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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes November 9, 2021 to table this case. Canadian Solar had submitted some documents as closeout documents based on site conditions. At that time, the Board decided that they wanted to form a committee and that committee has since visited the site. If the Board remembers, a summary memo was provided to the applicant. The applicant, since that time, has been working on trying to resolve those comments that were submitted by the committee. County Staff and NCDEQ Staff visited the site in October 2021, and the findings are provided in the new memo. County Staff made an additional visit back to the site, so you will see that some of the pictures are dated differently. She said looking at the memo, Comment #1, the gap area on Joyner Road has been planted. If the Board remembers, one of the things that the Committee needed to decide on was the as-built landscape plan that Canadian Solar had provided. Some of that landscape was not installed, some of it was installed in different areas and some of it was also substituted. The Committee decided they were good with the plan, and how it looked at that time. Which now, over a year and a half has passed. The memo that we are talking about specifically addresses those issues. That area has been planted with Leyland Cypress and hollies, as you can see in this photo from October 29, 2021. The left side of the access road, where the house is adjacent to the fence, the first time that Staff went out there, there were no trees there. We let Canadian Solar know that, and they notified us that the trees had been installed. You can see that on October 27, 2021, those trees were installed in that area and they are located in the general area where the Committee wanted them to be located. Comment #2 - As far as the Stream/Wetland and Floodplain Restoration areas, Mr. Charles Bass accompanied us on site. He works for the Soil and Water Conservation District which is a part of our department. He went out with us because the planting plan that was approved for the restoration in that area was through their division. Mr. Bass was in general pleased with the plantings that were there. We did see some areas where some of the small seedlings, it looked like they had gotten some bad seedlings. She said that is a thing. We did not know that was thing, but it is a thing. Some of them are dead. But, in his opinion, the other trees that were there were meeting the plan and the intent of what the original staff member had worked out in that plan. The photos that you see are from October 12, 2021. In some of those, you can see where the small flags were; you also had the updated memo that Canadian Solar provided, that had additional pictures from back when those were originally installed. It has been quite some time, because we were trying to make one site visit and kind of be done with everything. Some of those flags were there and some of them were not. 5