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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 99 of 156 <br /> <br />Samantha Cabe: Alright, thank you sir. 1 <br /> 2 <br />John Price: I have two other witnesses. If I might, I’d like to put on Mr. Owen Gwen again, very 3 <br />briefly, just to identify one map. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Samantha Cabe: Ok, and I will, for the record, note that there were some neighbors at the last 6 <br />hearing who asked if it would be possible if you would be willing to yield your time to let them 7 <br />speak and be heard because they waited the entire time last time and didn’t get a chance to 8 <br />speak. So if you would just be cognizant of the fact you have other people here wanting to talk. 9 <br /> 10 <br />John Price: I am very aware of that. We definitely want them to be able to voice their opinion. 11 <br /> 12 <br />Samantha Cabe: We’re still under the same standing rule that we have to adjourn at 10:00, so 13 <br />please keep that in mind. It’s 7:48. 14 <br /> 15 <br />John Price: Yes. Mr. Gwen, you testified previously you own property near the tower? 16 <br /> 17 <br />Owen Gwen: Yes. 18 <br /> 19 <br />John Price: Ok. On the Dove Field master plan power point, if you could put that up? Would this 20 <br />be Opposition 8? 21 <br /> 22 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes sir. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Elaina Cheek: Sir, can you state your name? 25 <br /> 26 <br />Owen Gwen: Owen Gwen. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Elaina Cheek: Owen Gwen? 29 <br /> 30 <br />Owen Gwen: Mm-Hmm. That is correct. 31 <br /> 32 <br />John Price: Mr. Gwen, what is showing on the screen I have in front of you has been marked as 33 <br />Opposition number 7. Are you familiar with this? 34 <br /> 35 <br />Owen Gwen: Yes. 36 <br /> 37 <br />John Price: Would you describe briefly what it is? 38 <br /> 39 <br />Owen Gwen: There is a nationally known planner Randall Arndt who has written several books on 40 <br />low impacts and low-density housing developments. And so being in the rural buffer and being 41 <br />part of what’s going on in trying to keep the community in the rural setting we went out, he went 42 <br />out and to look at the land and figure out a way lightly find some home sites that were roughly the 43 <br />smallest one being 10-acre track up to about a hundred acre track to try to keep the density down. 44 <br />We found these locations. 45 <br /> 46 <br />John Price: Is this the master plan that he prepared? 47 <br /> 48 <br />Owen Gwen: Yes. He prepared this master plan and it shows in the middle of the Cub Creek line 49 <br />running through the center of my property and that’s a proposed wildlife corridor and some other 50 <br />101