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line is already serving Efland-Cheeks Elementary School. Just to tell you the problem we had with the sewage when they built the new Gravelly School on West Ten Road, it wasn't ready, they had to pump the sewer over there on School House Road. The odor that the community endured with that was awful. That's a sewage problem. If you're going to put that many more houses, and we couldn't even handle Gravelly's sewer for a few months. That's a concern for me. My other concern is that, if you notice on there, there are streams and rivers throughout this land. I never heard anything said about fences or how they will maintain those streams or what they will do for these streams for the concern of the children. School House Road and Tinnin Road, those roads are too small to make them wider to consider the traffic flow, and more people now are dropping their young children off at school. They can't leave these little 6 and 7 year olds to wait on the bus. We talked to the Sheriff's Department, who put someone on duty just to help direct traffic now so people can get in and out and drop their children off to school and they can go on to work. If we're going to put in 45 more houses, who's going to handle all of that traffic of going to school and people trying to get into work? Is this going to be an overcrowding for Efland-Cheeks Elementary School? If that's a problem, then we're going to be looking at our younger children being bused to schools further away from our community, which we would not like to see. And also, the easement across the property, the owners over there have not decided how they want to use their land. They may run into difficulty in trying to get an easement. Chair Jacobs: What is the current density in the surrounding neighborhood? Robert Davis: It's all R1, which is 40,000 square feet. It is a one-acre density. Chair Jacobs: What's the density of Ashwick? Robert Davis: Ashwick, I think came out to, it's more than 1. It couldn't exceed the density of the zoning, and the zoning is 40,000 feet. What happened there is that it went down on lot size, but the difference was picked up in open space. There's 56% open space in there, which worked out to one-acre density. Geof Gledhill: Chairman, there was no rezoning requested for Ashwick. Chair Jacobs: And Richmond Hills, is that also? Robert Davis: Yes. They're all R1. This would be rezoned. Chair Jacobs: You mentioned that some of the open space for Ashwick was part of the lots? Robert Davis: There was a back portion of some lots in the 100 foot building serback area. The HOA land primarily backed up to McGowan Creek. What happened on that one, it followed the conventional plan, but met most of the standards of the flexible plan. So what you had were portions of the open space that were totally under control of the homeowner's association, and then other portions along the perimeter where the open space exceeded 33% when we asked for some additional land. The tradeoff on that was to not take any more lots than what they had already started out with. So what we ended up with were about 10 or 12 lots that had a 100-foot building setback on private property. The case that we had a couple of years back was a gentleman had built his house and his deck right up to that 100 feet line and then wanted to build a wood workshop. We recently had a request for a swimming pool. Churton Grove has a similar 100-foot buffer. When they own it and buy it and see the property corners all the way out there, it makes it more difficult to explain to someone that you can't build anything on it. That's