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June 2009 - Planning & Zoning Draft Meeting Minutes takes quite a while to get out of his driveway in the morning as it is, how much more traffic is this going to involve. They are going to have to widen the road and take some of his front yard to make a turn in lane; water quality is an issue. His property is registered with the National Wildlife Federation and he is concerned about the wildlife in that area. There were five deer hit by vehicles this fall right in front of his yard, and they have to be the ones to call animal control and have them removed. There is a buffer line on the east side of his house, how many of those trees are going to be cut down, and how many are going to be saved are his major concerns. The Chair said it appears that the preliminary plat that was approved two years ago will have to change; can we grant an extension on something that is not going to be what was originally approved? Mr. Koch does not think you can, because the request is for an extension of the existing plat. It is obvious that it has changed and it has changed not in just some little incidental way. Obviously, there is one lot that has been removed and he is not sure if that is necessarily that major, but certainly the pipeline. What you have is not something that shows exactly where it is suppose to go, and how it affects the buffers. The plat itself actually has a reference on it that there will be a conservation easement granted. That plat was approved and then the easement for the pipeline was granted several months after that; back in 2007. He said what is before the Board really is just a rendering of where the pipeline presumably is going to go. His understanding is that all those drawings have been engineered, and should be able to determine exactly how it impacts the buffers and how it impacts the area for the conservation easement and the other open areas; you do not have that before you and it renders the preliminary plat something that is going to be different from what was originally approved. Mr. Koch said if the Board chooses to approve the extension, he suppose that they can even with the qualifiers that he has given, or they can turn it down because it is not the same plat. The applicant is asking for an extension on something that is different from what he was approved and this other has not been approved, or the Board can put it his extension off for a month. He said the Board will have one more meeting before the two years are up. The Chair said just barely, it was July 19, 2007. Mr. Koch said the next meeting is July 16, 2009. Mr. Scribner asked if the problem is the pipeline that is creating this, because the plat has not change and he is not doing anything different than what was approved before. He said a government agency came to him and said they are going to take my land if I did not do this. They have proposed to put something there which they have not given him anything back to say where it goes. He wants clarification of how that is different then what has been approved. He wants to make sure it is the pipeline; that that is the issue. Mr. Koch thinks the pipeline is the primary issue, but Mr. Scribner granted the easement back in 2007, and the pipeline is going to go across his property in some areas that will change what was originally approved as a part of his plat and there has been no adjustment to plat in the mean time. Attachment number 9 Page 79 of 315 E-1