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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 14 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />little bit of that now. I think that’s going to get worse. There’s probably going to be lots of cars parked on the 1 <br />side on the road, parked in front of our house, and if we have a lot of traffic it might be hard for us to get in 2 <br />and out of the driveway. The noise from the music, from the chatter of people outside, I think we’ll be able 3 <br />to hear very clearly and of course all those vehicles going in and out of the driveway will certainly be noisy. 4 <br /> 5 <br />LeAnne Brown: Mr. Harvey, can you go back to Picture 13? So you’re worried about cars parking? You’re 6 <br />worried that people will park along the shoulder so they don’t end up going down the drive? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Doris Ray: Yes, I think that could happen and they would be parked across the road but in front of our 9 <br />house and stacking the cars I think would be something that could happen so people can get out when they 10 <br />need to get out or with overflow of traffic. 11 <br /> 12 <br />LeAnne Brown: So if you had an event starting at a time your concern would be that cars waiting to get in 13 <br />there coming in both directions would in effect keep you from getting in and out of your driveway? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Doris Ray: Exactly, yes. 16 <br /> 17 <br />LeAnne Brown: Or emergency vehicles getting into your house if somebody needed to be there? And when 18 <br />you talk about stacking that’s what you mean? 19 <br /> 20 <br />Doris Ray: Yes. 21 <br /> 22 <br />LeAnne Brown: Are there other ways you believe that you will suffer special damages as a result? 23 <br /> 24 <br />Doris Ray: Well I think it’s taking our privacy away from us. I think that we’ve lived here 54 years but it’s a 25 <br />quiet neighborhood. We’ve never had that much traffic, we don’t know exactly what to expect but we sit on 26 <br />our porch a lot in the spring and fall and I Just don’t think we’ll be able to enjoy the peace and quiet that 27 <br />we’ve had. 28 <br /> 29 <br />LeAnne Brown: Does the development of the property in this way impact the value of your property, at least 30 <br />to you from your perspective? 31 <br /> 32 <br />Doris Ray: Well I certainly think it will. I think that not a lot of people would want to be that close to an event 33 <br />center such as this and I’m not even sure that our children would even want to be there if we wanted to 34 <br />leave it to them. So I just think it would definitely decrease our value. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Thomas Ray: If anything, the value of the property… I don’t intend to sell but my kids or grand kids, I’m not 37 <br />sure they’d even want to come out there with the noise and stuff coming from it. 38 <br /> 39 <br />LeAnne Brown: Am I correct that the two of you own this piece of property together? 40 <br /> 41 <br />Thomas Ray: Yes. 42 <br /> 43 <br />LeAnne Brown: I have no other questions of the Rays’. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Andy Petesch: I just have one question Mr. and Mrs. Ray. Again, I’m Andy Petesch, attorney for the 46 <br />Brewers’. Did you request at some time around the SUP process for the driveway to be moved further away 47 <br />from your driveway from what was originally planned? 48 <br /> 49