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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 16 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Michael Harvey: He’s a reporter. 2 <br /> 3 <br />James Bryan: Forgive me; I forget what the public charge says. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Barry Katz: Well no, it says all electronic devices such as and it mentions a few but it doesn’t mention what 6 <br />he’s doing. I just didn’t know if this was a legitimate activity or now. 7 <br /> 8 <br />James Bryan: Yeah so it’s a little confusing. The public charge is our request for our rules but the public 9 <br />has a right to be here and also a right to record. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Barry Katz: Ok. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Karen Barrows: Thank you. 14 <br /> 15 <br />LeAnne Brown: I’d like to ask Margaret Wilkman to come up. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Michael Harvey swore in Margaret Wilkman. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Michael Harvey: Please state your name and address for the record and that you have been sworn. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Margaret Wilkman: My name is Margaret Wilkman, I live at 7310 Morrow Mill Road and I have been sworn. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Margaret Wilkman located and explained her property on the map for the Board . 24 <br /> 25 <br />LeAnne Brown reviewed pictures of Margaret Wilkman’s property in regards to the Brewers’ property. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Margaret Wilkman: From the property corner to the center drive it’s about 20-feet. 28 <br /> 29 <br />LeAnne Brown: And Ms. Carswell had also identified that it was approximately 70-yards to your chicken 30 <br />shed from what is now the top of the barn. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Margaret Wilkman: That’s correct. 33 <br /> 34 <br />LeAnne Brown: What do you keep in your chicken shed? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Margaret Wilkman: Chickens. Also a lawn mower and equipment for trimming along the fence line and 37 <br />around the property. 38 <br /> 39 <br />LeAnne Brown: And do you have concerns that there are special damages that you will suffer as a result of 40 <br />the development of the property? 41 <br /> 42 <br />Margaret Wilkman: I do. One of the things very early on when they were beginning their ground work for 43 <br />this, one day we looked and there was a gentleman down by the chicken coop talking on a phone, and he 44 <br />was there for two hours. He walked in through the gate, he never said hello or anything but he was there for 45 <br />two hours. We did not let our livestock guardian dog out to suggest he move on but he was there a long 46 <br />time. I have no idea who he belonged to but one of my concerns is that we’re going to have people who 47 <br />trespass and think that they are entitled to come onto our property whenever. The second concern I have is 48 <br />that we have a long kind of border with the Brewer property and we have had electrical fencing up there to 49