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S3 May 21, 2008 Robert Davis, AICP Current Planning Supervisor Orange County~Planning Department PO Box 8181 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Dear Robert: This letter is in reference to our recent conversation about the proposed low income housing project that is to be located (as per my understanding) on lots pin numbered 9844493706, 9845405022, and 9845405243 lying in the vicinity of the intersection of Tinnen and School House Roads in Efland. My understanding of that conversation is that you need some sort of letter of certification or verification that: 1) these properties have access to the Efland sewer system; and 2) that the Efland sewer system has the capacity to accept the projected sewer flow from a 45 lot (+/-) subdivision. This letter is intended to provide that certification or verification as far as is possible. The properties pin numbered 9844493706 and 9845405022 both abut the right- of-way to School House Road and there is sewer in School House Road and its right-of-way. The property pin numbered 9845405243 is landlocked and does not have access to sewer without some sort of recombination and subdivision of the properties that would provide for an easement to that property. As I have not seen a final lot layout or sewer design layout for the proposed subdivision, I cannot verify that the entirety of these properties will have access to sewer without some sort of wastewater pumping station arrangement. I generally oppose the incorporation of wastewater pumping stations from new developments into the Efland sewer system if the County has to accept operational and maintenance responsibility for them. However, as this subdivision has been represented by the developer, Bob Barrett, as being for the purpose of developing low income housing, an important goal of the Board of County Commissioners, the Board may well override my objections. I can assure you that the Efland sewer system has the capacity, both in a physical sense and in the since of the contractual wastewater treatment agreement with Hillsborough to accept a projected (from a regulatory standpoint) 16, 200 gallon per day wastewater flow from the proposed subdivision.