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