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My name is Sidney Mirsky

Together with my wife, Helen, we have owned our 29 acres since 1988 and we have farmed it each year consistently since then.

We want to live on our property but have been denied that under the old law.

Under Measure 37 I filed for a single family dwelling and both the State and the County finally approved our claim about two or three weeks before the November elections.

Measure 49 has put a stop to our claim and so we have not been permitted to build our house on our property.

We still await the 49 determination and we are hopeful that this will occur in the near future.

Every property that abuts onto our property has a house on it.
Ours is the only farm that does not have a farm dwelling on it.
All we want is permission to build one house on our farm.

We really would like to live on our farm and we hope that the permission will be granted soon.

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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