The Zoning Hearing Board held a special meeting to finish out the Camel’s Hump Farm decision Oct. 15. Only about a dozen people were in the audience, including Victoria Bastidas.

Bastitdas is owner of 3.2 acres of Camel’s Hump farm and the old Johnston House. She is also caretaker of the larger 44 property that Friends of Johnston owns. Planners and lawyers had been arguing for months on whether to allow a variance for an environmental education/childcare center

The attorneys for Bastidas and the Johnson Foundation, as well as the attorney for the opposition, were not in attendance. The lawyers had previously submitted briefs for the board to review. Minutes after the meeting began, the board left the Rotunda to review the brief and deliberate.

They deliberated for 45 minutes, during which most of the audience left the rotunda. Once the board returned, three motions were made. First, to deny re-defining the term Child Care Center to Environmental Education Center. The denial was unanimously approved. Second, to deny any school year Childcare Center on the site. This denial was unanimously approved. Finally, a motion was made to allow all previous uses of the facility, as long as they did not conflict with the previous motions. This was also unanimously approved.