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GIFFIN: Thank you. Commissioners? All right. Thank you. You may step back. Will the
<br />applicants please come forward again. Commissioners, if you take a look at Page 6 of the
<br />recommendation that was prepared for us by the planners, Pages 6 and 7 are the conditions of what
<br />the Director has proposed. And, let’s see, Daryn or, yeah, Daryn, I have -. Commissioners, any
<br />questions of the recommendation and/or the conditions? As stated earlier, the Director has
<br />recommended approval with conditions. And it is those conditions that I refer everyone to,
<br />especially on Page 7. Daryn, Condition No. 4, “Prior to commencing the bed and breakfast
<br />operation, the applicants shall secure all required building permits and complete all required
<br />improvements necessary to accommodate the 4-unit bed and breakfast operation within the single
<br />family dwelling complex.” Are there some outstanding permits that have not been completed?
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<br />ARAI: We do note that the Real Property Tax Division records show quite a number of building
<br />permits for not only the construction of the home in the mid-1980’s, if I remember correctly, as well
<br />as the addition and for the implements thereon. But we do note that, as you can see from some of
<br />the photographs, there have maybe been some improvements I’m not, we are not too sure, we can’t
<br />validate it at this time. There was also in the background report, if you read through it carefully,
<br />there was reference to two single family dwellings on the property. The applicants, you know, there
<br />was some questions about that, the applicants provided an updated site plan, which showed that it is
<br />actually one single family dwelling, which is the main complex, and the other one is like an
<br />agricultural building. So we just want to make sure that any uses established on the property, that
<br />proper permits are taken out to legitimize it, and that is why you see the condition there. That is
<br />basically to provide assurance that operationally the B&B will be conducted with the proper
<br />governmental approvals.
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<br />GIFFIN: Okay. And then your condition, or, I’m sorry, the Director’s Condition No. 5, would that
<br />also include the Department of Health’s concern regarding cesspools?
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<br />ARAI: That is correct. And if I’m not mistaken, Condition No. 2 also speaks directly to the proper
<br />wastewater disposal system, because the Department of Health has informed us, I think it was five
<br />bedrooms per cesspool, and they are proposing, they have six, so that actually already exceeds, so
<br />they are going to have to upgrade their wastewater system to a septic type of system, and they’ve
<br />indicated their desire to do that.
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<br />GIFFIN: Applicants, so you are obviously very aware of all of the conditions that the Director is
<br />proposing. And judging by what you have said earlier, and the wonderful endorsement from the
<br />community, is there anything else you would like to add?
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<br />COX: Chairman, just to address the couple of those points, we -.
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<br />GIFFIN: Could you please state your name?
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<br />COX: David Cox, sorry. So we have engaged a plumber to take care of the backflow preventer,
<br />and hopefully, that should be installed by next week. He was taking out the permits this week to do
<br />that undertaking. Yesterday we met with an engineer for the septic tank installation, so that has
<br />begun, and hopefully, within two to three weeks, that should be taken care of. So those two big
<br />items are we think under control. We don’t believe that we need any other permits. We haven’t
<br />done any renovations or such to the rooms other than redecorating, things like we took the carpets
<br />out of one of the, or two of the suites and put hardwood floor, we retiled the bathrooms, new
<br />fittings, some more fittings, things like that; so no major work needed to be done other than
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