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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 45 of 86 <br />1 2 3 <br />4 <br />5 6 7 <br />8 <br />9 10 11 <br />12 <br />13 14 15 <br />16 <br />17 18 19 <br />20 <br />21 22 23 <br />24 <br />25 26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />53 54 <br />Nick Herman: Would you say that there are imperfections in the data inasmuch as here there is at least a certain amount of <br />distance between these two. Wouldn’t it have been nuts if Sunny Acres was right there, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Then you could find out a little bit more, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Likely, yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You didn’t build Sunny Acres; you had to deal with what you had. You could find no evidence of impact, <br />anything about a kennel that seemed to impact? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: I could not. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Otherwise, you had the benefit, you have been out there to the Southerland/Lonsway neighborhood, you have <br />been out there in the street and you have seen how much noise there is, you have seen what the houses are like and the <br />like? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Right. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You have seen the buffer areas and the trees and all that stuff. <br /> <br />Vic Knight: That is correct. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: And then, you were made aware of the acoustical aspects of this facility, how much noise was to be <br />generated from it, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Right. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: That is in your report, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You did an analysis of how much traffic there was, right? You noted that in the report. <br /> <br />Vic Knight: I pulled the NCDOT traffic reports for the year 2007 to get some gauge of what the traffic count was. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Things like increased traffic from a commercial enterprise, increased noise from a commercial enterprise no <br />matter what it is, whether you are doing anything from blasting to having a whole lot of people there. Like at Wal-Mart and K- <br />Mart. Those things have potential impact on value, sometimes? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: They could. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: They could. In some instances they do, right? In this case, based on everything you know about the so- <br />called Lonsway project, is there anything about that that contains any kind of noise or increased congestion or pollution or <br />anything that would have any conceivable negative impact on value in this neighborhood? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Based on the information I was given after doing the analysis, I can’t find any historical, statistical information <br />that says there is an impact. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Okay. From a common sense standpoint, or even in the absence of data, is there, based upon what you <br />know about the Lonsway facility, is there anything about that facility that would indicate some kind of negative impact on <br />contiguous property value? <br />