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Planningand Zoning Commission Minutes June 14, 2022 The second question was about drainage. He said Mr. Wong is here tonight,he testified at the hearing, andsowe can adopt his testimony from the last hearing also. Mr. Wongconfirmed with metoday and I have put this on the plan, that he has spoken with NCDNR,and no underground detention is needed on this site because the impervious is less than 24 percent,so it isconsidered low density by NCDNR. There would be no outstanding drainage questionof how that could affect the development and orientation of uses and improvementsofthis site. Those appear to be two of the main questionsthe Board had,and this chart is also on our plan. Those aretwo major updates,in addition to the physical and layout updates to our planthat we have. He said with regard to the 200-foot setback,obviously would be very impressive to this property. It would totally prohibit any new use or development of this property and so there really isnot much else to say about that. The setback is very extreme if it is applied to this property. With regard to the perimeter landscape buffers, what we focused on based uponcomments from this Boardwas getting any of the accessory use structures out of the buffer.So, they are all gone, there are no accessory use structures within the buffer. (Shows the buffer on plan) He said one of the unique things about this sitethatgoes to the hardships,isthatit has nonparallel property lines,and even this property line slants injust a little bit onthe east compared to the west.The rear property line slants in towards the building. So, the building was built almost on a north,south, east, west, coordinatebut it does not line up with the rear property line, and so the rear property line shifts in a little bit. By shifting the pool to the rear, we do not have any issue with the poolactuallybeing in the buffer,but the pool deck area to give enough space, a small portion of the pool deck area that is paved will be within that buffer area. Then on the northeastern corner, to get the walking trail around the end of the parking, the buffer juts out just a little bit more and so it is 23 feet in that area. It actually, kind of jogs out alittle bit inthenortheasterncorner and thencomes back inas it goes true north.This area right here, why you see a gap in the buffer, is because that is the cell tower easement.There would not be any planting there because thathas to be kept open and provide access to the cell phone tower. Then again, the walking trail has been shifted to the backof the planting buffer on the eastern side. He said these encroachmentsinto the buffer are all paved. They are all at gradeand so physically,there are no building structures within the buffer now,unlike inthe previous plan. These are just at grade, paved areasfor walking. There ismaybe one or two parking spaces maybe,in this northern area with theconnector to the cell towerand then a portion of the pool deck. There would also be some fence, but the fence is really for safety purposes because the fence surrounds the pool and outdoor areas which would be requiredby code to have fencing aroundthe pool areas.So, with regard to the buffer reduction, it is all at grade paving areas, no more structures. 15