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Approved 11/8/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 10/11/2010 Page 25 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 /> <br />Dawn Brezina: Mr. Harvey is there any importance in this application, page 59, where it says the facility is to serve as <br />an educational and social center? That was part of the application. <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: That is a statement made of the base page of the application by the applicant and I put it in context of <br />what they submitted as part of their justification of the facility on the subsequent pages. <br /> <br />Mike Parker: I’d like to address this question, the word agricultural in the Special Use Permit only appears in the name <br />of the owner of the property before the property’s description. Everywhere else it’s referred to as just education. Which <br />I think is your question. <br /> <br />David Blankfard: But I think, from the Special Use it incorporates this application as well. <br /> <br />Mike Parker: Right, if I understood the question, I understood it to be the Special Use Permit. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: One comment on this, Mr. Harvey, would you look on page 59 please. Is this the original submission? <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Yes <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Ok, in that submission, in the very first paragraph, it states the development of camp retreat center on the <br />property the purpose of the facility is to serve as an educational social center providing information and assistance to <br />local property owners on farming issues. That is in the handwriting of the applicant, so that is what we have on record. <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Technically, Mr. Chairman Brown, I must tell you that this is my handwriting. I provided assistance to <br />Mr. Nutter and Mr. Parker in filling out the application that is my handwriting. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Signed by Mr. Nutter <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Correct, all due respect to Mr. Nutter, I was the one that wrote that section. <br /> <br />David Blankfard: Mr. Harvey, on the minutes from 2008, page 72, it talks about the 6,000 square foot educational <br />building and then it says ‘some concerns of calls’ on line 23 ‘some concerns of calls that I received were that a camp <br />was not wanted like New Hope or Chestnut’. I am assuming Chestnut Ridge. What were those complaints at the time? <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Specifically, my recollection of my testimony here this evening sir, is they did not want a traditional <br />summer camp with tents, with cabins, with children sleeping over with there being four week summer camp program. <br />That is not occurring on the property. That was the concern and obviously we went to great lengths to make sure <br />everyone was comfortable that its not what Mr. Nutter was proposing. <br /> <br />Let me also add before we continue, as we were meeting to discuss this facility, we put it in a category that the <br />Ordinance supported. That best suited the Ordinance. When people heard the word camp they automatically had in <br />their mind what it was going to be. Camp retreat center by the Ordinance is grouped as one use. We can debate that <br />another evening whether or not it should or shouldn’t be but that’s what it is according to our code. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Do the Board members have any other questions? <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Mr. Chair, let me remind you obviously that at the conclusion of this meeting once you close the public <br />hearing there will be no more additional comments from the public. You will not be able to ask questions of myself, Mr. <br />Parker, Mr. Nutter, Ms. Nichols, or any other individual. <br /> <br />Dawn Brezina: If I may, the issue of the fish kill, was not one of your concerns or was it, there was no expert testimony <br />one-way or the other concerning that. That’s not an issue to be addressed.