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Robert Davis: Yes. There was one clarification I kind of wanted to get in. It had to do with the services of the schools. We did a fiscal impact attachment, and that came back negative. Under the financial impact, you can see that. I failed to point that out. Currently, the capital cost per single-family is $5,364 and the impact fee is $3,000. Also, staff is recommending the payment in lieu impact fee and not the public dedication for parks. That would work out to about $19,000. Question from Planning Board member: Have you had any discussions with the County's housing department? Bob Barrett: At the beginning of our investigation of this project, we looked at doing the project with community funds and County funds. We felt that there were too many restrictions on that for the homeowners. But we are working with EmPOWERment, as you'll see in the packet. And we're donating $500 for each house built to EmPOWERment, and we are making up to 10- 20% of the houses available for EmPOWERment. Brian Crawford: I didn't see anything in here about any type of market or capture study to see how you would sell the lots. Bob Barrett: From a marketing standpoint, we've been in contact with the University of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina Hospital and discussed with their human resources department the availability of housing available for the workforce for those two institutions. They have found that it is a serious issue with them. We in fact met with Mr. Evans, the Director of the Carolina North project, to discuss how they plan to address affordable housing in their project. They haven't made any commitments yet to that and are still taking it under consideration. We found, in talking with human resources, and this is in general terms, from their departments, that each of those institutions hire approximately 1,000 people a year. And we're talking about staff positions. These are not the upper positions, the six-figure salary positions. These are folks that are just working at the hospital and university. There is a transition, of course, but that is where our marketing effort is going to be strongly based. We do know that there will be quite a demand. There's quite a pent-up demand for this. According to the planning study that was done for the County, we found that there were thousands of people commuting outside the County. It was a very lopsided community. That is, people that live in the County and travel outside the County was a much smaller number than those people that work in the County and have to travel some distance in. Bob Barrett: It takes about 15 minutes from this property to get to the parking on Eubanks Road. Commissioner Carey: You mentioned you were going to make some of these houses available to EmPOWERment. What does that mean? Bob Barrett: EmPOWERment has people that are trying to get into particular housing. We're working with them to find those individuals that are part of the EmPOWERment program that would consider this particular location for housing. Renee Price: With the increase in pressure for water if there is a problem from the right-of- way to the house, would that mean an expense for the homeowner? Would the homeowner have to pay for that? Geof Gledhill: I don't know.