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Erin White: Well to your last question certainly not. Orange County has a demonstrated interest in 1 <br />preserving farmland and building viability in existing farm operations and values alongside the addition of 2 <br />new farmers and new operations to help build the agricultural sector. 3 <br /> 4 <br />LeAnne Brown: So if the property owned by SPG is surrounded by properties that are also farm properties 5 <br />that meet their criteria of the statute to be classified as a farm would you not agree that Orange County has 6 <br />an interest in preserving the lifestyle of all of those individuals as well? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Erin White: I don't know how the documents I reviewed to speak to the lifestyle of any particular farmers or 9 <br />property owners. It speaks to economic activities. It speaks to agricultural activities. But to the question 10 <br />specifically of lifestyle I'm not sure how to answer that based on what I reviewed. 11 <br /> 12 <br />LeAnne Brown: Well let's take it apart. With the documents you read speaking to the importance of 13 <br />preserving the other farms in the area, in the general vicinity of the property owned buy SPG, are those 14 <br />farms as important as what you refer it to be to the farm by SPG under Orange County's planning 15 <br />documents? 16 <br /> 17 <br />Erin White: So the planning documents do not speak to any of these properties specifically to your first 18 <br />question. And under the planning documents none of the properties would have a greater importance than 19 <br />any of the others. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Leann Brown: Nor a lesser importance? 22 <br />Erin White: Correct. 23 <br /> 24 <br />LeAnne Brown: I have no further questions. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Andy: Thank you that concludes our presentation of evidence. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Karen Barrows: So are we up to our closing arguments? 29 <br /> 30 <br />LeAnne Brown: I have just a tiny bit of rebuttal evidence, and I mean very tiny, based on a document that 31 <br />was marked tonight I would like to. And I didn't plan to introduced this but I'm going to. Let me show this to 32 <br />you Andy so that you have it. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Andy Petesch: Is this the only copy? 35 <br /> 36 <br />LeAnne Brown: It's the only copy I've got. You're now raising an issue that I need to use that for that I 37 <br />hadn't really planned on. Mr. Harvey I would like to call you back for the sole purpose of showing you this 38 <br />document and that document may be in the record and just to be sure I have marked it as exhibit 15. Do 39 <br />you recognize that document? 40 <br /> 41 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes ma'am. 42 <br /> 43 <br />LeAnne Brown: What is that? 44 <br /> 45 <br />Michael Harvey: This is a copy of the letter that you sent to myself and the County Attorney's Office on the 46 <br />19th of January concerning the Southeast Property Group off Morrow Mill Road. 47 <br /> 48 <br />87