Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 41 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Kara Brewer: No, not yet. We won’t need the equipment for several more years. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Barry Katz: Yeah but you have to amortize that in there too. I just don’t know if these numbers mean 4 <br />anything. I mean just based on the cut flowers since there’s no labor in there. I just have no idea what you 5 <br />mean by this. 6 <br /> 7 <br />Matt Hughes: I have a few questions. Not relating to your business plan per se and your numbers. But 8 <br />section 1,2,3, etcetera list what you plan to do on your farm. Is that in order? So do you plan being on 9 <br />mostly for chestnuts, and then flowers, and then honey production and then event stuff. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Kara Brewer: That’s correct. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Matt Hughes: Ok. And so how do you think as maybe a percentage of your farms operation would be 14 <br />hosting events and having others on your property? Like field trips and things like that? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Kara Brewer: Sure. So I did write that out. That would be section 4. Page 6. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Andy Petesch: This is still under tab 16, page 6. 19 <br /> 20 <br />Kara Brewer: So for example, right now for 2017 we’re looking at 15 Saturday farm weddings and 22 for 21 <br />2018. And then for floral workshops for 2017 I’m just doing the grouping in the fall so we’ll have three 22 <br />different workshops and we’ll do three different dates for those. I’m going to cap it at about 30-40 people 23 <br />per workshop and then for the educational programs we are opening that up to elementary aged kids. And 24 <br />so I’m hoping in 2017 to have roughly 5-6 per months at certain times of the year. But again, we’re working 25 <br />all that out. This is just planning. But that’s what I would like to do. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Matt Hughes: And the comments we have from the folks that are appealing the decision of staff. Most of the 28 <br />comments that I heard involved nighttime activities, which I would assume, would be weddings. So in 2017 29 <br />you’re saying you’re projecting 15 just based on market analysis just based of 22 for the next year? Do you 30 <br />plan on capping the number of weddings that you have? 31 <br /> 32 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes, and as a matter of a fact, we can do only so many weddings on a Saturday. So we could 33 <br />only at most have 4-5 weddings on a Saturday per month for wedding season, which runs from May to 34 <br />October, roughly. Now there are occasions when there might be a Friday or a Sunday wedding, that’s 35 <br />typically much less and again I would cap it and maybe 5 or 6 times a year. And that’s primarily just the 36 <br />holidays. 37 <br /> 38 <br />Matt Hughes: So you’re anticipating that most of the weddings would occur during a particular time of year. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes, there is a very specific wedding season. It runs from May to October. And even for me 41 <br />that presents difficulty because a popular time for weddings is September and October and that’s when 42 <br />we’re busy with the chestnut harvesting. So I might not be able to do as many in September and October, 43 <br />which would leave mainly summer, and maybe a few early spring. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Matt Hughes: I think that’s all I have. 46 <br /> 47