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7 Draft <br /> 1 Steve Staten: I feel the same way as Tamera answered. <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Leon Meyers: I'm sorry, I didn't hear. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Steve Staten: She said we need time to get an expert witness to fulfill that responsibility, because without it, <br /> 6 okay, this is what it just feels like. Okay? I deal with conflict and crisis professionally, that's my <br /> 7 living. This feels like a wave just came at us without the ability to be prepared. The statement that <br /> 8 it makes as a newcomer to North Carolina is that somebody can make a move in a neighborhood <br /> 9 really, really quick, be really, really shrewd and there's nothing we can do about it if we didn't check <br /> 10 all the boxes in preparation. I mean, that's what it looks like. I'm not, this is not me, about you. I'm <br /> 11 not saying you're doing anything wrong. This is what it feels like in our neighborhood. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Leon Meyers: Understand. It sounds like, do you feel like you need to talk further with your neighbors in order to <br /> 14 make a decision about to move forward, Mr. Staten? <br /> 15 <br /> 16 Steve Staten: 5 minutes? Okay. Great. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 Leon Meyers: Certainly. <br /> 19 <br /> 20 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT BREAKS FOR 5 MINUTES <br /> 21 <br /> 22 Leon Meyers: Folks, if you can, let's go ahead and get back to moving the hearing forward here. Mr. Staten, go <br /> 23 ahead. <br /> 24 <br /> 25 Steve Staten: So, I have a question and then we're going to ask at least two people to step from the expertise <br /> 26 related question. So, what if the experience of a neighbor directly adjacent to the field has a <br /> 27 personal experience such as a golf ball coming from one of the two properties nearly hitting a <br /> 28 resident or their child or whatever. Can a personal experience of oh, this is not good, be counted <br /> 29 as expertise or does it have to be lawyers and real estate people and finance? What's an expert? <br /> 30 <br /> 31 Leon Meyers: It goes back to demonstrating special damages, which is a term of art in the statute, but it has to be <br /> 32 substantiated by competent, material, and substantial evidence. So, if a neighbor saw a ball land <br /> 33 in his or her yard and consider that dangerous in some way then that's something the board would <br /> 34 hear in the process in determining standing for that witness. <br /> 35 <br /> 36 Steve Staten: Okay. I'm not 100 percent sure how to navigate all that. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Leon Meyers: I understand. It's not obvious. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Steve Staten: I'm going to have two residents step up and introduce themselves that are in the real estate world <br /> 41 and are very competent in that space. We know that because one of them represented the <br /> 42 property owner that we just bought from. So, please hear from them. I believe they're going to <br /> 43 appeal for a continuation. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Leon Meyers: Okay. You state your name, please. <br /> 46 <br /> 47 Michael Hugelmeyer: Good evening, everyone, my name is Michael Hugelmeyer. I work with Keller Williams Realty <br /> 48 in Chapel Hill. I have sold five properties on Holly Creek Lane and I'm also a resident. I am <br /> 49 requesting based on my expertise, not only in all of western Chapel Hill but also in the triangle that <br /> 50 you give us a continuation so we can formulate what it is that we can gather in order in order to <br /> 7 <br />