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Approved 11/8/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 16 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 Mike Parker: If you’d like a listing of the bands that played that day, the people from MAGDA can give you that because when the sheriffs department came over it was kids from AL Stanback. Nancy Oglesby: There were multiple bands throughout the day and I believe one of my neighbors, we were told that there were seven calls of noise complaint on one of the days. One of the calls came from someone in our neighborhood and the other six must have come from somewhere else because we talked amongst ourselves and were able to figure that out. I think that between the time that a person called and the time that an officer responded there probably could have been several bands past. Mike Parker: We received no notice of any complaint from the Sheriff department. We found out about this because we made an investigation. Allison Nichols: The sheriff department came over there and laughed. I mean they told me that I wasn’t violating any sort of noise ordinance because that was from 12 to 6. They said they had to stand on the edge of people’s property and watch the hayride go by for a few seconds and asked what I need to do and he told me I had not done anything wrong. So there was no formal notice given to me by the sheriff department there was no report made. We called the sheriff department to find out. Tom Brown: Thank you. Michael Harvey: Meredith Berry. Meredith Berry: I’ll introduce myself as the person who did make that complaining call. I’m the Ms. Berry that we were just discussing. I had no idea that I was going to be speaking tonight so I apologize if I’m not quite as organized as I would have like to have been. I am a next-door neighbor of Nancy’s and I share all of her concerns. I share all of her feelings about the agricultural center as it was originally explained to our community, our homeowner’s community, by Bob and Chris Nutter in their home as they were seeking their Special Use Permit. I was part of our homeowners group who wholeheartedly backed what they were doing. I love living where I live, I love being out in the country. I love farms, all the animals, I love agriculture. My daughter is a farmer out in Olympia, Washington. Hopefully she’ll move back here and become a farmer. I am a teacher, I’ve taught for over 35 years so I know what education is about. I know why farming and agricultural education is important for children, I know that but when this original proposal came up the Nutters had us over to their home to explain what they wanted to build and what they wanted to have in our community. They showed us their drawings and we stayed for several hours and had several conversations and asked questions. It was very open and what we felt to be a very open and honest afternoon of conversation. I remember hearing ‘we’ll be down in the corner, you’ll never even know we’re there’. Well that’s not what’s happened. We do know they’re there. Part of the way we know they’re there is fine. They have a beautiful building. The school groups are great. The garden is great. I have absolutely no problems with any of that, I really don’t. What I have a problem with is what Nancy started describing which no one else had. I feel the brunt of wheat night of nighttime bands, birthday bands, happy birthday eight, nine o’clock at night being sung. I am sitting on my screened porch a quarter of a mile away and I can sing along with happy birthday, eight, nine, or ten o’clock. Somehow not thinking that’s an agricultural event, an educational event for kids in school. I am hearing the fundraisers, well they didn’t pay for it, it doesn’t matter that they didn’t pay for it that is was a fundraiser, it still impacting our quality of life if we never know when an event is going to occur. We can be sitting down for nice Sunday or Saturday afternoon outside quiet, rural Orange County countryside and all of a sudden we’ve got music blaring. Nancy is absolutely 100% correct, we have gone inside and closed our doors and windows and we can hear it just as if we are outside. I did not have any idea that type of activity was going to occur when we said to Nutters please build this we’re all for you. We meant that but I will say that had I known this and that hindsight, I would have been right here when they applied for this permit and opposing it. If I had know that they were going to advertise for wedding