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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 57 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />LeAnne Brown: Would you agree that what you identify as the spring wedding season would also be the 1 <br />planting season for flowers. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Kara Brewer: That is correct. 4 <br /> 5 <br />LeAnne Brown: Ms. Brewer, how does a wedding and event center, which would include charity and 6 <br />educational events. Would you tell me how that is incidental to the farming operation? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Kara Brewer: Absolutely. So what we’re doing specifically with the weddings is we are offering farm tours. 9 <br />It’s what attracts people to want to book, is the farm itself. So we offer farm tours, we offer honey tastings; 10 <br />we offer the floral workshops. That is what they want. That’s why they want to come out to the farm. So 11 <br />yes, it’s a part of that. 12 <br /> 13 <br />LeAnne Brown: So these activities that you are planning you are planning as being incidental to the 14 <br />weddings that you plan to hold? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Kara Brewer: No. The farming is the primary. Obviously. The farming is the primary activity. The wedding 17 <br />and agritourism is incidental to that. 18 <br /> 19 <br />LeAnne Brown: I see. So it’s your testimony that you intend this to be primarily a farm? 20 <br /> 21 <br />Kara Brewer: Yeah. 22 <br /> 23 <br />LeAnne Brown: With a mere 22-30 weddings. And how many special events to you plan to have? 24 <br /> 25 <br />Kara Brewer: Well it depends on what you mean by special events. Workshops, educational events. As far 26 <br />as special events I would like to do some charity events if possible. 27 <br /> 28 <br />LeAnne Brown: How many would you do a year? 29 <br /> 30 <br />Kara Brewer: I don’t know. Maybe three or four. It just depends on again what we have time for and what 31 <br />we can do. 32 <br /> 33 <br />LeAnne Brown: There’s no limit on how many you can do as you understand your building permit, is that 34 <br />correct? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Kara Brewer: That’s correct. 37 <br /> 38 <br />LeAnne Brown: You could have an event every day. Is that correct? 39 <br /> 40 <br />Kara Brewer: That’s correct. 41 <br /> 42 <br />LeAnne Brown: I’ve got no further questions for this witness. 43 <br /> 44 <br />Andy Petesch: I just have a few follow up questions. Ms. Brown asked you about the language in your 45 <br />website, is that marketing language? 46 <br /> 47 <br />Kara Brewer: It is. 48 <br /> 49