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DRAFT <br /> 53 <br /> 1 <br />Susan Halkiotis: Well if I knew what the motion should be I would, you know, how it should be 2 <br />worded and what it should be included, what should be included in the motion I would make it. 3 <br /> 4 <br />James Bryan: So what was… 5 <br /> 6 <br />Karen Barrows: I thought we were supposed to decide whether Michael had erred in his decision. 7 <br /> 8 <br />James Bryan: Where is Michael’s? 9 <br /> 10 <br />Susan Halkiotis: Well I. You know, I’ve got one more thing to say about that. You know I, because 11 <br />we have looked at that decision and based on Michael Harvey’s handling of it after our directive to 12 <br />look at the March 2016 application and I just don’t know how I lost this particular part of what we 13 <br />did but I don’t remember restricting our directive to him to the March 2016 application. I mean, just 14 <br />for the record. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Karen Barrows: Mm-Hmm. 17 <br /> 18 <br />James Bryan: And the Board’s not bound by that, but. So the only thing’s that can be appealed are 19 <br />final and binding determinations. Michael made three here. And I think you can look at his first one; 20 <br />is the property a bona fide farm? And he says that it is. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Susan Halkiotis: See; let me clarify what I just said. 23 <br /> 24 <br />James Bryan: Ok. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Susan Halkiotis: I understand that that’s the directive that was heard, but I’m, that’s certainly not 27 <br />what I intended. I mean I understand, but what he did, these are his findings based on the 28 <br />paperwork he’s got in his hand from March 2016 and I’m not arguing with that but that certainly 29 <br />wasn’t my intent, and I don’t know whether it was everybody else’s intent or not. So there may be 30 <br />other people that have the, have a different… 31 <br /> 32 <br />Karen Barrows: So James, you want us to just go through the abstract and address each one of 33 <br />Michael’s? 34 <br /> 35 <br />James Bryan: Well I think you can start by affirming his decision that it is a farm. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Karen Barrows: I think we can agree. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Barry Katz: Well yes. It’s a farm. 40 <br /> 41 <br />Karen Barrows: It’s a farm. 42 <br /> 43 <br />James Bryan: And then the second one; is the structure being developed on the property being 44 <br />used for bona fide farm purposes? I think you could modify that and say if you were to use Matt’s 45 <br />suggestion that there are bona fide farm purposes of drawing chestnuts and then use Barry’s, I 46 <br />believe, suggestion that, but weddings as described by the property owner would be non-farm use. 47