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Approved 11/8/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 20 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 engage in education and gatherings of various sorts including square dances or whatever else but I think what may have been a bit out of kilter here may be that the demand from the community to the Nutters to have a range of uses affiliated with this terrific facility may have grown beyond what was initially anticipated in their application. I would hope that rather than telling them that they’re somehow going to be penalized or told that they can’t move ahead with this that the Board of Adjustment in its wisdom would invite zoning administrative work with the Nutters and those involved in the ag center to try to provide a clear indication of what in fact be done there and also be sure that the neighbors if they need to have notice should be given notice. I have to say that I appreciate that the neighbors are here who are closest to the facility and have a view about how they prefer there to be absolute quiet in the country but as best I can see, I don’t think that its generally the way the world works. I am sure you’re wise enough to realize that and will try to do justice here. Thank you very much. Tom Brown: Thank you. Michael Harvey: Last person I have signed up to speak was Ms. Allison Nichols. Allison Nichols: That was because you needed me to speak to the Board. Lynn Jaffe: Is it possible for me to say something? Michael Harvey: That’s up to the Board. Tom Brown: So we have Allison Nichols and she’s already spoken? Michael Harvey: Correct. Tom Brown: Lynne Jaffe, yes you may. Lynne Jaffe: I just wanted to say that we moved back, we’re on the backside of the farm. Moved there in 1994 for the peace and quiet, yes. This is the second farm we’ve lived next to I will say. Farms are not always quiet, pastoral places that there is kind of a myth around farming so we moved in and the first thing that happened about two months after we moved in was that the neighbors who have a tree farm next to us decided to clear cut that whole 90 acres. That was very noisy, we didn’t have anything to say about it but what happened then seven, six years later, I don’t know, was that the ice cream store opened. The summer came and our windows were open and all of the sudden, oh my god what is that noise? It was the compressors to keep the ice, keep things cold on the farm, okay, I am going to have to live with this noise. It was pretty upsetting at first and then I thought, I live next to a farm, this is what they need to do to sustain themselves. This is their business, now I understand I don’t have any rights perhaps, I don’t know but it was just coming to recognize that farms are not always quiet places. There’s a lot of noise that goes on farms. I can say that one night last winter, Meredith, on a very cold night, I was out there at three in the morning one night and you left your dogs out and I came over all the way to your house, your dogs were barking incessantly. Meredith Berry: Our dogs aren’t out at night, our dogs are inside. Lynne Jaffe: They were that night because I was there. I walked over there. So I am just saying, dogs bark, people on Saturdays and Sundays use leaf blowers. I understand the issue about the bands, I think you said Nancy, at least once you had to shut your windows. Nancy Oglesby: Each time there has been a concert. Tom Brown: Let’s please keep the comments directed to the Board. Lynne Jaffe: So what I am saying is just only that it hasn’t been every weekend it’s been a couple of times. I know these people; they’re not interested in sitting out on their porch and listening to loud rock concerts. It’s just not the way