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And thiswould scar the property from an esthetic point of view and from a visual point of view, to
an extent which is una-ceptable and which can be avoided by the use of a sewage treatment plant,
which permits all those trees to remain. The use of this, the avoidance of all this clearing also
provides for slightly more flexibility in the location of parking facilities, parking areas. It
will enable you to design your parking lots in a more esthetic manner, preserving trees where you
find them rather than coming up with the most efficient engineering solution, which is required by
the location of the drain fields, etc.
Finally, the treatment plant being a single location for the collection and treatment of the
sewage is less likely in the long run to interfere with any existing potential well sites, sources
of potable drinking water for persons in the project, less likely to create run-offs, break-outs, or
bubbling up of untreated sewage, which is always a possibility in a septic system, no matter how
well designed.
So for all these reasons, we believe that a sewage treatment facility is a better solution than
septic tanks, given the large coordinated project with the ability to handle its waste in a treat-
ment plant, large enough to support a treatment plant with the kind of operation required.
With respect to the permitted uses, we believe that the sewage treatment plant is a permitted
use within this ^.rdinance, that it is permitted within planned residential districts. As to the
development standards, we believe that the sewage treatment plant will enhance the development's
capability of creating an environment of sustained desirability and stability. This treatment
plant, as proposed, does meet the set -back and other use restrictions of the PRD zone.
Plans for the PRD septic, sewer system, plans for the sewer system will be reviewed by the
North Carolina Division of Health Services and the Iredell County Health Department and other
appropriate state agencies, and final approval is required before building permits may be issued for
a PRD.
The above -ground sewage treatment facility, that we are specifically proposing here, will be
buffered as required in Section 41.6 of your PRD ordinance.
Liability insurance in the minimum amounts required by the ordinance will be maintained on all
parts of this sewage disposal system to reasonably insure against liability incurred by the malfunc-
tion or misfunction of the systems. Such coverage will be maintained by the property owners' asso-
ciation as required by the PRD ordinance.
This proposed modification does show the approximate location of this proposed sewage treatment
facility. This application for the modificiation is accompanied by a new site plan, which is drawn
in accordance with the provisions listed in Section 87.10 of your ordinance.
This proposal will comply with Section 87.11 as to construction affecting Lake Norman, and
precautions will be taken to protect the quality of the water in the lake. As was the case in our
original proposal, the PRO will be buffered from the adjacent residential properties in accordance
Section 87.2, paragraph (h) of your ordinance, with open space of at least. 45 feet or three times
the height of the building, whichever is greater, between any building or accessory use and the
property line of the PRD.
The PRD does contain commonly owned, permanently useable open space. The purpose of the open
space is provide areas for active and passive recreation immediately adjacent to the dwelling units.
Another benefit of the sewage treatment plant as opposed to septic drain fields is that the
open spaces become available for more uses under use with a sewage treatment plant than would have
been the case had they been areas for location of septic drainfields or repair areas for future
septic drainfields.
I've got, we've got several other people here tonight to respond to specific questions, most of
them you would know and will identify themselves. One that you may not know is a gentlemen by the
name of C. D. Malone. Mr. Malone is a professional engineer, located in Winston-Salem. He has long
experience in the operation of large and small sewage treatment plants and facilities. I'm going to
ask him to tell you a little bit about himself, a little bit about his background, about his
qualifications to speak as an expert on the question of whether sewage treatment plants or septic
tank facilities are likely to be more desirable in a development of this kind.
DAVENPORT: Are you finished right now? I wanted to allow the opponents to cross-examine you
if you are finishing your statements without, if that's o.k. Do have more statement now?
HOLLAN: No. I think that
DAVENPORT: I was wondering if you were winding up. I thought you were going to introduce him
and he was going to take off.
HOLLAN: That's what I was going to do, but we'll do however you want to.
DAVENPORT: Is there an enponent registered on this?
BRYAN: Yes, sir. '