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8 <br /> Draft <br /> 1 do any of the electricity the plumbing or any of those things. I am the grandchild that wants to keep this property in the <br /> 2 family. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Leon Meyers: Members of the Board do you have any questions for Ms. Stokes? <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Beth Bronson: Where there any other site plans that may have encroached on the encroachment, another direction, is <br /> 7 the only plan given impacts the power utility. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 Beverly Stokes: Basically, this is the only way I can go because that's 'Y2 acre and I'm only allowed 1,201 square feet to <br /> 10 use so therefore the setbacks and all that is included. It's a tiny house now because I can't get even, Duke Energy <br /> 11 wouldn't let me get the same footprint that the house is on now. They didn't allow that because the wires come <br /> 12 basically the tip of the house so I think you have to be 62 feet from the wires, so 32 on the side or something of that <br /> 13 nature of the wires. <br /> 14 <br /> 15 Beth Bronson: So they are basically saying you cannot encroach on the new development on this encroachment <br /> 16 agreement. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 Pat Mallett: They don't want any structures <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Beverly Stokes: They don't want any structures, if I leave that, I can refurbish it but if I tear it down, I can't go back on <br /> 21 them. So I want to refurbish this if I can. That's my hope to refurbish but I am not going to live in that small structure <br /> 22 but I'm going to live the bigger house. This is going to be like a shelter structure maybe a garage or something of that <br /> 23 nature. Because I don't have any other place to park my car so I need to think about parking my car so if I leave that <br /> 24 structure and just rebuild the line that to take the <br /> 25 <br /> 26 Beth Bronson: Yeah, right, to fix it up right. I just didn't understand. I didn't know if you had approached Duke Energy <br /> 27 about a site plan that might encroach or might go over the same footprint of the house and that was approved or <br /> 28 denied. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Beverly Stokes: They wouldn't let me do anything, I did approach them, when I first started, I asked the County, the <br /> 31 County had no problems, this was years ago. I don't know if the changes or somebody else, they said they had no <br /> 32 problems because the footprint would stay the same just in the same area. Duke Energy said no. They did allow and <br /> 33 then I brought to them the fact that the house had been there many years, it has to have some type of maintenance to <br /> 34 be able to live in the house and at the time my mother was still living with me and she was 90 years and people can't <br /> 35 live in what the house is like now. They have taken all this land on the side where we could have at least moved over <br /> 36 some but they wouldn't allow that but they have allowed me to use that that blue area where the septic goes, I can put a <br /> 37 new septic tank there. That is the only thing that they are letting. <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Pat Mallett: I just want to add 2 things, 1, utility power companies are generally obsessive about not having any <br /> 40 structures or obstructions so that they can go through and maintain their transmission easements. This is also done <br /> 41 and recorded at a time when, this lot predates zoning, predates everything, subdivision. There was going back to the <br /> 42 70s, 80s I believe you could do a 'Y2 acre lot and that opportunity doesn't exist so you couldn't create lot of this size and <br /> 43 configuration today. It's what we call a non-conforming lot but what she's seeking relief from is not that, it's the side set- <br /> 44 back one variance. <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Leon Meyers: Any further questions. <br /> 47 <br /> 48 Beth Bronson: No, thank you for answering the questions. <br /> 49 <br /> 6 <br />