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Approved 4/22/2014 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/11/2013 Page 41 of 123 <br /> 1 <br />Jeff Schmitt: Roads and everything are different. In the 1998 resubmission, they changed the roads, names, etc. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Mark Micol: How much was done by the developer and how much by DOT and I know he mentioned the 60 foot 4 <br />easement, I know that changed from 50 to 60 sometime in the 80s. That wasn’t done by the developer but by the 5 <br />DOT standard. Is there a difference between the developers changing the plat versus the ordinance or DOT 6 <br />change? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Geof Gledhill: I don’t know. The answer could be all of what you just said. DOT could have said, well this site 9 <br />plan looks great but these road angles don’t meet … 10 <br /> 11 <br />Larry Wright: The cul-de-sac itself has to meet fire code. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Geof Gledhill: There are other laws that may have impacted the way the final plats were recorded… were 14 <br />developed. The answer is I don’t know the answer to why in every case but it could be all those things. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Jeff Schmitt: How does the county respond to the federal requirements which were enumerated by Mr. Buck in 17 <br />relation to what the county approved? Are they saying it is consistent with the federal standards? 18 <br /> 19 <br />Geof Gledhill: What I heard were not hard requirements for recreational purposes. What I heard was the same 20 <br />thing that went on in this development. 21 <br /> 22 <br />David Blankfard: I would say that the definition of active recreation is in the SUP and that takes precedence over 23 <br />further standards down the line. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Geof Gledhill: Especially when those standards are not ... I may have heard different than you did but they 26 <br />sounded very subjective to me. They are polar star if you will not something that can be reduced to 27 <br />requirements. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Larry Wright: What standards are we addressing now? 30 <br /> 31 <br />Geof Gledhill: HUD standards. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Jeff Schmitt: Mr. Chairman, what is the process here. After we finish answering questions, are you going to 34 <br />close the public hearing and then we are going to deliberate? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Larry Wright: I am going to afford you ample opportunity to ask questions you have so once we go into closed 37 <br />session, then everything will be addressed you feel you need to do. Then Mr. Rooks has some guidance for us 38 <br />and then I would like to make a five minute break and then we will come back and start the closed session. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Jeff Schmitt: Do we have jurisdiction? 41 <br /> 42 <br />David Rooks: That is an interesting question. There is a very good argument that you do not. I think in fairness 43 <br />to Mr. Buck who has put an awful lot of work into this that maybe what you should do is not pull a technicality and 44 <br />go ahead and decide it on the merits. 45 <br /> 46 <br />Geof Gledhill: I would argue you could do both. 47 <br /> 48