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administrative reduction as well as the other things that they mentioned about the number of 1 <br />bedrooms and the septic size. When I was speaking with the planning staff the other day, I said, 2 <br />"This is the worst lot in Lake Orange," and they said, "Well, the second worst." So, the other one is 3 <br />pretty bad, I'll have to admit, but it's landlocked, or lake-locked, I guess you would say, and this 4 <br />one does have road frontage. We also noticed, interestingly enough, the house that's directly 5 <br />across the street, I probably should have included it, but it's actually within 31 feet of the right of 6 <br />way. I don't know the provenance of how that house got there, but it's within the 40-foot. It must 7 <br />have gotten some sort of variance or reduction at some point in time in the past, but this structure 8 <br />will look very much in keeping with the house across the street. I don't know if you all had an aerial 9 <br />image that we could pull up, but, if you all want to see that, we can show it to you. So, what I did 10 <br />was I started laying out all the different setbacks, and since we're going to mainly be talking about 11 <br />the front setback, that's this 40-foot setback right here. And then, in conjunction with that is the 20-12 <br />foot side setback on both sides. And then, when you overlay the adjacent properties' wells with 13 <br />their 50-foot well setbacks, that's what this line is. And the well also has to be 50 feet from the 14 <br />reservoir, so, that's what this line is. But here is the 75-foot administratively reduced reservoir 15 <br />setback, and then here is the 100-foot sewer setback, and then in conjunction with that, you have 16 <br />to have a 5-foot setback from the structure to the septic field, so, that reduces the septic 17 <br />additionally. So, in reality, if you look at this dotted line and follow this around, that's really the only 18 <br />buildable area. And this structure we're proposing, it's only 25 feet wide; so, that's if we're allowed 19 <br />to get the 30-foot setback. It's only a 750-square-foot building. That's with the proposed setback, 20 <br />so, it's not an unreasonable-size structure. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Leon Meyers: Questions, Board members? 23 <br /> 24 <br />Kyle Myers: So, can you just confirm that the yellow shape is the structure we're talking about? 25 <br /> 26 <br />David Cates: Yes, sir. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Kyle Myers: And it's not a garage, it's a dwelling? 29 <br /> 30 <br />David Cates: It's a garage with bedrooms. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Kyle Myers: Okay. Thank you. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Beth Bronson: It's a garage with a septic. 35 <br /> 36 <br />David Cates: Correct. A garage with bedrooms with septic, correct. Yes, it could be two bedrooms with a 37 <br />garage. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Leon Meyers: Have you shown the well on the McHale's parcel? If there were a well on the adjacent parcel to 40 <br />the south, that would have an impact on the septic field, but maybe that's not a problem. Do you 41 <br />happen to know that? 42 <br /> 43 <br />David Cates: You're talking about this well setback here? 44 <br /> 45 <br />Leon Meyers: Well, that's the proposed well site, right? And I was just saying, if there were a well on the 46 <br />adjacent property, you would have a similar kind of thing. 47 <br /> 48 <br />David Cates: That's correct. Yes. I think their well is further away than that. 49 <br /> 50 <br />4