Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
that the Brewers’ and SPG needed to get, initially in reviewing this proposal, a SUP in order to operate a 1 <br />special event center. Is that Correct? 2 <br /> 3 <br />Michael Harvey: That is a correct statement. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Andy Petesch: And in what form did you provide that determination? How’d you communicate that to Ms. 6 <br />Brewer? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Michael Harvey: Ms. Brewer and the staff had had several different meetings discussing the concepts and it 9 <br />was my determination of what I told her at that point in time based on the information I had available to that 10 <br />what she was proposing was a regulated retreat center requiring the issuance of a Class B SUP in order to 11 <br />develop this on the property. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Andy Petesch: And so you verbally communicated that information to her? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Andy Petesch: And was there ever a written determination that was sent to her? 18 <br /> 19 <br />Michael Harvey: No, sir. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Andy Petesch: Ok thank you. No further questions. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Barry Katz: Mr. Harvey, can you just say again what you thought they were proposing to do? 24 <br /> 25 <br />Michael Harvey: As testified to at your last meeting Ms. Brewer had actually come to talk to staff on a 26 <br />couple different occasions prior to the submittal of a Class B SUP on her desire to open a retreat center, a 27 <br />wedding venue specifically. At that point in time we told her the event center she was describing to us, i.e. 28 <br />staff, would require the issuance of a Class B SUP as defined within our UDO. 29 <br /> 30 <br />Barry Katz: And that’s why we went through this process? 31 <br /> 32 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes, sir. And as I testified not only at the aforementioned hearing but at your last Board 33 <br />of Adjustment meeting the determination that Ms. Brewer had to go through this process, originally, for this 34 <br />parcel of property was that at the time there was no ag activity on same and that this would be, in fact, the 35 <br />principal use if established. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Barry Katz: Right. That was our impression. So I wanted to just ask you about your apiary. You have 3 38 <br />beehives on the property. And do you plan on actually extracting the honey on the premises? 39 <br /> 40 <br />Chris and Kara Brewer: Yes. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Barry Katz: And does anyone have any notion about how many beehives one would need in order to make 43 <br />a viable business out of processing of honey? 44 <br /> 45 <br />Chris Brewer: Well we just started out and we have 2 beehives at our house and then we have 3 at the 46 <br />property now so we’re about a year and a half into beehives. So I wouldn’t consider ourselves an expert but 47 <br />83