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up, driving off, doors slamming, music coming from the center, that would be quite noisy. And I don’t like 1 <br />that idea. 2 <br /> 3 <br />LeAnne Brown: Your property line is contiguous to the Brewer Property. Do you believe that the 4 <br />development of the property with the event center/wedding venue will diminish the value of your property as 5 <br />farm property? 6 <br /> 7 <br />Margaret Wilkman: I think it will, yes. 8 <br /> 9 <br />LeAnne Brown: You own the property with whom? 10 <br /> 11 <br />Margaret Wilkman: My sister, Alice. 12 <br /> 13 <br />LeAnne Brown: And how long have you and Alice lived on the property? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Margaret Wilkman: Since the summer of 1999. 16 <br /> 17 <br />LeAnne Brown: I don’t have any other questions of Ms. Wilkman. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Andy Petesch: No questions. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Karen Barrows: Does the Board have any questions? Thank you. 22 <br /> 23 <br />LeAnne Brown: I’ll ask Alice Wilkman to come up please. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Michael Harvey swore in Alice Wilkman. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Michael Harvey: State your name and verify that you have been sworn. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Alice Wilkman: My name is Alice Wilkman, I live at 7310 Morrow Mill Road and I have been sworn. 30 <br /> 31 <br />LeAnne Brown: Ms. Wilkman, so that we can move on to the next part of the hearing I don’t want belabor 32 <br />the damages but you heard your sister testify about the special damages that she believes that she will 33 <br />suffer as a property owner and the animals will suffer. Do you believe you’ll suffer the same kinds of 34 <br />damages that she identified? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Alice Wilkman: Yes and in fact because of the possibility that this large number of people would be 37 <br />congregating I put up adding ducks to our property. Ducks are my thing. Chickens are my sister’s thing so 38 <br />it’s really already damaged me in that respect and my ducks would be behind the shed so theoretically 39 <br />closer to where the party barn would be. In addition to that the ducks don’t go into their pen at night, they’re 40 <br />sort of like horses and they like to be in and out and chatter all night long. So lots of lights, lots of noise and 41 <br />worst of all people coming down to torment them. 42 <br /> 43 <br />LeAnne Brown: You think the ducks would be an attractive… 44 <br /> 45 <br />Alice Wilkman: Attractive, as is my worry about the pond. The pond is also an attractive… That is the water 46 <br />point for our neighborhood and I would hate to have to modify that plan because our fire department is 47 <br />20