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Approved 1/11/2016 OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 37 of 48 where the party barn’s going to be. We’ve heard from a number of them. There are obviously a lot more people there now, they’re 1 in the room for the most part. They’re the ones that I slow down for when their kids are riding down the middle of the road, didn’t 2 have to do that before. They’re the ones riding horses on the side of the road. They’re the ones that are out walking and running, 3 the ones that are out riding their bikes. Morrow Mill Road is a major bike route for rides out of Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. It’s not 4 at all unusual for groups of 20-50 bike riders to come down Morrow Mill Road. Just about every Saturday and Sunday, you’ll have 5 a large group of bikes. Orange County’s already experienced a number of issues with traffic and bikes. I suggest that, if the party 6 barn goes in and the traffic increases as we would expect it to there will be more problems. I don’t really think you want that. I 7 would suggest to you that this is not at all a compatible activity for this community. It is truly an agriculture and residential 8 community. What you’re considering tonight is a full blown commercial activity. There’s not farming. My barn has farm machinery, 9 and horses and hay and other agricultural products in it. This is not a barn, it’s a full blown commercial event center with potential 10 for a commercial kitchen. I don’t see how you color it any other way, I do not see it as an appropriate activity for this community. It 11 is unlike anything else that exists out there right now. As has been evidence by comments you’ve heard tonight. 12 13 Karen Barrows: Thank you Richard. 14 15 Richard Drake: I don’t want to be terribly redundant but, there are a number of issues that have been expressed. I want to be sure 16 you heard… 17 18 Karen Barrows: We have heard them……. If you’re just going to repeat … 19 20 Richard Drake: Be sure. I don’t think any of you would like this in your community. 21 22 Karen Barrows: Thank you coming forward. 23 24 Richard Drake: I’m not sure I would move into a place where none of my neighbors wanted me there. 25 26 Karen Barrows: Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? 27 28 Jenny Marion: My name is Jenny Marion, I’m on 3030 Morrow Farm Lane. I just want to bring up something that nobody else… 29 30 Karen Barrows: Have you been sworn in Jenny. 31 32 Jenny Marion: Not yet. 33 34 Karen Barrows: Would you put your hand on the bible please? Do you swear the testimony you’re about to give or the comments 35 are true and accurate? 36 37 Jenny Marion: And I know that I’m a little bit out of the range of the 500 feet but, everybody on my street has to go out that 38 opening, it’s maybe 600 ft. away. And one of my concerns, that I haven’t heard anybody bring up yet is it only takes one misplaced 39 cigarette butt that isn’t all the way out before there’s a fire out there and it there’s nobody there at night to see it, it can be a danger 40 to all of us. I mean, everybody on Morrow Farm Lane knows there’s only one way in and out. If that area caught fire on a dry, 41 summer night; I think we’d be in big trouble. I mean, I’m concerned about that. I mean, there’s not going to be anybody out there 42 monitoring, making sure that that’s not happening. 43 44 Karen Barrows: Thank you Jenny. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? If not, would the applicant like to have closing 45 comments? 46 47 Sharron Linn: Yes. So first I wanted to address some of the specific concerns. I think we heard a lot of concerns about fireworks. 48 We have that in our conditions, offered by the applicant, no pyrotechnics of any kind will be used on the property. There will be no 49 fireworks going off and spooking horses. This was in our most recent signed proposed conditions on the website and as to the 50 driving and safety issue, if you turn to page 77 of your packets we do have correspondence with Sheriff Charles Blackwood 51 and he did say that the proposed project off Morrow Mill Road would not create an adverse effect to our law enforcement 52 operation. Nor would we need to create any policy or procedures as a result of the project being approved and he said as with 53 other similar venues in the county we generally don’t receive an increased number of calls as a result of their operations. And I’d 54