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Approved 1/11/2016 OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 32 of 48 Millikan Road, as well as Morrow Mill. So, Thomas and I both have been very stressed over this. Since we got our first letter in 1 August. We thought a lot about it and as much as we’ve been stressed over this now I can’t even imagine how much more 2 stressful we will be if this does happen. We’ve enjoyed out quiet, rural community for 53 years and I’m hoping that it will continue 3 to be quiet, as it has been in the past. 4 5 Karen Barrows: Thank you for coming up Doris. 6 7 David Rooks: Gleta Carswell 8 9 Gleta Carswell: My name is Gleta Carswell, I’ve been sworn in. Do I get to show you where I live? So this is our property. The 10 east side adjoins the proposed event center. This is our house, this is my barn, there’s my horse, that tiny little dot and this 11 property line is the fence line of the pasture. And you’ll have to forgive me, I’m nervous and I don’t usually talk in front of people. I’ll 12 try to make it as quick as I can. So, I’m one of those people. Well actually, I want to tell you why we moved her, I want to tell you 13 what we like about living there and I want to tell you what we feel will happen if the proposed event center is built there. So, I’m 14 one of those little girls that grew up wanting a horse. Well as you can tell, it took a long time before I actually managed to do that. 15 But, eventually we did. So we started looking for property, specifically, for rural property with horse barns that was quiet and 16 peaceful. Everything we’ve heard tonight was exactly what we were looking for. And we fell in love with that piece of property. And 17 we believed that Orange County was a stable and supportive county for these kind of environments and we suspected that it 18 would stay that way. So we pretty much invested the biggest investment of our life, to build a house there and to put our barn there 19 and move our horses there. My horse was one that was hurt. And I am also one of those people that sits outside at night and 20 listens to the crickets and the coyotes and takes out the telescope and looks at the stars and I can’t tell you how many nights that 21 I’ve laid out on a quilt watching meteorite showers. So some of us actually do hang out at night a lot. It’s been a beautiful 22 experience; we love living there. But I have to tell you that if I had been looking for this property and that event center had already 23 been there, as a person with an equine population to look out for, I never would have even looked at this property. So, I feel like 24 other people with the same sensibility that I have would feel the same way about this house now. We love where we live, it’s a 25 beautiful place to live, it’s a wonderful community, everyone has been very supportive and accepting. And at the heart of what the 26 proposed event center is, it’s a commercial rental space, that’s going to have parties with drinking, it’s going to generate noise, it’s 27 going to generate traffic. It’s just the entrancing nature of what it is. So, I would love to see the community stay as it is. And I’d 28 especially like to thank those people that came tonight to support us and encourage us. We really appreciate it, your support has 29 been the one bright spot of this experience and we’re very proud to be a part of your community. And we really want it to stay that 30 way. And I think other people have said things much more eloquently as I could. I thank you and I hope you will pay attention to 31 the concerns of the residence and consider this in your decision. Thank you very much. 32 33 Karen Barrows: Thank you for coming up. 34 35 Rene Quadt: My name is Rene Quadt, I live at 2700 Millikan Road. I’ve been duly sworn. Gleta has shown where I live. The 36 previous speaker lives there as well. 37 38 Karen Barrows: Have you been sworn in? 39 40 Rene Quadt: I have been duly sworn in. I agree with what the previous speaker has said. I would like to add a deep personal 41 reason why I’ve moved to this property. My wife was killed by a drunk driver and I’ve tried to get as much distance between myself, 42 bars and traffic as I possibly could. I thought I’d found that in this neighborhood. It’s quiet, I walk the dogs and I can be absolutely 43 secure and safe. Unlike other venues in this neighborhood, this venue would put people that possibly had been drinking directly on 44 country roads. That is a distained difference of this event center versus other centers in the area. Miss Brewer has proposed a 45 number of measures that would alleviate that. Those seem to be inadequate. During the information meeting, she clearly stated 46 that the responsibility for containing drunk drivers on the property was the responsibility of the caterers. That seems inadequate. 47 Having a shuttle service in place on face value seems a good idea. However, people will drive. And the fact that there are 150 48 parking spaces indicates that clearly the last assertion of Miss Brewer that the price point of this rental facility would prevent 49 excessive behavior strike me as very off. I think rich people get as drunk as poor people. But, what I’m trying to get across to is 50 that I have this feeling of security and safety in this neighborhood, and that will be broken with this event center. Thank you. 51 52 Karen Barrows: Thank you for coming up Rene. 53 54 David Rooks: That is all the evidence that I intend do so I want to make some brief closing remarks at the end. At this point I’ll ask 55