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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 21 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 />Rob Maitland: It looks like you tried to anticipate the sound issues as much as you can. What about people leaving the <br />doors or doing things that leave things unsound proof. Is there any way to mandate that? Or have you considered that? Do <br />the doors automatically shut? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: These are preliminary drawings; they are not construction ready drawings so some of that detailing has not <br />yet been applied. We have taken the application much further than the standard application requirement of merely showing <br />elevations. We thought that was appropriate and we have done that. Whether the doors could automatically close or not, it <br />would only be certain doors, not every door but the ones that might lead from the kennel to the outdoors, that is something <br />that could be evaluated. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Since these are not final drawings, there is no guarantee the building will look like it does today? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: I think there is a form of guarantee, I think we are submitting things into the record that is part of the <br />application and I think the burden is to build it that way. I also think the regulatory environment is designed to ensure that. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: What is the current impervious surface grading of the property, has anyone determined that? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: We have not determined that. My sense of it is that it is less than 15% impervious but we have not <br />determined it because we don’t need to. It is not a parameter that has a minimum threshold or maximum amount so we <br />have not calculated that. We calculated other parameters that have to do with how much open space, how much pedestrian <br />landscape area, ethos things but we have not calculated impervious surface. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: When you are dealing with a project in the rural buffer zone, how is it different? What is your interpretation of <br />the rural buffer zone? How does it impact your design? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: It is very similar to how I look at any project because any project will be proposed in an area, at least in this <br />state, an area that has zoning. Zoning restrictions, a zoning designation which implies that the group that decided that <br />zoning had a certain idea in mind about what would be appropriate and permissible and permissible with special approvals in <br />that zoning district so it is not unlike any other zoning district. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Were you able to look at any other dog kennel operations in a rural buffer zone? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Was I able to look? <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Did you compare? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: I did not. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: The Fiscal Impact Study completed by Mr. Knight talks about a dog kennel in a commercial park. It talked <br />about Wal-Mart and Home Depot but it doesn’t talk about a dog kennel in a rural buffer zone so I wondered if you were <br />aware of a dog kennel operation in a rural buffer zone? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Yes. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Where? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: I understand there is one. I have not visited it. I understand there is one in an area south of this proposed <br />site on Highway 86. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Existing? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: That is my understanding that there is a small kennel in that area. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Did you ask Mr. Knight why he didn’t use that as one of his comparisons?