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Approved 11/8/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 13 of 35 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 John Hartley: My name is John Hartley, I share a common border with Mapleview Farm to the north. With sincerest respect of Michael Harvey and the planning staff, it is incredulous of taking on a whole new meaning where this educational building would be restricted in any way. I would for this opportunity to be for this educational facility to be expanded to serve the community more not less. I would love to see fundraisers there, I would like to people use this for receptions. I have never heard any noise coming off of the facility except for on a Saturday afternoon where they were doing a fundraiser for adopting Great Danes that didn’t have homes. I would like to see that expanded. I would like to see the facility used as much as possible. When Bob first told me about the facility, I said ‘Bob what do you want to do that for?’ He said ‘well, just gotta pass it on to the next generation’. We need to do that. This man is, well it’s hard to express what he is to this community. He should have carte blanc on that property. It should be expanded it should be absolutely anything that he wants on there with the blessings, I would hope, of the planning staff and Mr. Harvey. There is no noise coming off that place. I hear the road noise, I hear airplanes, I hear my neighbors who have probably complained about the facility, dogs barking, but I have not in any way heard any disturbance from that farm. Michael Harvey: The next individual was Marsha Chapman. Marsha Chapman: That was a mistake. I thought people were signing in to show they were here. I am here to support the Nutters and in gratitude for all that they have done when there have been other battles in this part of the county to keep it rural. That’s what I am saying. Everything has been said and I just thought that people were supposed to sign in. Michael Harvey: Thank you. Nancy Oglesby. Nancy Oglesby: Should I stand? Hi, I am one of the residents of one of the four houses that is closest to that ag center. I have known the Nutter family for a long time and I am a big supporter of the farm. I think that the ag center was a great idea and when we had neighborhood meetings before it was built and it was described to us, we were fully supportive. We didn’t come to speak at the hearings when it was proposed. I would like to point out that somewhere in the permit it also says that there won’t be any negative impact on surrounding neighbors. I think that it is a great facility and it’s a great addition to the community and as a source for education about agriculture and the way it was described. And if people need to raise money by expanding the use to have quiet activities like children’s birthday parties and yoga classes and even groups, larger groups coming out, I just think it’s nice that we have it there but I don’t see any reason that we need to have loud rock and roll concerts with speakers and amplifiers and stages outdoors that are directed towards my house. I also don’t understand why we need to damage the environment which I thought was one of the things that we are trying to protect here. I will be more specific. There have been several of these fundraisers on the weekends and at least one party that had an outdoor band. I think that the topography is really significant here. The ag center is built next to a pond there. There’s these two ponds and the way the speakers are usually set up they point back across the water. The sound is amplified and then our house is on the side of a hill, it’s like a little fish bowl. We got the full brunt of the sound of the speakers. The first one was so loud that even when I went inside my house and closed and locked all my doors and all my windows, it was so loud that I could still hear every word loud enough that I could sing along inside my house. I totally respect that not all houses are impacted this way but our house is and I thought, based on conversation with the neighbors and after reading the permit when it was first approved that we were protected from this sort of thing. Regarding the environmental impact, I’d like to say that this June there was a huge fish kill on the pond that we live by. We came out on Monday morning, we got calls from neighbors, and there were several thousand dead fish floating on the pond. Because it is part of the waterway for University Lake we had someone from the state come out and look. They said basically the only problem with the water is that it has extremely low oxygen. My understanding after doing some research is that low oxygen in water is usually because there is extra nutrients in the water and bacteria feed on