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1 <br />Karen Barrows: Questioning actions of the staff. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Michael Harvey: With respect to? 4 <br /> 5 <br />Karen Barrows: Is there a process within the department to deal with this? 6 <br /> 7 <br />Michael Harvey: Well, to be blunt, the decision was made in consultation with other staff and the Attorney’s 8 <br />office in this particular instance we determined we had no zoning review authority over the project as 9 <br />submitted. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Karen Barrows: I guess what I’m asking is there nothing internally? 12 <br /> 13 <br />Michael Harvey: This was discussed amongst the staff. That discussion included the County Attorney’s 14 <br />Office and our reaction to this permit is articulated in the email. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Karen Barrows: Are there questions from the Board members? 17 <br /> 18 <br />Barry Katz: I have a question for you, sir. From the November 9th 2015 Minutes, was there a designation 19 <br />that that property was a farm at that point or were the applications done subsequently? 20 <br /> 21 <br />Michael Harvey: There was a farm number that existed on the property. As I testified at that November 22 <br />hearing, and it’s detailed in our abstract, we still made the determination and informed Ms. Brewer she had 23 <br />to go through this process because we didn’t see any ag activity on the property. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Barry Katz: Right. Ok. And the barn. Where’s the barn? Where does it come from? 26 <br /> 27 <br />Kara Brewer: It was an old barn built in the 1860’s from upstate New York. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Barry Katz: That you’re transferring down here? 30 <br /> 31 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Karen Barrows: Any other questions from staff for lawyers? 34 <br /> 35 <br />Matt Hughes: So when you had said that you had determined you had no zoning authority. Did that mean 36 <br />looking into the application and comparing it to the SUP that Ms. Brown has articulated that, in her opinion, 37 <br />the two applications are fairly identical? 38 <br /> 39 <br />Michael Harvey: The only way I’m going to answer that question is looking at the (inaudible) of what was 40 <br />submitted in March and consultation with staff members, that also included the Attorney’s Office. The 41 <br />decision we made is articulated in the email. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Karen Barrows: Anything else? If there is nothing we can close the public hearing and deliberate. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Barry Katz: May I ask our attorney, the issue of Estoppel. It’s still somewhat confusing. Do we have 46 <br />standing to even consider that? If we are the representatives of the County Commissioners then I suppose 47 <br />we do. 48 <br />103