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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 19 of 86 <br />1 2 3 <br />4 <br />5 6 7 <br />8 <br />9 10 11 <br />12 <br />13 14 15 <br />16 <br />17 18 19 <br />20 <br />21 22 23 <br />24 <br />25 26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />53 54 <br />Tony Whitaker: I would go back to the previous comments made regarding floor area. There is an existing structure that will <br />be moved so the property has more than the existing house foot print. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: A barn? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: A barn that is a substantial structure that will be taken away. There is a foundation for an existing, what <br />used to be a silo, that silo is gone and we will take that foundation out. There are more things happening on the property <br />right now other than the house that will be taken away. Your question about the house is a very good one. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: I don’t think we have talked about that but in the application there is talk about how he is going to mitigate…. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: He is not going to mitigate because he is not going to have any impact on the stream buffer to mitigate. <br />Regarding the stream buffer, we are striking a line to say this stream buffer is off limits. We are not going to get into it with <br />clearing activities or grading activities or impervious surfaces or buildings. In fact, we are going to keep our fenced area for <br />that outdoor fenced area not right up on the edge of it but several feet away from it. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: What about the dog’s do-do and other things in the stream buffer. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Yes. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: What about that. Let’s say the dogs go out there to do their business and it starts to rain, how will that not get <br />into the stream buffer? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Mr. Lonsway has committed in the application to scooping all the solid waste. That is a part of the <br />application. You know, I suppose there is wildlife that will traverse that stream buffer and answer the call of nature and I <br />don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. In terms of harmony in the neighborhood, if one of the allowable uses of the <br />stream buffer is to let your dog walk it so if Mr. Lonsway was a private residence and he didn’t not have a commercial activity <br />in the county, his personal dogs could defecate in the stream buffer without any concern or any consequence so this <br />application holds him to a higher standard. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: One other thing you said was this facility was 180 feet from the Southerland’s home. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Approximately. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: How close is this big building? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: I don’t have that number but I can approximate that. It is about 115 feet. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: I guessed 115 feet. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: A little bit more. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: That is considerably closer than 180 feet. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: To the storage building. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: I have a couple of questions on the noise issue. I need my counterpart. For expediency, Mr. Blake will testify <br />on behalf of the Southerland’s. Or I can ask the question. <br /> <br />Jeffrey Schmitt: Do you have any redirect? <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Depends on what he has, I don’t have any right now. <br /> <br />Jeffrey Schmitt: Based on the questions, you have nothing now.