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Approved 12/12/16 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 79 of 113 <br /> <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: I’m afraid I can’t answer that. I’m not a sanitarian. 1 <br /> 2 <br />Barry Katz: I just don’t know how processing chestnuts, which are sort of a raw, agricultural product, would 3 <br />interfere with getting approval from the Department of Health for running a restaurant in that facility. I just 4 <br />don’t know. One other question. What do you estimate the additional cost of equipment for doing these 5 <br />chestnuts will be over and above the $50,000 that you mentioned? 6 <br /> 7 <br />Chris Brewer: So we’ve acquired the land, which is the largest. 8 <br /> 9 <br />Barry Katz: Just for processing the chestnuts. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Chris Brewer: Oh, just for processing. I would say $5,000-$8,000. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Barry Katz: And you plan on growing the bulk of your chestnuts some other place and shipping them into 14 <br />this place? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Chris Brewer: Correct. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Barry Katz: Ok. No further questions. 19 <br /> 20 <br />Andy Petesch: Now I’d like to follow up with Mr. Harvey. He was sworn at the last meeting and remains so 21 <br />now. Mr. Harvey, there was testimony at the October 10, 2016 hearing that you had made a determination 22 <br />that the Brewers’ and SPG needed to get, initially in reviewing this proposal, a SUP in order to operate a 23 <br />special event center. Is that Correct? 24 <br /> 25 <br />Michael Harvey: That is a correct statement. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Andy Petesch: And in what form did you provide that determination? How’d you communicate that to Ms. 28 <br />Brewer? 29 <br /> 30 <br />Michael Harvey: Ms. Brewer and the staff had had several different meetings discussing the concepts and it 31 <br />was my determination of what I told her at that point in time based on the information I had available to that 32 <br />what she was proposing was a regulated retreat center requiring the issuance of a Class B SUP in order to 33 <br />develop this on the property. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Andy Petesch: And so you verbally communicated that information to her? 36 <br /> 37 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Andy Petesch: And was there ever a written determination that was sent to her? 40 <br /> 41 <br />Michael Harvey: No, sir. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Andy Petesch: Ok thank you. No further questions. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Barry Katz: Mr. Harvey, can you just say again what you thought they were proposing to do? 46 <br /> 47 <br />Michael Harvey: As testified to at your last meeting Ms. Brewer had actually come to talk to staff on a 48 <br />couple different occasions prior to the submittal of a Class B SUP on her desire to open a retreat center, a 49