the paramount health care read with slike to discuss an issue with their project so i'd like to put that on the agenda and move peter's creep to the bottom of the agenda because when they were building the house and positioning the house they needed to move the house of a little bit closer to their front property line so to maintain a fifty foot step back been to move this rear lot l are the topography of the land is all the surface run of just comes down on the backs of these logs but in this particular lot it's at the top of the slope and there's really no surface water getting to that area so there's no need for that drainage easement to be on this lot plus as grant said they built a retaining wall a french drain system that if anyone does get there it's captured by the french train system and taken to this property which really didn't convey that much or protect the residents out with that much is just pretty much the beginning point of that as well you so they didn't find it really expect the property owner to the last to the right those properties owned are one b which have a seven and a half foot side or step back requirement so they found what would happen in this case with a vari granting them seven feet would give them a similar setback as the adjacent properties to mirror that set back so they really want to have a negative impact on the adjacent properties as well as the slope on the right side and to lo is that slope which keep the views from the pool and we don't really have a negative impact on that neighbor property that is done see three business commercial it's just above and behind the maximum is property in cross winds drive the crossing sticks patio project that we proved a few months back that is under construction right here on the adjacent property and as part of networks under construction they need additional dirt to complete that project grabbing that dirt and taking it over to the patio home project there's a whole road here from this from this person the so they'd be hauling it on cross winds drive they'd be on their property taking the dirt off of course to see to the patio project their confining the excavation into the front porch in a prop up front portion of the property away from the neighborhood there's homes here and homes up in here so they're keeping everything down as far away from the neighborhood as possible and leaving the rear portion of the the property and the plan be approved subject to the conditions listed in my memo adjacent to the development site and it allows us to use there's an existing hole or that it provided you with the aerial photograph that shows good evening my name is james cox and the reason i'm here is the fact about the original plan for the landscaping that runs along these mcmurry road in front of the property and the original prove all was to remove the last tree from the landscape in the front of the building and then plan to additional trees after further looking at that location what i'm finding is that there really are no trees there that are salvageable that would look nice what we're trying to create obviously is a rolling landscape in front of the building to make it look country club residential in appearance from from east mcmurry and what we're seeing is that there just are no trees there that appear to be salvageable that we could even plant any other trees around it so it would have a nice appearance from us mcmurry so what i am asking for this evening i'm asking for approval to remove all of the trees in the shrubbery in the front of the property and to plant pear trees along the front and at that point we will have the front of that the property planted with grass seed it should have a nice appearance from the street will selectively plant the pear trees and i think that will just have a much better appearance i've talked i've spoken with the adjacent property owners obviously they are in favor of making sure that it looks as nice as we can make it look at this point so at this point what i'm asking for is approval to remove everything in the front of the day that the tree company is there i plan on being on site and watching every tree that they remove and if there appears to be something that looks at a substantial that we would want to keep then i'm also asking permission that we would keep that select tree or select trees at this point i'm going to bring that up because i frankly have been a little disappointed with what has been and quite honestly there just are no trees there that are salvageable if you look at the bottom of those trees they're very spend way there's nothing with substantial they've got some tops on them but they're just really has nothing there that a substantial thing a lot of them are  lying on the electric wires that are over the street there are a lot of vines and there is just nothing substantial or so we would like to start with planning the pear trees and from narrow obviously over the next year as we clear  those and as we get into the next season then we'll probably take this to the next level and plant additional plantings on that side but at this point what i'm what i'm asking for is to remove the trees that are currently there programs to address those issues on their heels here trees are flying close to the building addicted creates the ambiance that you're looking for but i think something should be done so that there just isn't a there and the only reason the night that i like pear trees is that i currently reside in bethel park in grandview farms and the whole hillside is full of pear trees and if you look at those they're substantial they have a nice definitive shape and  so i like the looks of those and not to say that moving forward as we get into the next we're going season that whenever we look at this that is all that we're going to do obviously we're going to continue to develop that each year that we take a look at it we see how things are growing and of course we want to we want to continue to grow that hillside but right now my primary goal is to clean it up there's a stream that's running in front of the property i want people to be able to see that if you clean that all out and add some character to it and from the street it should be very trees so we can at least start to get things in there if we have to wait to the next meeting the meeting after that we're out of the planning season and now we're into two thousand and twelve for this and i'm i'm anxious to get this cleaned up at this point as opposed to  just want to see something more substantial a very good look at your plane i mean your field in the area fairly decently i just don't have a perspective you know somebody strong a thirty foot diameter you know circles upward is not realistic i until they begin to grow as well but my only concern again is that i would like approval on at least this deceiving so we can begin to clean that out clean up the stream get those trees planted and then we'll take it to the next level once we see what that looks environment and the ascetics but i think the that's the first step in the second step is to grow a plant that was not a pear trees but i think you need to come back in my view with an artist's rendering or something that would reflect what gran trees plane use the nine periods with doing something else that is going to be significant uses and i understand that as well but no matter how how well we draw there some percentage it's very difficult to conceptual as you look at the retirement for some i didn't bring that plane with me but what we have is the building sitting on a flat flat test we had to do and slow down to the retention pond and then we have another have to be dealt with august one time in and what i'm what i'm still asking for the seating is approval to remove what is there to plant the pear trees and i would like to bring back to the next meeting the next phase of this plan and what we would do further to plant on that immediate slope i'm just trying to keep it just to me just because it's an eyesore it does not look nice and i'm just trying to clean up what is there before we get into this the winter season and  they do look you know i think we agree with that just the landscaping that these proposed do you feel that that's appropriate and does what that's why that's what we're require for of buffer or this type of probably against the public right of way now speaking it's the hillside that's what he's planning there and what we would require for a landscape buffer whether nonresidential use against the public right away now going above and beyond that it seems like the applicants express that they're and i agree i think on that hillside because of the size of it there need to be some dogwood there are going to be some color and i guess and you know part of this process is we've got to sell people that they want to live here so it's got to look very attractive whenever people drive by we want the residents who are living there to feel proud to tell their family and parents that they live their parents you know living in peter's township so the last thing that we want to do is to remove everything and it looks like our built field as someone referred to this evening that's that's certainly not the goal at this point and so again that the request on my be happy seeding is to remove the existing trees that are there so we can begin the planning process the planting process which would be for the pear trees and landscape plan to show us how the rest of the slope of to the building   since two thousand and eight it's a fairly involved very comprehensive project very important to the township in that from the planning commission standpoint what his plan is adopted it's going to remove the impediments to development that have been imposed by the past bands that have been imposed by the feature the corrective action plan process once we get through this that goes away and you will then be in a better involved in preparing this planets but as i indicated that say in the report itself the other two documents are a lot of the background information the modeling the engineering analysis and so forth that has gone into it so we don't tend to have you look at  portion of the township lose the audience we've talked about that others are the township councils township supervisors generations to come what's the planning commission role in the five present planning process this large directly out of the five three seven plan ranks and we would like to think that you would defined tap allocation again one of the objectives of the five three seven plan is to get out of that process to be able to self regulate tapped if you will and get out of that again you a lot of regulatory dance if you will was partially completed it was limited in scope and as mr zabel mentioned the peer group sanitary authority service area including those five municipalities it ends at the washington county line and it flows are then conveyed through a portion of south park in jefferson hills down to the city of cleared i've got some maps later on in the presentation will give you a feel for the