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currently that this location qualifies for that will enable qualifying homeowners to get 100% financing on a 30-year mortgage at a low-interest rate, and it's easier to qualify than FHA. We're trying to think of everything for the homeowners. Following this, you'll see what's available currently from the Triangle MLS for sale. You have a market analysis that shows the houses that are available for sale in the Efland-Cheeks school district. You'll see here that the average price per house available in this immediate area is costing $331,000. There are details of some of those houses. Following that in the final sheet there is a house for sale on School House Road for$74,000. A 967-square foot home that was built in 1951. We feel that, with all of the improvements that we're bringing to the neighborhood such as improved water and sewer and improved fire protection, improved roads, and just a generally improved style and type of house, that we will increase the value of the neighborhood and the area surrounding. John Harris, our engineer, is here with us. Renee Price: Do the properties on the other side of School House Road already have water and sewer? Robert Davis: Yes, School House Road has a three-inch water line, and there's about a three- inch line also on Tinnin Road. It's on the water map. But it's not good enough for fire protection or anything else. Even if they laid a new line, Orange-Alamance would leave the line existing as it is until it failed. What it would do is put fire hydrants closer to the rest of the neighborhood on the southern end of this neighborhood here and at the northern end of School House Road and at the northern end of Tinnin. It wouldn't necessarily provide any pressure increase on Tinnin back down towards 70, because the line would be coming up the back side of the lots. Potentially, in the event of a failure they may be able to hook up on the back side. There will not be any significant water pressure increase for School House or Tinnin under this. Bob Barrett: I was reminded, I should address the two issues that were brought up that we were looking for relief on. This is an affordable housing project. We're putting everything we can into these houses to really raise the quality of the houses. Every penny counts. Normally, as I pointed out, you have houses in Orange County that are over$300,000. With the current market conditions and the unstable cost of building right now, are doing all we can and have to make do with everything we've got. So, when we talk about, unlike some of the other areas surrounding us that don't have sidewalks and we have to cover the cost of sidewalks in this development, it becomes very difficult to maintain that budget. Additionally, we're asking for the conventional plan because of the affordability of the houses. With the flex plan, that has the 100-foot buffer around the property, not only does it make it more difficult for the houses to be located, we are also under the strain of only being able to build around 20-22 houses. At 45 houses, we can afford to do the project, it makes it worthwhile, and we're providing houses for more people. The way we've got this designed, we hope that, with the green space, the houses backing up to the green space, community residents will feel like they've got larger lots and that they've got more to do there. I hope you will consider our request. John Harris (Project Engineer): I was sworn in. With regard to the water line, the fact that we're putting a new water line in and looping it will increase the pressure of the three-inch line. You can't imagine the amount of pressure that will increase by coming in from two different directions instead of just from one direction. You're pushing water through a small line versus pushing it from both ends, it does increase the pressure. I don't imagine that the water utility wants to change over all those services. They probably will leave them as they are on the three-inch line. They will have a little bit better pressure. And then as things need to be repaired, they'll come out and switch it over to the new line. Also, the fact that the fire hydrant is in this subdivision are there, that increases the fire serviceability. So that's a benefit also. I