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Approved 11/14/2011 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 6/13/2011 Page 15 of 44 <br /> <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 />53 <br />54 <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: That is what is being alleged and I will respond to that in staff comments. <br /> <br />Tom Brown: Any further questions from the board? <br /> <br />Larry Wright: This is questions to whom? <br /> <br />Tom Brown: For the opposition right now, we are about to go into rebuttal. <br /> <br />Mike Parker: Let me point out since last October we have essentially operated because of the appeal of the decision without <br />any limits and this is the quote unquote party barn. This is what happened with the party barn since last October. We are <br />responsible, the Nutters live next to the ag center. Those decibel limits apply whether there is a special use permit that allows <br />you to have parties or not so I think that point is moot. Mr. Hartford said he had a point that he would like to make so I would <br />like to call him up. <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Mr. Hartford did sign in but he was not sworn. <br /> <br />Robert Hartford: Sworn in. I will be brief. A number of you know me. I developed Maple View 1, I developed Maple View 2. I <br />was a contractor for the ice cream company. I was participated in the pasteurization plant. I sold a lot of you the pieces of <br />land you are living on in Maple View. To be brief, when I met Robert Nutter, he was dairy farmer. The farm operated in a <br />completely different fashion. He wasn’t as happy a farmer as he is now. He approached me because he was thinking about <br />not farming. I just like to take a chance to remind all of you that the reason you like to live where you are is that when you <br />drive onto Dairyland Road, you see that rolling green; you see the land open up. You look at those tracks of land and said, I <br />want to live there. I want a piece of that. My history with the Nutters is that the cows couldn’t preserve that. There had to be <br />other activities in order to maintain what you see and love so much. And over time, those activities have been different things. <br />One of those activities was creating the tracts you live on. Another was the Maple View Ice Cream Company. Things change. <br />You all bought that property and said I got my little piece I don’t want a thing to change. There is only one way to keep it there <br />and that is to let the Nutters preserve it. The cows aren’t enough to do it. It takes a wide variety of activity. The ag center is <br />one of those activities, right or wrong, who knows, but things have changed a lot. The Nutters have chosen to keep Dairyland <br />Road out there. I can tell you first hand you could be riding over that hill and see a subdivision or a bunch of cul-de-sacs and <br />it would be just like living in the place you moved out of to get there. <br /> <br />Mike Parker: I am glad to hear them say they have no problems with the farm. One of the complaints we had before was <br />about the pump the gentleman mentioned earlier and I would point out that Mr. Nutter basically offered the homeowner’s <br />association the opportunity to construct a pump house over that pump which they never did. I get the impression that we have <br />been unwilling to cooperate with them. The Board of Adjustment is the appropriate authority on what we can and cannot do <br />on that site and that is why we are here. We just want to clarify that what we have been doing is what we would like to <br />continue to do on the property. The Nutters have lived in Orange County since 1963. They have been a real blessing and it <br />was a very fortunate day when Allison’s father and Charles Snipes’ grandfather, Charles and his brother happen to run into <br />the Nutters at a farm sale in South Hill Virginia and tell them about a dairy that was for sale in Orange County because <br />otherwise they would not have come to Orange County and they have been a great blessing to this county since they moved <br />here and it is unfortunate since then that almost all the dairy farms have disappeared from Orange County. Most of the <br />farmers couldn’t afford to milk cows and make a living. What they ended up doing was selling land to support the milking habit <br />and eventually that didn’t work anymore so they stopped milking all together. Farmland is disappearing left and right. I was <br />fortunate enough to grow up on a farm in Northern Orange County and I wake up every morning and wonder why I still own <br />that farmland because it does not pay its own taxes anymore unless you farm it yourself. There are people who love it <br />enough to want it to look at. One of the great things about riding out Dairyland Road, if you go back to 1969 the first time I <br />went to court Bob Nutter’s daughter, it looks pretty much like it did then. There are not many places you can say that. We are <br />just asking to let us use that ag center for a few extra bucks. It is not going to be a party barn and has not been a party barn. <br />We are still subject to ordinances for noise so just give us the special use permit. <br /> <br />Larry Wright: Going over this list and looking at Maple View Agricultural Center Log 2009 to present. You said that this has <br />been used like you will be using it in the future, right? <br />