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Approved 11/8/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 21 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 they’re wired. I think, its seems pretty straight forward, really simple that yes music is not amplified outside at certain times that it can only happen at certain designated times and it mostly happens indoors. This idea that you moved into 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 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 living next to a farm. The privilege of living next to that pond is a wonderful thing. Our pond which is not anywhere near any agricultural runoff turns lime green some years. It’s not because of the farm its because the way the water is in North Carolina. I just want to say that it feels like something’s been really blown out of portion here. I hope that you channel back to what’s really a gift. Thank you. Tom Brown: Thank you, are there any others? Michael Harvey: Oh, I’ve got several things I need to say but… Tom Brown: I am talking about citizens that are sworn in. Yes, state your name again please. Meredith Berry: I am not sure why Nancy and I sitting here being attacked. It is a very uncomfortable feeling. I didn’t 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 am very upset about that. There is a great distinction of what we are saying and its very careful. We understand living by a farm. Farm, its noisy, there’s animals, there’s tractors, that ‘s not coming from our mouths. There’s a difference between the farm and the agricultural center. The agricultural center is not ‘the farm’ and I think people here are trying 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 this center was to teach children and schools in Orange County and the surrounding counties about farming. Sounds 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 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 that? People here want to give them carte blanc and let them do whatever they want, okay does that mean Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, and then start all over again? Because if you do, then that’s what you’re saying, you can do whatever you want whenever you want. That’s our concern as homeowners that live across from the agricultural center, not the farm, the agricultural center. Thank you. Tom Brown: Thank you. Mr. Parker. Mike Parker: I will be very brief. As far as the ducks and geese, they have six ducks, they originally had six ducks and six geese. As ducks and geese do they have multiplied and now they have 12 ducks and 12 geese. That’s all the ducks and geese we are talking about. Again it is a five-horse power pump motor that is shown in that picture. It is 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 farm, I’ve spent a lot of time dragging irrigation pipes, big irrigation pipes, and I don’t believe five horse power motor 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 irrigation pumps almost night and day and not cause fish kills. I counted the events, if I am counting correctly including the two Great Dane fund raising events, there were a total of 21 events; four of those were public bodied, either OWASA or the Orange County Board of Education; two of them were farm tours which is conducted, I think by Orange County every year; ten had an educational component, make that 12 if you include farm tour; seven had music including the Chapel Hill orchestra where they sat and played duets and solos inside the building. If we have grown beyond the Special Use Permit we apologize to you. We understood it to be an educational facility and that’s what I think you’ll see that the primary use has been. One last thing, Bob Nutter, who is the owner and Allison Nichols, who is a manager has not been contacted by but one neighbor with an olive branch to lets sit down and talk about that and my understanding is that neighbor no longer lives in the subdivision. Tom Brown: Thank you. Mr. Harvey.