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<br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 12 of 35
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<br />Bill Waddell: I am actually a past Chair of the Orange County Board of Adjustment, twenty years ago, I have some fond
<br />memories of this place. When I came here I wasn’t really sure what I was going to be talking about and I am still not
<br />sure exactly, having listened to the discussion, I like you Mr. Wright I am somewhat concerned about the long list of
<br />complaints that seem to be vanishing one at a time. If I got the comments correct, there were three things remain at
<br />issue. One, yoga classes, fundraisers, and rentals, am I understanding that correct?
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<br />Michael Harvey Yes
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<br />Bill Waddell: Ok, it’s sort of changing every minute so I’m just trying to catch up. Of those, I have been at the facility for
<br />various meetings. I wouldn’t really call them fundraisers. I would call them public meetings where people have come to
<br />discuss several issues including agricultural, educational issues. One thing I think I’m seeing here tonight is that when
<br />one takes a simple one word description of an event as fundraiser or rental, one tends to overlook the educational
<br />components of the activities within the particular meetings. I would stress that this educational facility interjects into all
<br />of those and educational concept or heart that really isn’t present in just about any other meeting space.
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<br />This is unique to my knowledge, I haven’t seen one anywhere else in Orange County or any of the neighboring
<br />counties. It is a concept that Mr. Nutter came up with much to the surprise I think of everyone that was around there.
<br />Nobody really thought it would work but it sure seems to be working now. It’s working, I believe, because he is
<br />consistent with his view that anything and everything that is done within that building is focused upon the agricultural
<br />impact that agriculture has to those activities. So, to simply say that some meeting is a rental or is this or that, I think is
<br />shortchanging the activities Mr. Nutter is undertaking. Lots of other people to talk, thank you.
<br />Tom Brown: Thank you.
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<br />Michael Harvey: Next individual is Lynne Jaffe.
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<br />Lynne Jaffe: Good evening, thank you for your time. I’m the yoga teacher. I just want to say up front that they barely
<br />charge me anything to teach there. It’s really pretty much donated so I just want to say that. I don’t think I’ve had more
<br />than eight people at one class, usually less than five. We don’t play music, we’re inside, we’re very quiet but that’s not
<br />the law, I understand that. That still doesn’t fit in with the law, this special use allocation. So, yoga means union, means
<br />to unite. I am going to stretch this a little bit and that’s what we do in yoga, we stretch. Agriculture, I don’t know what
<br />the term agri means?
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<br />Dawn Brezina: Soil
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<br />Lynne Jaffe: Soil culture. I was thrilled to death to have a place to teach classes on embodiment. All of us are nothing
<br />but earth, air, water, fire and this great mystery that grows food and people at the same time. Yoga is a form of
<br />nourishment. It is nourishment for the soul, food for the body, we have food for the soul. I very much, in my classes,
<br />incorporate ‘what does it mean to be in this body’, ‘how are we related to the earth’, ‘how do we embody the air or the
<br />water’ any of these elements that are also what feed the plants.
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<br />In my mind, and in the mind of my students, and I have a few supporters here whether they are in my classes or not,
<br />yoga is an agricultural activity. Maybe not by standard definition, but the classes that are happening there, we go out
<br />into the land and we, ‘what is it like to be corn’, ‘what is it like to come into a posture of corn’, ‘what is it like to go out and
<br />see the animals’. We go back and see the animals, see how they move, ‘what is it like to move like a cow or a goat’.
<br />This might all sound silly to you, but we are creatures too. We are animals too. I am just here to say that it would be a
<br />shame for this activity that is just a different of coming into relationship with the land, with the environment, with the
<br />creature that we are not to have a home. Most of the yoga studios are downtown, in a building with parking lot, I and all
<br />of my students don’t have to spend all that gas to go all the way into town to go to a parking lot. We can go and be in
<br />relationship with the fields, the sky and that is very much a part of what this educational experience is of yoga. So,
<br />thank you for your time.
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<br />Michael Harvey: The next person signed up to speak was John Hartley.
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