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landscaping; absolutely no use of chemical plant removal; using catchment water for as many
<br /> legally allowed purposes as possible. The list goes on. So I'll show you just a couple of
<br /> perspectives here just to give you a better idea of the design and just very simple space here.
<br /> This is from all sides, so this is looking out, this view will be looking out onto the ocean—okay,
<br /> I'm not sure how to go back there - - -
<br /> CARR
<br /> - -CARR SMITH: - - -
<br /> MASON:
<br /> - -MASON: - - -thank you again, and we really hope that we can see this. How important it is to
<br /> be supporting these local ag businesses, you know, they, they just can't keep getting by without
<br /> having something to supplement their income.
<br /> CARR SMITH: Thank you very much, Clair. All right, Zendo - - -wrap things up
<br /> KERN: Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.
<br /> CARR SMITH: before we go to questions?
<br /> KERN: That's perfect. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Clair. I wanted to clarify a
<br /> couple of things actually. Based on our count, there's 55 letters of support, so that should be,
<br /> have gotten to everybody by - - -the actual number of guests I think it's gotten a little bit
<br /> misconstrued, or I think this is where some fine tuning needs to occur. We do have a, you know,
<br /> the request for the higher number, but again, as she was saying, that the average is closer to, you
<br /> know, 30, 40, and the higher guest count was for actually put in there for local families that
<br /> wanted to actually have - - - so, generally - - - local weddings can be much larger - - -point of
<br /> that is is that the applicant in my discussions have been more than willing to, you know, come up
<br /> with some parameters around that to maybe rein that in a little bit, or define it greater actually
<br /> would be a better way to say it. So it's, you know, only so many events per year at that higher
<br /> number, average at lower. So there's ways to control that and mitigate that. I think that's really
<br /> important. And I think that's something that we were hoping to have done with some of the
<br /> surrounding property owners, but never had that opportunity to do so, even though we've tried
<br /> many, many of times.
<br /> And the tech that I was referring to was sound decibel meters, put sound decibel meters along the
<br /> property edge, and that can actually go back to your phone and let you know when that's risen.
<br /> What we've proposed is basically the sound decibel level at the property line of a residential use,
<br /> which agriculture is much higher. So again, you know, all of this was - - -really trying to
<br /> mitigate these issues. And the review of the CC&R documents that there is nothing in there that
<br /> we can find that create some issue regarding sound or has created an issue regarding this request.
<br /> I think the other mitigating measures that we would have in there as far as number of people,
<br /> traffic control, some, you know, some improvements, sound decibel meters, etcetera, some
<br /> improvements to maintain the roadway; these are all things that we could do to actually find a
<br /> middle ground to support a farmer, and create a good, reasonable - - - as you folks as
<br /> commissioners can see that, and hopefully can help carry on this conversation to again find a
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