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Michael Fox: I don't have any further questions. <br /> David Rooks: Mrs. Davis, the assumption Mr. Fox says that you made, is that an assumption <br /> based on your years of experience and knowledge of appraising in Orange County, North <br /> Carolina. <br /> Pam Davis: Yes. <br /> David Rooks: That's all I have. <br /> Michael Harvey: Mr. Chairman, I apologize for interrupting, but I feel it necessary that I correct <br /> some statements that have been made here this evening in error. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck: Please do so. <br /> Michael Harvey: The first is that the White Cross solar facility that keeps being referenced is <br /> actually required to have a buffer. And as I reported to the Board a week and a half ago, based <br /> on a question asked by Chairman Jacobs, they have been served with a notice of deficiency of <br /> the required buffer, which is actually supposed to be 70 feet, to the same standard has not been <br /> installed properly. They have not received final approval from the department, and they are <br /> required to install more landscaping. <br /> Mr. Nutter's facility on Dairyland Road was installed prior to there being any County <br /> regulations with respect to the development of a solar facility and was approved as part of not <br /> only his existing farm operation —which as you all know, we do not regulate farm activities — but <br /> was also approved as part of a special use permit, previously issued by the department— <br /> excuse me, by the board of adjustment to allow the operation of a camp retreat center on the <br /> property, offering insight into how agricultural operations can not only be run, but adaptive re- <br /> use for agricultural properties. And in that context, the solar panels were allowed to be erected. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck: Thank you. <br /> David Rooks: Mr. Chairman, at this point we call Mr. Bill Stafford. I'm going to ask - Mr. <br /> Stafford is also an appraiser, and I'm going to ask him to briefly summarize his education, <br /> training and experience in appraising. <br /> Pete Hallenbeck: Alright, Mr. Stafford, have you been sworn? <br /> Bill Stafford: Good evening. I have been sworn in. My name is William C. Stafford. Again, I <br /> do not live in this area. I have lived in this area, but I live in New Bern, North Carolina. I am a <br /> licensed general appraiser in the state of North Carolina and have been licensed since the <br /> board was founded in 1991. I have been an appraiser for 37 years. I have done all sorts of <br /> commercial, as well as some residential jobs in my earlier years. For the past essential six years <br /> I have only done commercial work. And during this six year period, the bulk of my practice is in <br /> two forms. One of those forms is that I am a professional review appraiser. I work for a <br /> company out of Georgia, have worked for as many as two out of Georgia, and I do commercial <br /> review work all over the United States. I do mainly— I am licensed in North Carolina, as well as <br /> Tennessee and Georgia, and during this process of commercial review I have done as— <br /> typically if you take out 48, 52 weeks a year, and you've got 2 weeks of holidays and 2 weeks of <br /> vacation otherwise - I do somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 subdivision analysis reviews a <br /> week. So you can do the math on that, and you're going to get just under a hundred a year. So <br />