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APPROVED 11/11/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 9/10/2013 Page 23 of 38 David Blankfard: That would normally match. The county data and the plat will match. 1 2 Michael Buck: This particular parcel, they put play equipment and so forth, there is no character 3 of the land, no slope, no transmission line or other things that would exclude it from being 4 counted but that is not the case on other parcels. 5 6 Geof Gledhill: I am going to object to this and subsequent ones of these. This board has no 7 evidence of Mr. Buck’s qualifications to make these calculations to use Google in this matter. I 8 see he has a control to prove to you it works but that doesn’t mean he has the ability to create 9 these. It seems you need expert testimony as to how this Google maps system can prove what it 10 is. 11 12 David Rooks: I don’t want to get hung up here because we keep getting hung up time after time. 13 The point is a good one to the extent that Google relies on GIS if you superimpose GIS we know 14 it is not a one to one match a true match and so to the extent that you are actually relying on that 15 to locate things strikes me and makes that evidence somewhat unreliable. 16 17 Michael Buck: The County has in its own documentation relied on estimates. They are using 18 those exact words when they talk about active recreational area. Mr. Gledhill was effusive a few 19 moments of my technology skills and I would submit to you that all that is required to operate this 20 Plano meter tool is the clicking of a mouse to locate a parcel location. I am not trying to claim 21 that this board should use the calculations used by the Plano meter tools to make specific 22 recreation acreage plans but I submit to you that when we add up all the acreage calculations we 23 will not be off by a few feet but we will be off by substantial acreage and being off by substantial 24 acreage is significant enough…. 25 26 David Rooks: It is 9:30 pm and we are stuck on something. I think Mr. Buck has a point he wants 27 to get to. 28 29 Larry Wright: Could you get to your point please. 30 31 Michael Buck: I am trying to get to it without being argumentative. 32 33 Larry Wright: I want to see what you are going to say. 34 35 Michael Buck: These pictures as evidence, these are within the active recreation area and here 36 is an overlay of the plat so if you look at the plat for Phase IV. That is the tot lot we just looked at. 37 Here is what is being claimed as active recreation in Phase IV on the plat. There is a utility 38 transmission easement that goes through here and a stream buffer there. The next one I want to 39 show you is on this portion of this parcel how much acreage can be used as a field. 40 41 Geof Gledhill: I object to that. 42 43 Larry Wright: What grounds? 44 45 Geof Gledhill: It doesn’t matter. [How much acreage can be used as a field?] 46 47 Michael Buck: The County is doing the exact same thing in their estimate. They have an 48 estimate of how much acreage on this parcel can be used as active recreation. Their claim is 49 1.07 acres because they include the parking lot and portions of the transmission utility so if we 50 are going to exclude my ability then we must exclude the county’s ability to include their estimate. 51