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Approved 3113117 <br />1 Samantha Cabe: Alright, thank you sir. <br />2 <br />3 John Price: I have two other witnesses. If I might, I'd like to put on Mr. Owen Gwen again, very <br />4 briefly, just to identify one map. <br />5 <br />6 Samantha Cabe: Ok, and I will, for the record, note that there were some neighbors at the last <br />7 hearing who asked if it would be possible if you would be willing to yield your time to let them <br />8 speak and be heard because they waited the entire time last time and didn't get a chance to <br />9 speak. So if you would just be cognizant of the fact you have other people here wanting to talk. <br />10 <br />11 John Price: I am very aware of that. We definitely want them to be able to voice their opinion. <br />12 <br />13 Samantha Cabe: We're still under the same standing rule that we have to adjourn at 10:00, so <br />14 please keep that in mind. It's 7:48. <br />15 <br />16 John Price: Yes. Mr. Gwen, you testified previously you own property near the tower? <br />17 <br />18 Owen Gwen: Yes. <br />19 <br />20 John Price: Ok. On the Dove Field master plan power point, if you could put that up? Would this <br />21 be Opposition 8? <br />22 <br />23 Michael Harvey: Yes sir. <br />24 <br />25 Elaina Cheek: Sir, can you state your name? <br />26 <br />27 Owen Gwen: Owen Gwen. <br />28 <br />29 Elaina Cheek: Owen Gwen? <br />30 <br />31 Owen Gwen: Mm -Hmm. That is correct. <br />32 <br />33 John Price: Mr. Gwen, what is showing on the screen I have in front of you has been marked as <br />34 Opposition number 7. Are you familiar with this? <br />35 <br />36 Owen Gwen: Yes. <br />37 <br />38 John Price: Would you describe briefly what it is? <br />39 <br />40 Owen Gwen: There is a nationally known planner Randall Arndt who has written several books on <br />41 low impacts and low- density housing developments. And so being in the rural buffer and being <br />42 part of what's going on in trying to keep the community in the rural setting we went out, he went <br />43 out and to look at the land and figure out a way lightly find some home sites that were roughly the <br />44 smallest one being 10 -acre track up to about a hundred acre track to try to keep the density down. <br />45 We found these locations. <br />46 <br />47 John Price: Is this the master plan that he prepared? <br />48 <br />49 Owen Gwen: Yes. He prepared this master plan and it shows in the middle of the Cub Creek line <br />50 running through the center of my property and that's a proposed wildlife corridor and some other <br />OC Board of Adjustment — 12/12/16 Page 99 of 156 <br />