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DRAFT 850 for farming? Or, you know, where are there other instances where this is in place?" And 851 so, you know, I'm still struggling a little bit in terms of what are we trying to preserve if it's 852 just a big open field for septic. Because the reason I care is if they just had the regular 853 lots, those fields would still be there; they would just be all dispersed around, and I guess 854 that's what we're trying to do with this. Does that make sense? 855 856 Tom Altieri: Yeah, I mean, it does make sense. And I think the trade-off is a higher percentage of 857 open space. 858 859 Chris Johnston: Sure. Contiguous open space. 860 861 Tom Altieri: Typically like 65 percent open space. 862 863 Chris Johnston: Sure. 864 865 Tom Altieri: To allow the drain field and that it counts as part of that open space, you know, I guess 866 you'd have to determine whether you think that's reasonable or not. Randall Arendt 867 described, it's a place that people can walk their dogs, you know, you can throw a 868 baseball in it. Depending on how the layout of the houses and the roads, that it can 869 provide a nice buffer from an adjacent neighborhood, or an adjacent roadway, and more 870 of a scenic vista, if you would. Similar to Hardscrabble, those are typically, at least at that 871 example and some others that he shared pictures of from around the country, generally 872 fenced-in with nice attractive-looking fencing. 873 874 Chris Johnston: But I think that was my—mentally I had to get over open space doesn't necessarily mean 875 preserved natural space. 876 877 Tom Altieri: Right. 878 879 Chris Johnston: I think that's where I got hung up about we're trying to preserve this space. It's got to be 880 natural or whatever the case may be, but it's not really because some quarter of it is now 881 being turned into a septic field, which could still be used for baseball and could still be 882 used for walking the dog or whatever the case may be, but it's not natural area, as it were. 883 884 Tom Altieri: Exactly, and you would hope that in this hypothetical subdivision that that drain field 885 wouldn't take up the entire 65 percent of the open space and there'd be other things that 886 are preserved as well, but I get it. Yep. Makes sense. 887 888 Chris Johnston: Cool. That's all I got. 889 890 Beth Bronson: I do have to step out, apologize. I do have to leave a little bit early. I wanted to say thank 891 you, Tom, for this presentation as well as compiling everything, for us because this is, it's 892 an extremely relevant thing to everything the planning board is doing and to how the 893 commissioners are simultaneously working through this. 894 895 Statler Gilfillen: I'll second your comment. 896 897 Tom Altieri: You're welcome. 898 899 Beth Bronson: And thank you very much.