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Approved 11/8/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 21 of 35 <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />they’re wired. I think, its seems pretty straight forward, really simple that yes music is not amplified outside at certain <br />times that it can only happen at certain designated times and it mostly happens indoors. This idea that you moved into <br />next to farm ponds that were built by the farm for the farm you are lucky to have that view and that privilege of living on <br />water in this county but when it’s a drought, you got to run the pumps, you’ve got to water the fields. That’s the reality of <br />living next to a farm. The privilege of living next to that pond is a wonderful thing. Our pond which is not anywhere near <br />any agricultural runoff turns lime green some years. It’s not because of the farm its because the way the water is in <br />North Carolina. I just want to say that it feels like something’s been really blown out of portion here. I hope that you <br />channel back to what’s really a gift. Thank you. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Thank you, are there any others? <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Oh, I’ve got several things I need to say but… <br /> <br />Tom Brown: I am talking about citizens that are sworn in. Yes, state your name again please. <br /> <br />Meredith Berry: I am not sure why Nancy and I sitting here being attacked. It is a very uncomfortable feeling. I didn’t <br />think I was coming to a Board of Adjustment meeting to have people stand and point fingers at me. I really didn’t and I <br />am very upset about that. There is a great distinction of what we are saying and its very careful. We understand living <br />by a farm. Farm, its noisy, there’s animals, there’s tractors, that ‘s not coming from our mouths. There’s a difference <br />between the farm and the agricultural center. The agricultural center is not ‘the farm’ and I think people here are trying <br />to make them one and the same and they are not. They really aren’t. I want to say one more time, the original intent of <br />this center was to teach children and schools in Orange County and the surrounding counties about farming. Sounds <br />like all we are talking about is parties because that is our issue. Our issue is not the agricultural education, it is not. It’s <br />the parties and some folks here are saying its only a coupe of times a year, how do they know that? How do we know <br />that? People here want to give them carte blanc and let them do whatever they want, okay does that mean Monday <br />night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, and then start all over again? <br />Because if you do, then that’s what you’re saying, you can do whatever you want whenever you want. That’s our <br />concern as homeowners that live across from the agricultural center, not the farm, the agricultural center. Thank you. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Thank you. Mr. Parker. <br /> <br />Mike Parker: I will be very brief. As far as the ducks and geese, they have six ducks, they originally had six ducks and <br />six geese. As ducks and geese do they have multiplied and now they have 12 ducks and 12 geese. That’s all the <br />ducks and geese we are talking about. Again it is a five-horse power pump motor that is shown in that picture. It is <br />much smaller than your average riding mower about the third of the size of a motor in a riding mower. I grew up on a <br />farm, I’ve spent a lot of time dragging irrigation pipes, big irrigation pipes, and I don’t believe five horse power motor <br />would pump that pond down enough to cause a fish kill. I am not an expert, I admit that, but I saw big tractors run <br />irrigation pumps almost night and day and not cause fish kills. <br /> <br />I counted the events, if I am counting correctly including the two Great Dane fund raising events, there were a total of 21 <br />events; four of those were public bodied, either OWASA or the Orange County Board of Education; two of them were <br />farm tours which is conducted, I think by Orange County every year; ten had an educational component, make that 12 if <br />you include farm tour; seven had music including the Chapel Hill orchestra where they sat and played duets and solos <br />inside the building. If we have grown beyond the Special Use Permit we apologize to you. We understood it to be an <br />educational facility and that’s what I think you’ll see that the primary use has been. <br /> <br />One last thing, Bob Nutter, who is the owner and Allison Nichols, who is a manager has not been contacted by but one <br />neighbor with an olive branch to lets sit down and talk about that and my understanding is that neighbor no longer lives <br />in the subdivision. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Thank you. Mr. Harvey. <br />
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