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APPROVED 10/13/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 8/27/2014 Page 48 of 64 1 Larry Wright: Do you want them in general? 2 3 David Blankfard: Yes, I was just asking if anybody else. 4 5 Larry Wright: I think that’s a good idea. I think that’s a very good idea. 6 7 Jeff Schmitt: How did this come to us? 8 9 Larry Wright: Oh I’d like to know that too. We’ve had a couple like this. 10 11 Jeff Schmitt: I’m not quite sure that I understand what it is that we can rule on here that is not to 12 superseded by federal and or state regulations that talk about the permitting, the easement, the 13 construction, the safety, all of those aspects in regards to, because the County cannot supersede with 14 what is it wants to do in any of those regulations. 15 16 Larry Wright: It’s my understanding that the County is a stepwise process. The County with this 17 applicant, they are going through a stepwise process where it’s really going, we’re just hardly nobody. 18 They are going to say, ok, the County said this and then they go to the state, and that’s where the tire 19 meets the pavement. 20 21 Mark Micol: I think these known conditions are relevant. I think that this adds value to the process. The 22 nine conditions that staff has put together for us. 23 24 Jeff Schmitt: On the bottom, yes. I have sense of sympathy for the people who have come here tonight 25 and have testified. They have come looking to us for answers which we couldn’t provide. 26 27 Larry Wright: We can’t 28 29 Jeff Schmitt: And I’m sorry about that and on behalf of my colleagues, I apologize but that’s not our 30 responsibility and or our job in this context. But I feel sorry for those folks because at some point their 31 questions should be answered either by the applicant and or through the state public service 32 commission. There ought to be a venue where they can find answers to their questions someplace and 33 it’s a shame that it maybe not us. That needs to be a part of the record. In future things like this Larry, I 34 think there needs to be the attorney from the County needs to make sure that there is a role that we play 35 in doing this that is relevant and not just rubber stamping what some state and or federal thing because 36 that’s about all on some of these things we can do. 37 38 Larry Wright: I know, I agree that most of this is the state and the federal level. 39 40 Jeff Schmitt: As Mark said, there’s some criteria here that the County has proposed and the school bus 41 stop and all those things which are very appropriate things to take into consideration. 42 43 Larry Wright: Even if we overstep our bounds, it is going to be appealed to the superior court, but that’s 44 still more litigation. 45 46 Jeff Schmitt: I understand, I thought I had to say that for the record. 47 48 Larry Wright: All right so while we’re talking about this and before we go through and itemize this are 49 there any recommendations that we feel that we can make that we could add to those listed on page 50 283? While we’re discussing and then we put could them through at the end and then we could go right 51 through them. 52 53 Karen Barrows: I think we wanted to exclude the regulator station. 54 55