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the Village Townhome project. However, the middle 21 units would have 2 bedrooms on the second level. � J 3 The target age would be from 30 to 70 , with buyers without children 4 being the major market, Mr. Hoium indicated. 5 In discussing the poor soil conditions of the parcel with Commissioners 6 Madden and London, the Evergreen President reported receiving a firm 7 bid of $327 , 000 from an excavating company for the removal of 35, 000 8 cubic yards of soil and bringing in 51,000 cubic yards of subsoil for 9 compacting to make it suitable for townhome construction. Mr. Hoium 10 . reported the excavators had based their bid on four soil borings by 11 Twin City Testing, agreeing with Commissioner Madden that four was not 12 a large number for a parcel that size, but that it was a preliminary 13 test only. Mr. Hoium said his firm would only be interested in 14 changing the zoning for this parcel for this particular project. He 15 pointed to the. proposed positioning of the eight buildings shown on the 16 chart erected in the hearing room, saying the configurations could vary 17 and 'the units could, be developed for between one and four bedrooms 18 depending on how the interiors are done. 19 Mr. Hill .indicated that although it had not been shown on the plans, 20 Evergreen intended to do some berming and/or planting of trees and 04 shrubbery to minimize the impact of the railroad tracks. He said there are no more than four trains, a day through the area and Evergreen had not yet negotiated an agreement with the railroad company to provide the proposed buffer on theirright-of-way. FHA funding 25 would require all units to be at- least 100 feet away from the tracks. 26 The perimeter road would also run between the buildings and tracks. 27 Because the tracks would be higher than the project grade, it would 28 probably require more plantings than berming to adequately screen the 29 project. Commissioner London said he perceived it would be in the 30 interest of the development company to get permission from the railroad 31 company to use a good deal of the soils from the site for berming 32 rather than to pay the contractor for hauling it away. 33 Soil 34 Mr. Hoium told Commissioner Brownell he perceived the soil corrections .35 on this parcel would make it almost impossible to build more than 10 36 single family homes on the site, which would still require extensive 37 soil corrections. The Commissioner estimated that in accordance with 38 the bid which had been made, that would amount to $32 ,000 in soil 39 corrections per house. 40 The Evergreen President told one of the 20 residents present that the 41 most favorable soil boring on the site had shown bad soils to an eight 42 foot depth. All the really bad soils appear to be in the middle of 43 the site where the pond was going to be built and are bad to a depth of 28 feet. The area to the south was also quite bad, with all fill and no trees. All fill, which had been brought in but never compacted, 10