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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 59 of 86 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Jeffrey Schmitt: Mr. Harvey? Michael Harvey: I can’t interrupt someone else’s testimony. Jeffrey Schmitt: Is that relevant? Rob Maitland: I think it is. It goes to creditability. Here we are taking this man’s word that he is going to comply with all these things and do all these things and yet by his own testimony he is been making income for 20 years and never gotten a business permit or a privileged license or anything else. Gene Lonsway: I got approached about a privileged license to do business in Chapel Hill but I don’t live in Chapel Hill. As far I have been paying my taxes. Michael Harvey: Mr. Chair, given Mr. Maitland’s concern, I think I really need to answer this question. There is no privilege or business licensed requirement enforced by Orange County in any way, shape or form as it is enforced with a municipality, i.e. Town of Chapel Hill or Carrboro; there is no business license provision or requirement. Rob Maitland: So he is able to do this without the county being involved? Michael Harvey: From a business licensing provision, yes sir. Rob Maitland: When did you buy this property? Gene Lonsway: Some business partners of mine bought it three years ago. I don’t know how long exactly and then we remodeled it and painted it. If ya’ll have ever been in the neighborhood, it was in pink and orange and green and blue and that didn’t suit either me or my wife. The Key West guy who lived there before liked it a lot. My partners bought it, we purchased it. Rob Maitland: When did you buy the property? Gene Lonsway: I think about two years ago from my business partners. Rob Maitland: Who are your business partners? Gene Lonsway: Greg and Lori Ireland. Rob Maitland: I hold in my hand, a deed from Greg and Lori Ireland through their LLC called GIJOLU and it is deeds of property from them to you and it is dated September 3, 2009. How do you explain that two year difference? Gene Lonsway: I don’t know. We just moved in and bought it at some point. I am not paying a lot of attention to how long exactly I have owned the property. This is a six year ordeal. Rob Maitland: I asked you when you bought the property. An appropriate answer would have been I don’t know. You told me two years and you bought it on September 3, 2009, less than six months ago. Gene Lonsway: Okay. Rob Maitland: How long has this application been pending, would you say two years? Gene Lonsway: I think it was about a year ago that we got the first Special Use Permit and I think I started talking to architects and people of that ilk maybe a year before that and I have been doing talks, this financing has been set up in one form another for a great many year, five or six years.