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Approved 3113117 <br />1 John Price: And are you authorized to act on behalf of Dove Field LLC? <br />2 <br />3 Owen Gwen: I am. <br />4 <br />5 John Price: Was the property now owned by Dove Field LLC once your family's farm? <br />6 <br />7 Owen Gwen: It was. We've had it for over 50 years. <br />8 <br />9 John Price: Would you describe the property in terms of terrain, foliage, wildlife, and so forth? <br />10 <br />11 Owen Gwen: It's ....... It's ...... Cub creek runs basically through the center of it, which is part of <br />12 the Jordan Lake watershed. We've got many springs, and several ponds. At one time, it is <br />13 interesting, we were going to propose a resovoir for the property as a water supply for Chapel Hill. <br />14 We would've supplied a little over a weeks worth of water at the current use but the impact factors <br />15 on to meet the environmental impact were going to cost over $4,000,000 just in impact fees so we <br />16 couldn't do that project, so instead we looked towards setting up an area for a wildlife corridor. <br />17 <br />18 John Price: Do your son and daughter also live on the Dove Field Property? <br />19 <br />20 Owen Gwen: That's true. They manage the farm. <br />21 <br />22 John Price: Do you currently hold any positions of any boards or commissions for environmental <br />23 organizations? <br />24 <br />25 Owen Gwen: Well I'm a family member of the National Trust Real Estate Program. It's not really <br />26 inaudible. Also the chair person at the Global Housing Foundation, which builds affordable <br />27 housing and I've been a real estate agent in Orange County for 40 years. So I'm Board of <br />28 Realtors and that sort of thing. <br />29 <br />30 John Price: What caused you to become involved with other organizations? <br />31 <br />32 Owen Gwen: I was a familiy member of the North Carolina Traveling Tourism Board and part of <br />33 the mandate of the Board was to preserve the State's estuaries and forests, wetlands, open lands, <br />34 and that endoctrined into me towards that. I have to admit I've never met an appraiser that didn't <br />35 understand what a view shed was but I'm just saying view sheds are an intrical part of valuation in <br />36 my mind of any property. <br />37 <br />38 John Price: How would you describe the geography character aestheics of the properties? <br />M <br />OC Board of Adjustment — 12/12/16 Page 58 of 156 <br />