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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 100 of 156 interesting concepts, there’s a couple of ponds and lakes there and you’ve got numerous springs, 1 and as I testified last time my initial thought was a small reservoir there but because of the impact 2 fees it was $5,000,000 in fees, I couldn’t afford the development. So we went to something along 3 these lines. Track label number one is the one adjacent to the cell tower. 4 5 John Price: Is that the 40-acre home site? 6 7 Owen Gwen: Yeah. It’s right next to it. You’d be able to throw a hard boiled egg right into the pole 8 from my property there. So all of these… 9 10 Samantha Cabe: That’s Dove Field Property? 11 12 Owen Gwen: Dove Field LLC. All of this is impacted and it flies in the face as far as I’m concerned 13 of my concept of trying to keep the rural buffer intact and keep the idea being in a rural zone. 14 Now, that’s the way I see it. And as far as value we talked about there are three properties across 15 the street, Mount Carmel Church Road, there are at least three that I know of for a fact because I 16 sold one of them as a real estate agent that are over a million dollars in value. These are highly 17 sensitive. It’s a highly sensitive neighborhood. It has a certain feature. The pond on the lake in 18 that little L that you can see, that’s the Y Camp, there are children playing there all summer, it’s 19 just a nice neighborhood thing going on and we want to keep it that way. I certainly don’t have to 20 do that. If I see cell towers going up and of course once one’s approved you see them in 21 clusters… to me, it just changes the flavor of something that’s been in the family for over 50-22 years. 23 24 John Price: What does yellow represent? 25 26 Owen Gwen: That’s the wildlife corridor. Proposed wildlife corridor. 27 28 John Price: And the green? The blue? 29 30 Owen Gwen: On the bottom, that is… the idea there would be to be open space. 31 32 John Price: Ok. 33 34 Owen Gwen: Part of the… we have a lot of deer in the area, a lot of wildlife. That’s the facts the 35 way they stand so I know we want to move this along, I appreciate everybody’s contribution and 36 help here but you know there’s a group here that’s getting money, they want to rent it, they’re 37 being paid as the attorney’s, the whole thing, the only guy in opposition that comes out and writes 38 the check is me, and I’ll continue to do it because it means a lot to me and I don’t think it’s right. 39 We had this hearing before when they tried to put a cell tower on the other side. It cost me a lot of 40 money. But the County Board here disallowed it, for the same reason. It’s an impact. It destroys 41 the view shed. It’s, as far as I’m concerned, it’s visual pollution. Any other questions? 42 43 Samantha Cabe: I have a quick question. They have the right to cross-examine, but what is that 44 neighborhood that you can see on that map that is kind of in the crook of your property? 45 46 Owen Gwen: That’s Nature Trail. It’s been there forever. It’s a mobile home area. 47 48 Samantha Cabe: That whole big area right there is all mobile homes? All that white that’s… 49 50 102