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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes January 8, 2019 17 So, the result of that, is the plantings that are occurring now along Mount Pleasant Road are the proposed plantings for under power lines; there are no canopy trees planted there. There is a substitution of two understory trees for every canopy tree. The good news is that NC 102 Project has permission to encroach on the power line easement to some extent, and you will see in some of the slides you can see the power lines and you can see the encroachment. In this picture, the road is behind the photographer, Mount Pleasant Road is behind the photographer. The foreground is the power line easement. I also have to tell you that these plantings are not complete. The buffer installation is in progress. This is the southern part of the buffer close to the Stewart corner, where some of the trees in the background are existing. Those are not planted. Here is a shot of the buffer plants in the power line easement. In fact, at the base of it, and for scale, there is a couple of workers here. The fence is eight feet tall. The trees in the background are the Stewart property. The new piece of evidence is the applicant proposes a modification to the plan EXLA 1.0. (Exhibit 5 -EXLA 1.0 -Encroachment Exhibit -was marked for identification) MR. BENSHOFF: The rest of us will have to make do with the digital version. There is an additional buffer added to the overall buffer scheme; it is called B8 on the plan, which I will show you in a minute, and it is a combination of these two buffers. It is the one on the right with the understory trees and the shrubs. In addition to that, a double row of Nellie Stevens hollies, eight to 10 feet tall at planting, planted on 15-foot centers and in a two-row stagger. It is a combination of this one on the left and this one on the right, back to back. This additional buffer is shown in the red line on the drawing; that is this line. It is not added entirely around the perimeter; it is added primarily, in those areas where some of the buffer was cut down. Last month we proposed supplemental plantings and Mr. Guy gave his professional opinion that they would be adequate, they would meet the ordinance; this is in addition to that. So you will see there is a double row of ten-foot tall hollies proposed along almost all of the north side of Joyner Road and on the south side at the west side and going around the site in a clockwise direction. Most of the Mount Pleasant Road frontage gets this additional treatment. Continuing down Joyner Road, the new B8 buffers will lap most of the corner and they are close to the road here, at the corner of Mount Pleasant and Joyner Road, because the easement takes a jog to the west so they are outside of the power line easement. Going down Mount Pleasant Road, the B8 buffer goes the whole way to the Stewart property buffer, skips over the Stewart property, and then goes along Mount Pleasant Road in front of the substation and picks up again on the southern boundary of the substation, in this area. Finally, we move to the very southern end of the site where the buffer is proposed, around the encroachment at the Presley property here and around the corner where the property turns around Vanderburg Estates. At the Presley property, going up the Vanderburg Estates line, there is a proposed new buffer between the arrays and Bost Creek, running east to west here. Going up Vanderburg Estates, the first five lots have this treatment, and that parallels the unnamed tributary of Bost Creek. Finally, it is added at this corner of Vanderburg Estates, for those two