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Draft 12.9.19 <br />5 <br />Robert Hall: Robert Douglas Hall Jr., my address is 1019 US Highway 70 W. in Hillsborough. 1 <br />2 <br />Constance Lowe: How long have you been living at that address? 3 <br />4 <br />Robert Hall: Pretty much all my life. My mother’s house is on the same property where I grew up, and then I moved 5 <br />over to the farmland. We built a house on the farmland; I’ve been there almost 60 years.6 <br />7 <br />Constance Lowe: How large is your land? 8 <br />9 <br />Robert Hall: The land is close to four acres. 10 <br />11 <br />Constance Lowe: When did you get the idea of putting up a large flag on your property? 12 <br />13 <br />Robert Hall: When they started trying to do away with history and decided to take the Confederate memorial letters off 14 <br />of the library. My land is private property, and I can put a memorial on my private property if they were going to do 15 <br />away with that to remember our history and ancestors that fell and died in that war. 16 <br />17 <br />Constance Lowe: When you decided where to put the flag, what motivated you to put it where you did, besides the 18 <br />setback restrictions? 19 <br />20 <br />Robert Hall: You have the setback restrictions on there and there is a pond. I had to stay out of the wet area and this 21 <br />through here is where the water flows through into that pond. 22 <br />23 <br />Constance Lowe: I am going to hold this up so they can see which page we are talking about. He’s talking about this 24 <br />first graphic page I believe first page of Exhibit 1. 25 <br />26 <br />Robert Hall: I had to stay out of the setback. The lines that they drew are my setback as to where I could put the flag. I 27 <br />did the $30 fee to do a lot assessment to determine where my septic tank is. The septic tank is in the front of the house 28 <br />and the line runs down to the pasture, so that is the best spots on the property to put the flag to stay out of the wetland. 29 <br />30 <br />Constance Lowe: So this corner down here? 31 <br />32 <br />Robert Hall: Yes, ma’am. 33 <br />34 <br />Barry Katz: We can’t see that. 35 <br />36 <br />Constance Lowe: Here’s his house. His septic field runs down to here. The area here is pasture land and a pond. 37 <br />38 <br />Barry Katz: Where’s the flag? 39 <br />40 <br />Constance Lowe: The flag is right in here. He is saying this was the best place to put it. 41 <br />42 <br />Barry Katz: It was just too low to see. 43 <br />44 <br />Constance Lowe: When did the flag go up? 45 <br />46 <br />Robert Hall: It was April 28. 47 <br />48 <br />Constance Lowe: 2018? 49 <br />50 <br />