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specifically state they’re supposed to come before you within 90 days prior to the expiration of a
<br />permit before they can come back to apply. This is 16 years later. They haven’t complied.
<br />You’ve got a same building with no occupany permit. It’s a dwelling. I’ve seen it. I’ve gone to
<br />the location. I’ve seen the place. There’s unpermitted plumbing, the structure is not adequate to
<br />serve their purposes. It’s not that—Susann’s not against community. Nobody’s against
<br />community, but it’s gotta be done right or else people could get hurt, and when we talk about
<br />adequate roads, it’s already been testified that Susann’s been blocked. Well, what happens in the
<br />day that Susann, in using the only road she has to get in and out of her lot, has a serious medical
<br />condition, or her husband has a serious medical condition, or somebody in the neighborhood
<br />whose also only access is those roads, has a serious medical condition, and they’re blocked. And
<br />now you’re gonna add up to a hundred people with inadequate parking and parking spaces that
<br />don’t meeting County Code. They’re in violation of County Code, and their permit that was
<br />granted to them in 1995 states as a condition, that they’re to comply with all the County Code
<br />regulations, State laws. They’ve gotta comply with the rules just like everybody else,
<br />particularly if they’re going to take on a special use. And the special use they’re asking for today
<br />isn’t just to reaffirm a lapsed permit. It’s also to add on to additional uses. The farmers market
<br />is just one of ‘em. That’s the thing we’re talking about the most. They’re also saying that they
<br />wanna have other community activities there—dance classes, karate, kung fu—they want to have
<br />a lot of activities there. That’s fine, but just plan for it adequately. Come back with the permit,
<br />up to 2014 standards, that is going to make sure that the needs of the community and the health
<br />and safety and general welfare of the people in that Association are addressed and protected.
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<br />So, you, you know, there’s, it says when the Association became aware of a need for Special Use
<br />Permit, an application was submitted to legitimize the building’s continued use as a community
<br />center. The Building Department has already stated that the building itself is not, has not
<br />received a certificate of occupancy so the use of a dwelling as a community center is a violation.
<br />So, they found that it’s an actually a violation to use that building in the way it is. So, its
<br />continued use as a community center ought not be legitimized. It ought to be updated. My
<br />understanding is that the Association has the fund and the resources to make these
<br />improvements. Susann can attest to that. So, if you give them this permit, they are not going to
<br />make these improvements. They haven’t. It’s just not demonstrated over 16 years that they’ve
<br />made the improvements that were specified in the original permit application. But if you make
<br />them, you deny the permit, and you make them come back for one, maybe at that point, they’ll
<br />decide to go forward because at that time, you are also enforcing the rules and the things that we
<br />all, everybody else has to comply with. If you don’t, they’ll just—there’s no reason for them to
<br />change the way that they use that place. None at all. Again, between the time that they got the
<br />warning letter for the farmers market, the time that they got this letter from the Building
<br />Department in November 2013, the only thing that they did, and it was because Susann brought
<br />it to their attention at the February meeting of this year, they took the electrical out, the
<br />unpermitted electrical out of the firehouse. That’s it. So, I think if you grant this permit, this is
<br />going to continue to be a problem, and you could have more problems.
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<br />TITA: I see this, your—
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<br />HENKEL: Excuse me—
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