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hamper our activities. Raising piggery, you know, what if the kids want to raise pigs or <br />something like that? Oh, the smell. We have to listen to complaints all the time. That’s like, <br />wow, this is farm land, you know. You know, dogs -. <br />BOWMAN: But you’re allowed to do it. <br />BRANCO: We’re allowed to do it, yeah, we can do it. Yeah. <br />BOWMAN: Yes. <br />BRANCO: We can raise chickens right there, roosters. But we have to be considerate, <br />you know, I mean, sometimes. But, anyway, I’m just looking at the whole picture. <br />BOWMAN: Thank you. <br />BRANCO: Sure. <br />ALAMEDA: Mr. Chair? <br />WOODWARD: Commissioner Alameda. <br />ALAMEDA: Thank you, Mr. Branco, for coming today. Just to summarize the <br />differences in the testimony, just so I make sure I’ve got it correct, Mr. Azevedo suggested that <br />he would be for the project because of its affordability to residents who are looking for a <br />property to live. And so his testimony suggested that he didn’t mind it being half an acre or one <br />acre, and in fact half acre would give enough elbow room, he said, to do both. <br />Your testimony is suggesting that, you know, you’ve been living there for a long time for <br />generations back, you’ve got family there, you’ve got livestock, chickens, you spray. I mean you <br />basically have a farm lot; and you’re concerned about, you know, neighbors, many of them. <br />They could be complaining about the spray, the livestock, this and this, and you’d just like kind <br />of want to prevent the whole thing cause it will put a damper on how you live and the quality of <br />life that you guys grew up with. Is that correct? <br />BRANCO: Correct. <br />ALAMEDA: So, you know, the last time you mentioned, I think it was maybe <br />Ms. Azevedo that mentioned, your sister mentioned the idea of possibly one acre as a <br />compromise. But what I’m hearing you say is that even one acre is kind of too much already? <br />BRANCO: Yeah. <br />ALAMEDA: Okay, got ‘um. <br />WOODWARD: Commissioner Domingo. <br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I understand it, Mr. Branco, with the laws <br />that we have governing the land uses, you have an agricultural parcel right now and in the event <br />12 <br /> <br />