slide show, so I'll keep these here for reference, but we can come back to
<br /> 225 them as needed, so there are a total of ten conditions, all of which are land use specific, and with
<br /> 226 that, I will hand it over to the applicant team. After the applicant presentation, I do plan on coming
<br /> 227 back to finalize some staff notes before we open up to board discussion and public comment.
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<br /> 229 Beth Bronson: The conditions are in the packet or are not in the packet?
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<br /> 231 Taylor Perschau: They are.
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<br /> 233 Beth Bronson: They are in the packet, so I just wanted to make sure.
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<br /> 235 Cy Stober: Staff has provided those conditions. In addition to the applicant's packet, they should be in the
<br /> 236 staff report,the ordinance,and the statement of consistency.
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<br /> 238 Lamar Proctor: I think they're on Page 82.
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<br /> 240 Beth Trahos: Good evening, Mr. Chair, and Planning Board members. My name is Beth Trahos. I am an
<br /> 241 attorney with Fox Rothschild, and I am here tonight on behalf of Forestar Development to propose
<br /> 242 the development of the 49-home community on Highway 86. 1 have with me a big team of experts
<br /> 243 who will be available tonight to answer any questions you have. Laura Haywood and Jason
<br /> 244 Rivenbark with Forestar, Don Sever,with Bowman,who is the civil engineer, Rachel Cotter and
<br /> 245 Nicole Steele with Weston and Sampson, our landscape architects, Josh Reinke with Bolton and
<br /> 246 Menk, the traffic engineer, Ward Marotti with Spangler Environmental and David Barcal with
<br /> 247 McConnell and Associates, and we have worked very closely with your staff who has been
<br /> 248 available and helpful and collaborative with us, and we really appreciate their professional
<br /> 249 expertise and assistance. This is the subject property. It is 79.76 acres on Highway 86 North. It
<br /> 250 is immediately adjacent to Town of Hillsborough corporate limits with the Eno River Academy to
<br /> 251 the back. There are a number of surrounding residentially focused land uses to the site. Of
<br /> 252 course,the Eno River Academy, Pathways Elementary School, Mars Baptist Church as well as
<br /> 253 some homes, some small neighborhoods, and some vacant land. The broader area here includes
<br /> 254 a wider variety of uses, HVAC repair, a construction company, Orange County Public
<br /> 255 Transportation,several churches, Fairview Park and more homes and neighborhoods and vacant
<br /> 256 land. You can see the variety of zoning that's out here, everything from AR to industrial, and in
<br /> 257 between. We propose residential conditional district, and as your staff said,that means we have
<br /> 258 committed to a concept plan as well as written conditions, and our goal with this plan is to provide
<br /> 259 much needed housing while representing the rural heritage of this area,which is now very close to
<br /> 260 the town of Hillsborough with its many desirable amenities, actually not so far from where we sit
<br /> 261 here today. I'm going to ask Rachel Cotter to come forward and talk with you about, about the
<br /> 262 design.
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<br /> 264 Rachel Cotter: Good evening, Mr. Chair and board members. The concept for this design is based in beautiful
<br /> 265 living that celebrates the local character and context, natural resources and context and culture of
<br /> 266 rural Orange County. These qualities are represented throughout our proposed design. First, to
<br /> 267 protect and celebrate the natural resources on site and regionally,we are clustering the proposed
<br /> 268 lots and thus limiting disturbance of the site. Different from many residential developments,we
<br /> 269 are not mass grading the site. We are maintaining stream and wetland buffers and preserving
<br /> 270 these features themselves keeping habitat and corridors in place to the extent possible. We have
<br /> 271 a total of 49 of the nearly 80 acres preserved as, or I'm sorry, proposed as tree protection areas.
<br /> 272 In terms of the character and context of the site, it is honored by the inclusion of a sculptural art
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