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Approved 1/11/2016 OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 10 of 48 Tim Smith: It’s a pretty broad question but, overall impact obviously, there will be some impact. It’s a facility being placed on a 1 vacant piece of property that wasn’t there before. It’s a facility that is not a residence, as some of these other locations are but, and 2 I can say my professional opinion, I’ve done a lot of projects and a lot of applications for a variety of uses and businesses, 3 residence, churches. In this case, I think the overall impact will be fairly minimal. There will be impacts, I’m not going to say there’s 4 not. With regard to traffic, obviously there’s going to be some more traffic. With regards of concern of lighting, there can be 5 concerns, we’re addressing them per what the ordinance requires. We are addressing all of the items required for this SUP 6 according to the ordinance and meeting those requirements. 7 8 (multiple people talking) 9 10 Susan Halkiotis: I just wanted to follow up on the discussion about the headlights and the houses that are across the street from 11 each of the entrances, actually. On the sheet that you gave us showing the trip generation summary, I’m assuming that 66-163 12 trips is cars, or vehicles. So 66-163 vehicles may be at night, with headlights. 13 14 Tim Smith: Yes. 15 16 Susan Halkiotis: Ok, so the other thing that you mentioned a while ago is looking at perhaps how to bumper those exits on 17 Millikan and Morrow Mill and one of the things that you listed was maybe even planting trees on the Ray’s property, where I’m 18 assuming on the other properties as well. What kind of trees would be planted? Not that the Ray’s would allow this but I’m just… 19 20 (multiple people talking) 21 22 Tim Smith: We haven’t gotten into the full details, it would be something, not trees, it would be more of a hedge. Something that 23 would screen the car headlights. Obviously a few trees is not going to do that. We’d have to do some more plantings that would 24 provide more of a screen for that. And so far, until it was brought up tonight, we’ve been most concerned about the main entrance 25 where the majority, almost all of the cars will be coming and going, the service entrance we just haven’t addressed it specifically as 26 a concern, but it could be a concern. 27 28 Susan Halkiotis: Well, from the map it’s difficult for me to tell what Ray’s house and the other houses look like from the road. At 29 this point are they open view from the road? 30 31 Tim Smith: Well I was going to say the houses on Millikan are, it’s pretty open field type grass. The Ray’s property, they do have 32 some existing kind of … in the front and some larger trees in the front yard and so forth. So there are some things there, probably 33 not enough to fully screen what we’re talking about so we would be open to discussing with a meeting with them to talk over what 34 could best be done as far as moving the drive and/or adding some screening plantings. 35 36 Barry Katz: And as far as the elevation and everything, the Ray house 37 38 Tim Smith: It’s pretty level…… Same down at Millikan Road, there’s not a lot of grade change. 39 40 Barry Katz: So, as far as the headlights at night, represent something’s that a different character than what exists now. That 41 seems to be a real concern, as far as that goes. Now, I just wanted to ask you about the acoustic element to all of this. Now, you 42 mentioned of course that there’ll be music within the barn. Is there been any work done on what the decimal level will be under 43 certain circumstances at the margins of the property so that there would be some consideration about whether or not there in fact 44 is some concern about the acoustics. Has there been any work done on that? 45 46 Tim Smith: I’m not the best one to answer that question as far as the work that I’ve done with the applicant, Kara, we have not 47 discussed that in particular. 48 49 (multiple people talking) 50 51 Barry Katz: Now, one of the views of the barn showed a set of stairs that went up to a second floor. The barn itself, I assume on 52 the inside, the barn is one story, I mean it’s big and open. And then, on one end it has a second floor for like an office or 53 something. 54