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Support for demolition • Testimony and photographic documentation of structural timbers of the barn after dismantling from former owner, Tim Sokol (who will be present at the meeting). • I am awaiting testimony from a structural engineer. I hope to have the info prior to your application submission deadline. If not, I would like to request allowance to either bring a report to the meeting or have him as a guest that night. • Conversation with property neighbors Dale and Pam Weaver (12336 Rocky Ridge Tr,Granger IN 46530) — neighbor states that as soon as the barn was removed, their outbuilding was infested with carpenter ants and was destroyed within a year. • HPC inspection record (I don't have copies) indicates concern for the foundation as well. Dispute with HPC records • The report indicates that the barn was dismantled in a manner to allow it to be reassembled. The process of dismantling the barn was in fact NOT in a manner suitable for reassembling as evidenced in actual HPC file photos. Support for the stewardship of barn removal materials • Repurposing barn wood on site: some of the barn wood has been repurposed to build an Amish -style dining table in the grand dining room of the main home, and a mantle in over the fireplace of the outbuilding called the summer kitchen • Repurposing boulders on site: the pile of rock boulders have been reassembled in a manner similar to the barn's original foundation, in order to form a retaining wall for the green space that now exists where the barn had been • Garage barn restoration: it is presumed that part of the conditions for CoA would be to restore the garage barn in the style of the original structure. This has been completed in like manner.