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Approved 11/14/2011 OC Board of Adjustment – 6/13/2011 Page 7 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 evening got to the letter Nancy Oglesby sent out and I understand her concerns and I know the Nutters themselves have a little regret about bringing in domestic use and they are desperately trying to find a way to change that. Sometimes you learn when you are in process you don’t know ahead of time, what’s the normal ride. I really wish that the neighbor’s on Green Rise have the experience we are having in the other two parts of the Maple View subdivision because we have really been creating a neighbor and we are adapting. Things haven’t always gone smoothly and we learn to work it out and we have a beautiful neighborhood. During this period, when John was dying, I had the support of the neighborhood. Most especially the Nutters showed up without an invitation, they showed up and really supported us so these people who live on Green Rise Road spend even half of the energy they have spent on pursuit of this compliant on gratitude and the great privilege of living on such a place as the Maple View Farm. Whatever way it finds to sustain itself and express itself in the community, I am really sad there seems to be such a lack of some attention on the grace of getting to live there in that beautiful place, looking over that pond. There are some extenuating circumstances here. The Nutters quite innocently, did not intend or any prior knowledge about what they needed to know and perhaps some failure of the Orange county staff to provide enough guidance and clarification about what they were going to do with this place. They simply did not know what was going to be required. I think they had a hope that they could do it all with education and then with the economic downturn, the schools were not able to provide as much of what they thought was going to be in place to support them. Not their fault, nobody’s fault… just the reality. I also want to point out that I periodically walk over to the ag center and I frequently hear the next door neighbor playing the accordion or banjo and it is very loud. It is right next door but I don’t hear anybody complaining about the music right next door in the evening at sunset. It is like why this focus on one thing that doesn’t seem to apply somewhere else. I remember when we were here last time; there was a lot about the laws. It is really a hard place because what the law is and what is fair just isn’t always quite the same and I don’t know what to do about that. I think we are here again looking for fair and just. If the neighbors were to pursue a lawsuit in this case, that further demonstrates that this is not about the community it is more about what of self-interest. If we are here about protecting the citizens of Orange County, then I really would like to ask to please support the Nutters in continuing to provide the services they have been serving through their entire life than has been about nothing but community. Nothing about the benefit of anybody but Orange County. Not about self-service but community. I will say too that as a community organizer and event coordinator, there are very few places available to do wedding services and things like that. I saw the list and some of them are no longer functioning or they are small and I know they are almost all booked months in advance. We are desperately in need of places, camp retreat centers, to hold all kinds of events for the benefit of the larger community so please allow the Nutters to sustain the continuation of their vision. The vision they have been providing to Orange County for their entire life here that will last long beyond any of us into future generations. Susan Walser: I have been sworn in. I am here tonight with my husband, Bill Walser… we live on Western Park Lane which is right off Dotson’s Crossroads. We have been part of the Maple View community for 15 years. I have known Mr. and Mrs. Nutter for many, many years and I have known Allison Nichols for several years. We are amazed how the Nutters give to our community and we think the ag center supports the community in many ways. I agree with Marilee McTigue that noise happens and building happens. My husband and I built our house 15 years ago; we built next to 300 acres of vacant land. We now live next to the Pickard Mount Eco Institute. In fact, our land borders next to their garden. I can stand in my kitchen and see their place and many, many weekend nights, I can stand on my front porch or back deck and hear music from their events. I can hear their drums. I feel blessed that I can be so close to those events and be so involved in that institute and what they do for the community. I also feel blessed that I can be so close to the Nutters and what they do for the community via Maple View Farms and the ag center. I hope you can see the benefit they provide the community and take that into account in your decisions. Ross Poore: I have worked on Robert Nutter’s farm, I worked in the milk plant for over 10 years and since Muffin died I have been helping out with the ag center . For over 40 years, he has lived in this community and given himself to the community more than anybody has ever done to my knowledge in this community except to help people and he has bent over backwards for the people to try to appease them with concerns they have had and I just don’t understand it. Personally, I think it is much to do about nothing. And there are a couple of other things. There are a couple of things about a couple of people that aren’t here; Joan who designed and constructed the building at the ag center had basically the same vision as Bob’s daughter, Muffin, to have something to benefit the children in this community and it is a wonderful vision you have. If you could see th e letters of the children… parents and teachers have written to the ag center thanking Allison and Susan for the things they have learned and the fun they had learning. John Soehner: I have been sworn in. I farm at the agricultural center. It is a five acre plot in a pretty nice fence. I notice a