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16 1 Amanda Godwin: It has not been built yet so I cannot, I don't think anybody can. Even an appraiser, if he's going to say, 2 you know, nobody's home is going to be devalued,you can go online and look at,you know, coast to coast lawsuits about 3 pickleball and how nobody wants to buy a house next to a pickleball court even people who play pickleball do not want to 4 buy a house next to a pickleball court. And I don't have to be an expert to be able to read that. 5 6 Jeff Scott: I'm not asking you to be an expert. I'm asking you if you have spoken with any experts or do you have any 7 documentation from anyone else who would substantiate what you're claiming? 8 9 Amanda Godwin: I do not. With the way you worded that, I do not. 10 11 Jeff Scott: Then I guess the other thing is in the applicant's materials which are publicly available,they have completed 12 these traffic analysis patterns,all these studies which again y'all understand are very complex and they're complicated. 13 But, you know, again the burden of proof is to show that your evidence or anybody else's evidence, you know, is different 14 than what they have found professionally or from some sort of evidence standpoint. So that would be my question to you is 15 have you reviewed their findings and how do you disagree with those to establish that standing? 16 17 Amanda Godwin: I can give you an example right now. They have, and I'm sorry I do not speak well. I'm gonna shake. 18 19 Leon Meyers: Ms. Godwin,just a reminder, excuse me for interrupting,just a reminder that your testimony should address 20 specifically how you qualify as a witness with standing. 21 22 Amanda Godwin: I was answering his question. He asked what I had. And I have an example. And it's talking about this 23 signal at 70 and Lawrence Road, 70 alternate and Lawrence Road. And it says it has been identified as a potential 24 improvement at this location recently NCDOT has indicated that the all-way stop is expected to continue to provide for safe 25 operations to meet Orange County LIDO requirements. The traffic signal is shown in the built improvement scenarios; 26 however, it is not anticipated to be installed with this development. So they recognized a need, put a picture of it in their 27 graph with no intentions of it ever being put in. They only put the picture in there to meet the requirements of the UDO. 28 29 Leon Meyers:And do you have evidence that that piece of the traffic impact analysis would have a negative impact on your 30 property value? 31 32 Amanda Godwin: If it makes it difficult for say potential homebuyers to even get to my property they're not going to buy my 33 property. 34 35 Leon Meyers:And do you have evidence to that effect that you can show? 36 37 Amanda Godwin: As a homebuyer, yeah, I know what people look for and what if you can't get to a house to see it to buy it, 38 then you're not going to buy it. 39 40 Jeff Scott: I think,you know,to your point, it's not just an engineer. If it's a real estate appraisal person, a real estate 41 expert. You know, again, I think to some degree that's what you're getting at is,you know, have you consulted with 42 somebody as a professional for them to provide the documentation,you know, to prove that,you know,your property would 43 be negatively affected by the development. And that's what we need. 44 45 Amanda Godwin: I don't need an expert to tell me that. 46 47 Adam Beeman: But that's what we need. That's what we need. We need that in order for you to get standing. So if you 48 don't have that expert testimony then that's the problem. 49 50 Beth Bronson: I disagree with that. 51 52 Amanda Godwin: I am the expert testimony because I am an expert of the area just from experience. 53 54 Leon Meyers:We need a motion so that Board can decide on standing for Ms. Godwin. 55