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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 62 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />Karen Barrows: Are we ready for final arguments? 1 <br /> 2 <br />Andy Petesch: I do have one more witness. I will move through it as quickly as possible. 3 <br /> 4 <br />Karen Barrows: Ok. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Andy Petesch: I would like for Ms. Brewer before I let her go, if she would just identify two photographs 7 <br />here under tab 19. Do you know what these photographs are? Would you describe that for the Board ? 8 <br /> 9 <br />Kara Brewer: The first one is our chestnut orchard and the second one is the beehives. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Andy Petesch: Ok. I’d like to submit those photographs to be bona fide farm documentation under tab 17, 12 <br />farm plan summary and the farm plan illustration under tab 16 into evidence on behalf of the Brewers’. 13 <br /> 14 <br />LeAnne Brown: Tabs 15,16,17 and what? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Andy Petesch: I’m sorry. 15,16,17, and 19. Next, I would like to ask Mr. White, if he could be sworn in? 17 <br /> 18 <br />Karen Barrows swore in Erin White. 19 <br /> 20 <br />Erin White: Erin White. I live in Raleigh, North Carolina. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Karen Barrows: Thank you Erin. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Andy Petesch: Mr. White, could you tell the Board what your education background is? 25 <br /> 26 <br />Erin White: Sure, in 1995 I received a Bachelor of Arts from Inaudible college, in biology and 27 <br />environmental studies and in 2011 I received a masters in architecture from NC State. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Andy Petesch: And could you tell the Board about your work employment history? 30 <br /> 31 <br />Erin White: Sure. So currently I’m the principal and founder of a design and consulting firm based in 32 <br />Raleigh that’s focused on healthy food systems. It was started in 2013 as I found myself doing more 33 <br />freelance design work on food system projects such as school systems, district farms, healthy corner store 34 <br />projects, things like that. This would come out of my architectural thesis work, which focused on food 35 <br />systems and community revitalization tools. So looking at ways that parts of the food system could actually 36 <br />be used intentionally to provide jobs, other economic opportunity, community relationships, social value, 37 <br />and psychological value to neighborhoods that are distressed. Before my architectural education I worked 38 <br />for about four years at an architecture and urban design firm in Boston and prior to that I worked as a 39 <br />framing carpenter here in Chapel Hill for a couple years. I was a line cook and a chef in a number of places 40 <br />across the country. I spent a year as a public health statistician in Raleigh, North Carolina studying 41 <br />Pediatric Cancers and then my undergraduate experience and the in high school I actually spent a summer 42 <br />working as an on-site farm manager. So in a sense, this really divers background has prepared me to be a 43 <br />food systems consultant. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Barry Katz: What are food systems? 46 <br /> 47 <br />Erin White: A food system refers to all of the parts and relationships that get food from a farm to your table. 48 <br />And often includes how food is dealt with as waster afterwards. A food system includes how we produce 49