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Approved 12/12/16 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 18 of 113 Margaret Wilkman: Since the summer of 1999. 1 2 LeAnne Brown: I don’t have any other questions of Ms. Wilkman. 3 4 Andy Petesch: No questions. 5 6 Karen Barrows: Does the Board have any questions? Thank you. 7 8 LeAnne Brown: I’ll ask Alice Wilkman to come up please. 9 10 Michael Harvey swore in Alice Wilkman. 11 12 Michael Harvey: State your name and verify that you have been sworn. 13 14 Alice Wilkman: My name is Alice Wilkman, I live at 7310 Morrow Mill Road and I have been sworn. 15 16 LeAnne Brown: Ms. Wilkman, so that we can move on to the next part of the hearing I don’t want belabor 17 the damages but you heard your sister testify about the special damages that she believes that she will 18 suffer as a property owner and the animals will suffer. Do you believe you’ll suffer the same kinds of 19 damages that she identified? 20 21 Alice Wilkman: Yes and in fact because of the possibility that this large number of people would be 22 congregating I put up adding ducks to our property. Ducks are my thing. Chickens are my sister’s thing so 23 it’s really already damaged me in that respect and my ducks would be behind the shed so theoretically 24 closer to where the party barn would be. In addition to that the ducks don’t go into their pen at night, they’re 25 sort of like horses and they like to be in and out and chatter all night long. So lots of lights, lots of noise and 26 worst of all people coming down to torment them. 27 28 LeAnne Brown: You think the ducks would be an attractive… 29 30 Alice Wilkman: Attractive, as is my worry about the pond. The pond is also an attractive… That is the water 31 point for our neighborhood and I would hate to have to modify that plan because our fire department is 32 counting on that but really it is a concern. Given where the driveway is the pond, I think, is going to be 33 visible and attractive to people that want to get out and away from the heat. 34 35 LeAnne Brown: And just for the record a water point is when a property owner allows a fire department to 36 put in a stand pipe to allow them to fill pump trucks to fight fires in a neighborhood. 37 38 Alice Wilkman: That’s correct. 39 40 LeAnne Brown: I have no other questions of Ms. Wilkman. 41 42 Barry Katz: I have a question. Just regarding… You have a pond over there right? And that’s what we’re 43 talking about? I see it. So you’re concern is that people would come onto your property and perhaps… 44 45 Alice Wilkman: Fall in and drown. 46 47 Barry Katz: And you would be exposed to some liability. 48 49