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42 <br /> 1 I also have a letter here from a person. I was having email exchanges with a gentleman <br /> 2 who was interested in buying my house. This started before I knew about the solar field <br /> 3 proposal, and it comes from Dr. Christopher Carr, who is a professor at Arizona State University <br /> 4 and is very interested in moving to Chapel Hill —wanted to move to Falls of New Hope. He <br /> 5 emailed several people in the neighborhood —wanted to know about our houses. He gave us <br /> 6 certain things that he needed. I emailed him back, and literally 6 hours after I emailed him back <br /> 7 was when the letter came in announcing. So the next day I said, Hey look, in the interest of full <br /> 8 disclosure, there is a solar farm that might be going in behind us. It is not written in stone at this <br /> 9 point in time, but it might go in behind us. And that was pretty much the end of our discussion <br /> 10 when he found out how large it was going to be. He submitted a letter actually, to the Orange <br /> 11 County planning department, not because I asked him to do this by the way. But, he seemed to <br /> 12 be concerned enough because that's the neighborhood he wants to move in, whether it's my <br /> 13 house or someone else's house. And I can read this for you if you would like, or I can skip to <br /> 14 this second paragraph: "To be direct, I will withdraw my efforts to purchase either of the two <br /> 15 homes or any other in Falls of New Hope Neighborhood if Orange County permits any part of <br /> 16 the meadow to be converted into a solar panel farm." <br /> 17 <br /> 18 My wife and I are very much in favor of green energy. We really are, but we don't think <br /> 19 that you need to have windmill turbines right off of— right off of Wrightsville Beach. We don't <br /> 20 think that you need to have biodiesel fuel installations next to daycare centers and we don't <br /> 21 think that this solar installation needs to go in Falls of the New Hope. Thank you. <br /> 22 <br /> 23 David Rooks: Any cross examination? <br /> 24 <br /> 25 Michael Fox: I don't have any questions for this witness, but I would object to the hearsay <br /> 26 testimony about the letter. As the Board knows in these types of hearings, you are only allowed <br /> 27 to consider sworn testimony under oath, and obviously the submission of a letter from someone <br /> 28 who wasn't here is hearsay and should be stricken. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 David Rooks: And I would point out, it's hearsay only when it is asserted for the fact of the <br /> 31 matter, not when it'd being offered just to prove that it was stated. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 Michael Fox: Well I think you are offering it to prove that— <br /> 34 <br /> 35 David Rooks: That it was stated. <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Michael Fox: We can argue about that one later. <br /> 38 <br /> 39 David Rooks: And at this point we call Mr. Daniel Mattingly. <br /> 40 <br /> 41 Daniel Mattingly: My name is Daniel Mattingly, and I have been sworn in. And, the clerk is in <br /> 42 the process of distributing copies of my statement that includes four photographs that I'll be <br /> 43 referring to. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Again, good evening, I am Daniel Mattingly. My wife, Mary Sue Cherney and I live at <br /> 46 5420 Cascade Drive, which is a contiguous property to the proposed solar array and public <br /> 47 utility station. I would like to speak to two concerns that we have about the project. One is in — <br /> 48 I'm going to need to address it in some detail and it's a little technical, and so that's why I <br /> 49 wanted you to have copies. There are about 9—or 7 points, and I'll get to that in just a second. <br /> 50 <br />