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Approved 11/14/2011 OC Board of Adjustment – 6/13/2011 Page 11 of 44 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 53 54 Lue Simopoulos: I have not been sworn in. Tom Brown: Swore in. Lue Simopoulos: This is my house, I am number two. This is the ag center here. I am closer than anybody here. I am hundreds of yards closer that most of the people who have spoken on behalf of Mr. Nutter. I do want to say that Mr. and Mrs. Nutter, when they called us in to do the ag center, I was very supportive. Being right next door, I thought it was a great idea, my daughter and I walk over to see the animals almost daily. We love the ag center and the farm. What we were led to understand was that it was going to be an educational program and we were absolutely for it and supported it all the way. Mr. Nutter was so kind, when the first winter came and all the leaves fell I woke up and I looked out and there was this big red barn that I had not seen before because when the trees are up I couldn’t see it and suddenly it was very, very close. They were responsive to me immediately to put a buffer in. So I have been pleased with their response. The place in where I am joining my neighbors is in this issue of changing this use to where there could be parties so often. We agreed with the idea of having occasional parties, we have occasional parties. They can have occasional parties too. Changing the use, as my neighbors have said, that all of the sudden we may have parties all weekend, every weekend and that is not why we live here and why we moved next to this farm so that is the main thing I wanted to say. I do want to say and I wanted everybody to understand that I am the one who is most impacted, I am right next door so it is hard to listen to people talk about how we should be grateful and all these other things when they live so much farther away. I hear everything that goes on next door. When the leaves are down, I see everything. When the leaves are up, I just hear it and that has all been fine as long as it is not excessive and that is where I agree with my neighbors. That is all we have asked for contrary from what my further away neighbors seem to believe that we have been the horrible neighbors out to get the Nutters. It is not. Mary Messinger: I am a part of Maple View I. We bought our land in 1994. I have been sworn in. We moved into our house in 1996. I am in agreement with my neighbors of Maple View I in that I love the fact that the Nutters have been so good in our community and love the idea of the ag center and it goes far beyond our community. As far as Raleigh, Greensboro and even farther than that. My concern is the same here with my neighbors in Maple View 1, that I can hear the noise from my house. I don’t know if my property is even on there. I live here and it is a good distance away. Through the pond, up the hill, over the woods and I can hear it. I actually thought it was my neighbor from Maple View 1 who has two teenage boys, dad was gone, they had a big party. The next day, and they had a big party. I could hear them. They were taking advantage of dad being gone. Then I found out when there was another event at the ag center and I put two and two together that it was actually the parties going on here that I could hear the music from my house. I don’t disagree with fundraisers and special events and occasional parties. We all have those too it is just the weekend after weekend and the excessive noise. Nancy Oglesby: I apologize I wasn’t here but the door was locked upstairs so I went up to let them in. Tom Brown: What is your name please? Nancy Oglesby: Sworn in. I am a member of Maple View 2 and I live over here and like everybody here, we have enjoyed being near Maple View and we have had very good experiences with the Nutters at times and appreciate the goodness of their hearts and how much they have done for the community and I agree with all the legalese that was said from my neighborhood but at this point, in addition to giving them my support, I want to speak personally. I understand that they haven’t had tons of parties so far and they seem to think we are complaining too much about what is being done but I think we need to focus on the fact that this hearing is to decide whether or not parties can be unlimited. That is my issue. We have several times tried to negotiate with them about the number of parties and we have offered and said we wouldn’t put any opposition to a few parties and could we come to an agreement and go to the dispute settlement center. Let’s go to arbitration. Let’s compromise and come up with a number of parties we can both live with and then put that in the SUP. So if they really want to only have a couple of events outside every year, why isn’t that in the SUP or the application? I would not have even come if the application I had gotten in the mail said the ag center wants to have two outdoor parties a year. I would have said hallelujah I am not going to go because this is very stressful to have to come speak like this. That is not what it is; it is to have it every night. I have talked to friends who live near party barns and it is a really miserable experience. There are times they don’t get to sleep and they don’t get notified. They don’t know when it is going to happen and it is not fine. That is what I don’t want. I don’t understand if there is all these people talking about being neighborly and compromising, then how come when we offered to compromise, nobody wanted to compromise. How come this application does not represent a compromise? We are here, we want to compromise, please compromise with us. We are not rigid or saying we don’t want