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Planning and Zoning Commission <br />Minutes <br />November 9, 2021 <br />Comment #4 - The plantings located in the wetland restoration area were run over by some type <br />of equipment. It looked like that area was growing back up and there was no evidence of <br />disturbance. <br />Comment #5 Landscape buffers located along Mount Pleasant Road South and Joyner Road <br />should be maintained with mulch. The buffers along these roads are not being maintained and <br />the Board will need to decide how to proceed with the buffers in those area. <br />Comment #6 The entire site, including drainage basin areas, need to be seeded and stabilized. <br />The main focus of these basins were the ones in South America. They hired a contractor, and the <br />contractor went out there. Prior to that, if the Board remembers, there was a plan that they <br />submitted, but the Board did not receive that plan because Staff did not have time to review it <br />and the Engineer did not have time to review it. <br />Since that time, there was some back and forth on what needed to happen at the site. We all went <br />to the site, Staff, the County Engineer and Kenny Llewellyn with the State, to make sure <br />everybody was on the same page. Mr. Llewellyn did a report following up with that. He provided <br />some additional guidance to their Engineer who was on site when we were there. He provided <br />some additional guidance, some things that he wanted to see moving forward. If you looked at <br />the report that he filed, the basins now are no longer basins, they are considered stormwater <br />conveyance features. <br />Before, we were primarily focusing on stormwater and how does that stormwater get conveyed <br />down to the stream. That is how moving forward the site will be handled. It will be put on a <br />rotation for inspection and the expectation is that Canadian Solar, or whoever is responsible for <br />operations and maintenance of the site, will be working closely with the State to make sure those <br />conveyance features are working properly and also to minimize erosion and scouring on the site. <br />Some of that is back, it is a 750 something acre site, it is huge, it was trees, now it is solar panels. <br />That is going to be an ongoing issue for them that they will need to address. But, for the most <br />part, they do have a lot of it under control. There are still some areas that are steep and <br />depending on how much water there is, it is going to be a continual issue that they will have to <br />keep an eye on and maintain. <br />Overall, the status was considered non-compliant. But he was willing to, for a lack of a better <br />term, release the site, but not really release it. It is going to be under the stormwater program, <br />and it will have to be looked after. But he (Mr. Llewellyn) was okay with the current site <br />condition, to say okay, if Cabarrus County is okay with moving forward with providing them <br />with their close out documentation, then he is okay with that, as long as they hold up their end of <br />the bargain with taking care of the site. <br />Comment # 7 was related to the strapping on the site. The strapping is still there, and it has <br />served its intended purpose and it is no longer needed. It is now restricting growth, hindering <br />translocation, and causing mortality. <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />