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21 Approved 11/5/14 people within 500 feet of the property, if you extend that to 1000 feet you would quite frankly only have captured 20 or 30 additional properties owners. Some of which were there because of the advertising signs we had put out at the property. Tony Blake: I invite people to do the research and look and see roughly how many notices you actually sent out on these in the rural areas. I think you'll see it 2, 3, 4 people. Michael Harvey: I don't dispute that there are situations where you have areas with large properties where even a 1000 feet wouldn't make much difference. Tony Blake: I understand that registered mail is a cost. It seems to me like there could be other ways to communicate. Those are my comments. Michael Harvey: Ok Paul Guthrie: I want to go the other way, I think the bigger problem may be in urbanizing areas in terms of the costs. I thought about our house and it is on a less than one acre lot and under the 500 foot rule, everywhere except one location you'd pick up maybe 6 or 8 maybe 10 houses. Right across from us is a condominium with about 25 units. So to do anything that requires a Special Use Permit, the homeowner would maybe need 35 registered letters. I can conceive of this in a larger or fringe of an urban area having a high density property of one property among many others that could raise the costs for the applicant significantly. I am a little concerned about what that does to the small, not to the large corporate well - financed organization, but the small organization that for one reason or another needs a Special Use Permit. Assuming it is compatible with the general character of the neighborhood, having to spend that money. Michael Harvey: Again, Mr. Blake is not incorrect and you're not incorrect either. There are pros and cons to both sides of the equation. Bryant Warren: I noticed in the past when you get ready to do something there are signs put up all around the neighborhood and area, even if we stick with the 500 feet that should be sufficient enough especially if you continue putting the signs up. Laura Nicholson: Not to belabor the point, but isn't there a way to just conditionally make it 500 feet for an urban area but as a rural area make it larger? That way it's not changing the whole fabric, could you change it depending on.. Michael Harvey: I don't know how comfortable I would be with that because that gives greater utility to a Class 2 Kennel for example locating in one area in the County versus another area in the County. I think that I'm going to err on the side of caution and treat all applicants the same. Pete Hallenbeck: Actually, I'll comment on that, we seem to run into this problem a lot that we almost need a settled density function. Something that tells you how dense is this and that is used as criteria for notification area. The problem with that is you can argue over a number, you can argue over a function and whatever you come up with people putting up kennels will gain the system to do what they want. It's one of those difficult problems that never have a right answer. Craig Benedict: As part of our discussion more recently about the use of technology and how to get information out to people different than the mailings, definitely the signs on the property so we are going to start putting our application out there. Evidently there'll be some mapping and that could be with that and people will see the signs and be able to look on line to see what's happening. I think we'll use technology, even the statutes are saying that how we advertise is being liberalized to include media. Pete Hallenbeck: Tony you talked about a sample window. 2