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Approved 12/12/16 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/10/16 Page 9 of 113 have the kind of traffic right next to a horse pasture that we will have if the center is operational we’re going 1 to have a lot of noise at odd hours because that’s the service entrance. There’s going to be caterers 2 coming in at weird hours, there’s going to be trucks and stuff coming in. The trash will be coming in and out 3 of the service. We’ll probably have increased trash, also. I already have alluded to the fact that one of my 4 horses is an older, retired racehorse. He’s easy to agitate and they get very upset. There was another 5 incident when they were putting the power line in just this past week and I was observing the horses and 6 they both got very upset. They were racing around the pasture for a few minutes. So when people come in 7 and out of those drives at odd hours or making noises that they’re not used to they tend to get upset, and 8 nervous, and agitated. Also, you can see, clearly, all the way down to my house and my barn from the 9 service drive so you can see, whatever privacy we had is also being impacted. But, the main concern I 10 have is that my property was specifically designed to be horse property and my property’s value to me, 11 personally, as horse property will be severely degraded and compromised if there’s an event center of the 12 scale that the Brewers’ are proposing to put in next door. 13 14 LeAnne Brown: Do you consider the development of this event center next to you to cause you to lose your 15 ability to enjoy your property for the purpose you bought it? 16 17 Gleta Carswell: Yes. I definitely do. Privacy is very important to me. And as I said the safety of my horses 18 and the consideration that we had in choosing it specifically for horse property. It was the overriding 19 decision we had for that property and I said this before and I’ll say it again, had the event center been there 20 when we were looking for property we never would’ve even considered looking at that piece of property. 21 22 LeAnne Brown: How will the event center disturb your life style as a rural farmer? 23 24 Gleta Carswell: Well, mainly the safety of my animals. We’re going to have a lot more noise, and the 25 possibility of individuals who are walking around at the event center who might feel like it’s part of the 26 wedding event experience to go pet the horses or something like that. Also, our drive is not too far away 27 from their drive and it’s a long gravel drive and if people are driving around and they get lost and have to 28 turn around they have to come all the way down to my house before they can turn around. So there’s a 29 possibility that people will be more on our property than I would hope for. 30 31 LeAnne Brown: You had mentioned trash. Are you concerned about trash blowing off of service trucks and 32 that sort of thing? 33 34 Gleta Carswell: Yes, because the dumpsters are located on that side of the property and the trash trucks 35 will be coming up and down that road and I have yet to see a trash truck that doesn’t at least have some 36 trash falling off of it at some time. 37 38 LeAnne Brown: Do you have any concern about the location of your drive to the other drive in addition to 39 people missing the driveway? 40 41 Gleta Carswell: My biggest concern is that people will use our driveway as a turn around and will be 42 confused and come into our drive and think that it’s public. 43 44 LeAnne Brown: If there were vehicles lined up to go into the drive to the event center would it potentially 45 block your driveway? 46 47 Gleta Carswell: It could. 48 49