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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 63 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />foods on all kinds of farms, how we distribute food through any number of kinds of distribution and logistics 1 <br />channels, processing food either in massive industrial scale warehouses or in your own kitchen, how we 2 <br />consume food, how we choose to purchase food, the behaviors around eating food together, and then food 3 <br />waste to a landfill or composting or diverting food waste that could otherwise be used to feed people that 4 <br />are hungry. A food system also includes the social and political economic factors that pressed on all of the 5 <br />parts of the food systems and as a designer I see a food system as a set of interrelated parts and 6 <br />relationships that we can look at as ways to build outcomes that we want to in our communities. Whether 7 <br />those are local food values, whether they’re more economic values, whether they’re ways to ultimately 8 <br />affect climate change and so as a designer the relationship between a farm and a distributor, the 9 <br />relationship between a consumer and their food are all opportunities for design to create better 10 <br />relationships, and better value for the communities that all eat food. 11 <br /> 12 <br />Andy Petesch: And under tab 7 of the notebook, is this your CV, your bio? 13 <br /> 14 <br />Erin White: It is. 15 <br />Andy Petesch: And could you talk a little bit about your experience other than education or work? 16 <br /> 17 <br />Erin White: Yes. So in addition to client based projects at the community food lab we also generate 18 <br />publications helping communicate of local food systems to different populations. I’ve had articles and 19 <br />publications in numbers of places. And actually, going back to 1999 when I was just out of Undergrad had a 20 <br />first author peer review paper on pediatric cancer. And service that I do know includes a number of things 21 <br />around food policy. I represent inaudible for local food in a health coalition in Wake County as a Board 22 <br />member and I’m also a co-founder of a food policy council in Wake County called the Capital Area Food 23 <br />Network. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Andy Petesch: And what was your final project in your masters program? 26 <br /> 27 <br />Erin White: It was actually looking at the role of the architect in local food systems so I looked at a two 28 <br />square mile area of Durham, North Carolina looking at it at three different levels. One was created a food 29 <br />systems theory that all the parts of a food system had value that could be applied in a design sense. 30 <br />Second, looking at it from an urban design standpoint and thinking about where circulation was, where 31 <br />investments might go, where different kinds of food systems projects such as food hubs, or community 32 <br />gardens, or urban farms might have the best value for the neighborhood. And then architecturally looked at 33 <br />the ways that individual projects could be expressed physically to realize the maximum benefit for the 34 <br />particular project. So a market would want to be visible. A community garden would want to engage people 35 <br />as they walked past. Stuff like that. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Andy Petesch: At this time I’d like to ask the Board to recognize Mr. White as an expert in food system 38 <br />policy. 39 <br /> 40 <br />LeAnne Brown: I’m going to object at this point for the record. The standard for the acceptance of an expert 41 <br />is two fold. One, you have a peculiar expertise and two, does it have some relevance to a decision that’s 42 <br />going to be made by the trier of fact, which is you, such that the testimony for you to form your opinion and 43 <br />I’m struggling with how this testimony may have relevance to this issue you are here to decide. Which is 44 <br />whether the wedding use to this property is incidental to the farm. So I’m not understanding the purpose of 45 <br />the witness. 46 <br /> 47 <br />Andy Petesch: The purpose of the witness is… The issue before this Board is what the use is, non-farm or 48 <br />bona fide farm purpose. That’s what the decision was made. The statute says if you’re doing agritourism 49