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DRAFT -21- 1072 Claudia Harris: I have been sworn in and I live across the street also. I wonder... Mrs. Schenley 1073 mentioned that there was a type of zoning that could be done for the rural buffer area and this 1074 doesn't fit in that. Is that your understanding? 1075 1076 Michael Harvey: That is an incorrect representation of the UDO. 1077 1078 Claudia Harris: Where is the water coming from used to hose out where the dogs are? 1079 1080 Chad Abbott: A well that has been approved for the site. 1081 1082 Claudia Harris: I use well water too and I don't think I use 900 gallons a day and I was 1083 wondering if that was a realistic amount of water to expect from a well. Another option would be 1084 to pipe water down from the pond. 1085 1086 Chad Abbott: If the well ran out of water then they won't use 900 gallons a day. The cisterns 1087 will be used to supplement the well. They would be used to supplement the well and there is no 1088 guarantee that 900 gallons per day will be used. How many gallons would you use, about 500 1089 gallons per day? 1090 1091 Claudia Harris: I doubt it would be that much. 1092 1093 Chad Abbott: Most residences with three to four bedrooms have 480 gallons which is what the 1094 state requires us to use for sizing adequate systems so while they may not use 400 gallons per 1095 day, they are required to have a drainage field as a safety factor that is built into all this stuff. 1096 1097 Claudia Harris: I did not get a letter announcing this meeting. I actually found out in an email 1098 from Tammy. I didn't know until tonight that you wanted to do daily breedings. I thought it was 1099 all boarding and I was really okay with the whole thing and I found it was 90 dogs which 1100 shocked me and found out that the dogs are going to be coming and going in one day changed 1101 things for me. Our neighborhood has faced a lot of hardships. We are very close to the dump 1102 and we have had to do this thing with the trucks from Chapel Hill, the freeway, the waste 1103 transfer site and we have all faced these things as a unit and this issue is different for us and 1 1104 really hate it and it is splitting us and we have always been a really good unit fighting other 1105 things. Thank you very much. 1106 1107 Robert Long: Thank you all for being here at 9:50 p.m. This is a really important issue and it is 1108 very difficult to be here in that Cecil is a dear friend. We are so glad to have him back from 1109 Japan. As Claudia said we have always been a unit that worked together. This is really tricky 1110 and I am here on behalf of the five families who make up the Manor Hill Court Homeowner's 1111 Association. Mr. Stewart and I actually dressed alike tonight. I am a consultant and I, often 1112 right alongside what he does with acoustics, I do with building planning and I am working with 1113 him. I appreciated what he said about the benign impact to the south of this building but we had 1114 one of our homeowners who... Cecil, how far is Martha from where the fence will be from the 1115 dogs? 1116 1117 Cecil Griffin: At least 400 if not 500 feet. 1118 1119 Robert Long: Probably somewhere in that range of open land right to one of our homeowners. 1120 The rest of us live gradually and are rising so the sound, no matter what, up against the north 1121 side of the building will reflect off the dog area. To have Mr. Stewart say that, they live on large 1122 tree properties, I wonder if he actually went to our house. I question that so we are very 1123 concerned that we will have dog barking impact and the question is how do you mitigate it? 1124 What if it does happen? We are being told it won't happen but if it does happen does it mean 1125 they have to build berms? What can we do to protect ourselves at this planning date? I also OC Board of Adjustment — 5/14/2012 Page 21 of 41