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Approved 6/13/2011 <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/14/11 Page 21 of 59 <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 />Michael Harvey: Just for the board’s edification. <br />Larry Wright: So these are not before. These numbers don’t show anything about sale of property before this <br />kennel came. <br />Vic Knight: It is an incorporation of sales that existed before Hampton Point was and built. <br />Larry Wright: I am not talking about Hampton Point; I am talking about Whispering Pines. <br />Vic Knight: There are no sales before that particular facility. <br />Larry Wright: We are talking about the kennel? <br />Vic Knight: That is correct. <br />Larry Wright: So we cannot have a before, we don’t have any data on sales before the kennel came into <br />operation. <br />Vic Knight: The one on US 70? <br />Larry Wright: Right. <br />Vic Knight: There is no data. <br />Larry Wright: So we are only looking at after so we haven’t measured the impact of the kennel going into <br />operation. <br />Vic Knight: Not on 70. <br />Larry Wright: Hampton Point, that is another, that is an… but is not a kennel. Hampton Point, in my mind, a <br />shopping center. <br />Vic Knight: It is. <br />Michael Harvey: Dr. Wright, you are referring to the numbers on page 78 of the abstract through page 82. <br />Larry Wright: In your years of, in Orange County, in making assessments, can you give me one example where <br />an enterprise moved into the area and it lowered the property value. <br />Vic Knight: I cannot. <br />Larry Wright: So really… I am not going to say anything. <br />Nick Herman: You can only go by the data that is available, right? <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br />Nick Herman: And one of the things that affects values or the impact of a particular facility, right? <br />Vic Knight: Yes. <br />Nick Herman: If you have excessive noise or traffic and depending on the amenities of the area, if you destroy the <br />amenity, you reduce the value of the properties around…