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ALAMEDA: Okay. Anything else to add before -? This is kind of their opening
<br />argument, if you will. Seeing nothing, intervenor, do you have anything else to say that we
<br />didn’t hear already?
<br />FARWELL: I do have a vacation rental on the property. It was -, when we pulled the
<br />permit back in 1990, the idea was to have two. The economy here crashed. The other half of the
<br />complex downstairs is our certified kitchen. So, to be honest with you, my wife loves the guests
<br />and I can’t stand them. It basically boils down to a restriction on what I can do around the place
<br />when the guests are there, and it’s a follow-over to the same issue with Michael. With five
<br />bedrooms, each I’m assuming going for a considerable sum on a daily basis, you can expect one
<br />person or more are there almost all the time. So the idea that there would only be occasional
<br />issues, I think, is erroneous.I consider this basically would be an ongoing harassment issue.
<br />Although I know they are trying to be accommodating and all of that, but basically it boils down
<br />to the fact that these are hypotheticals and the reality is that my farm and my business are there
<br />right now and I don’t want anything to threaten them.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay. Commissioner McCall?
<br />MCCALL: So you do have a vacation rental on your five-acre parcel.
<br />FARWELL: Well, we have a room downstairs and my wife hooked up a link on our
<br />webpage and so forth, but we haven’t rented it out in months. It’s at best a part-time, I mean, we
<br />have two farms, a husking business, a shredding business and our mac nut business, so having
<br />time for a bed and breakfast or a vacation rental is, you know, between midnight and four. So, to
<br />be honest with you, I wish it would go away, but I can’t be telling my wife.
<br />ALAMEDA: Commissioner McCall, any follow-up?
<br />MCCALL: No, thanks.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay. This is still questions for the applicant, I mean, for the intervenor.
<br />After the intervenor, we’ll go to the Department, and then we’ll work our way back and we’ll
<br />have the applicant have the last say, if you will. Any other questions for the intervenor? Oh, go
<br />ahead, Director Yuen, do you have something?
<br />YUEN: I thought that we were -. The procedure would be that they would simply
<br />make, everybody would simply make a brief opening statement, then everybody would present
<br />their testimony. And at that point, typically, the Commission does not ask questions during an
<br />opening statement, and they would wait for, actually, testimony where people present what they
<br />factually have to say about it. And then there would be a closing argument.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay, we could do that. That’s good. Is that okay with the Commission?
<br />I mean, that’s the usual protocol so -. Anything else to add, Mr. Farwell, in your opening
<br />comments?
<br />FARWELL: No.
<br />ALAMEDA: Okay. Mr. Director, anything from the County’s end?
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