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