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20 Draft <br /> 1 Beth Bronson: We discussed it. <br /> 2 <br /> 3 MOTION was made by Jeff Scott. Seconded by Kyle Myers. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 VOTE: 4-1. Beth Bronson opposed. <br /> 6 <br /> 7 Leon Meyers: All right, Ms. Strack, thank you for being here. Ken Davidson. Is Ken Davidson here? <br /> 8 Mr. Davidson please come forward. You may have heard all that you care to hear about <br /> 9 standing tonight, but I think I'm going to ask you please to direct your comments specifically <br /> 10 toward using competent material and substantial evidence to show how you may suffer special <br /> 11 damages to qualify for, as a person with standing to participate in the hearing. <br /> 12 Ken Davidson: Yes, sir. Eleanor. How you doing? I've talked with her quite a bit. We've talked about the <br /> 13 road. We've talked about a lot, a lot of things. My big thing is there's a lot of traffic in and out. <br /> 14 There's a lot of dust. It damages my fruit trees. When she first started it was three of them <br /> 15 that should have never had a farm before. I mean, she got goats. She let them run free. <br /> 16 They ate her trees. They ate my trees, but like I told her, I can't prove it, even though I saw <br /> 17 your goat eating the trees, I can't prove your goat killed my trees as opposed to that deer that <br /> 18 came up the night before, but there's, the issue here is going to be whether a business really <br /> 19 should be put in the middle of a residential neighborhood, and that being said, I mean, you're <br /> 20 talking about between 30 to 50 cars a day going in and then coming out and then leaving for <br /> 21 lunch, and they coming back again, and although I believe in what she's doing, which I really <br /> 22 do. I really do. I believe what she's doing. I've told her that before, but I just don't think that <br /> 23 putting a business in the middle of a residential neighborhood is really the best thing to do. <br /> 24 <br /> 25 Leon Meyers: I understand, Mr. Davidson. May I ask you why you believe you qualify as a person with <br /> 26 standing to participate in tonight's hearing? <br /> 27 <br /> 28 Ken Davidson: That's one of the reasons. The other reason is like I said, these people coming in and out, <br /> 29 and I understand where they're coming from, they, they don't, really don't care. They're <br /> 30 coming in. They're leaving. They don't care. They don't care if the road is tore up. They <br /> 31 don't care if it's got bumps on it. You know, they, and it's just like she doesn't live there either, <br /> 32 and I'm not saying she doesn't care, but I'm saying if it was anybody else, and somebody <br /> 33 came to their property and put a business beside of their property, and they had 40 or 50 cars <br /> 34 coming in and out, speeding, speeding, would they want to call the police and say there's a <br /> 35 crazy person running up and down the driveway, man. <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Leon Meyers: Thank you, sir. Board members, any questions for Mr. Davidson regarding his standing, his <br /> 38 position as a person with standing in tonight's hearing? <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Beth Bronson: Have you brought any document where you've experienced that? <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Ken Davidson: I can't understand you. Say again. <br /> 43 <br /> 44 Beth Bronson: Do you, have you brought any documentation with you tonight that would provide in evidence <br /> 45 to the effect of like, like loss of fruit trees and or a police report for people on your property, <br /> 46 trespassing? No. Okay. <br /> 47 <br /> 48 Ken Davidson: Like I said the people coming in and out,they coming and going, and I don't blame them they, <br /> 49 they don't care what the road looks like. They're just coming into that business, and then <br /> 50 they're leaving, and that's, that's my whole point. <br /> 20 <br />