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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 22 of 86 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Tony Whitaker: We had a conversation about that. Rob Maitland: Do you recall what he said. Tony Whitaker: Yes I do but I think he should explain it. Rob Maitland: Alright we will ask him. I have no further questions. Jeffrey Schmitt: Questions by the board. Tom Brown: Mr. Whitaker, the exterior of the buildings, how would you describe those? You said they would blend into he environment, how would you describe that exterior so that it would do that? Tony Whitaker: I am looking at drawing A2 and I described the finishing there and some of them are shown. I talked about where the kennel is there is a masonry wall up to a height of six feet. Above that is a conventional wood construction with a twist. The twist being that instead of normal four inch stud wall, it is a six stud wall with two by fours with staggered with insulation wrapped through which is a superior insulating approach so the outside of that is covered with a siding. Not vinyl but a cement fiber siding commonly known as hardy plank and other kinds. Tom Brown: At some level to get to the wood block and brick below. Tony Whitaker: The roof is a residential look kind of roof. Asphalt shingles, gable roof, not a metal roof. We considered metal roof but decided it wasn’t appropriate for the neighborhood. Also, I would say the windows and the doors are, even though they are commercial construction, they are selected to be like the kind of construction that one might have as a side exit door on the garage or something like that to try to be as residentially appropriate as possible. Tom Brown: Question on the sewage. The kennel allows 20 or more animals. Tony Whitaker: Yes. Tom Brown: But you said the sewage system will limit the number of animals. Is that in writing or has that been presented by the county in that there is a limitation and did they give you a hard number? Tony Whitaker: I do believe that hard number is embedded in the permit we have. I have to search the fine print on that permit. It should be in the packet but the calculation was done to show a certain number of dogs times a certain number of gallons per day per dog plus a little bit of extra for the occasional bath of a dog all adds up to 240 gallons per day which is the size of the system. That is embedded in the Orange County Health Department permit if it is explicitly stated there, I am not sure. Jeffrey Schmitt: How high is the fence that will be constructed in between the property here and the Southerland’s? Tony Whitaker: We are showing that as a six foot high fence. Just to give you a better answer, the effective height of that fence is greater because if you look at the ground elevations, the ground is about five feet higher than the floor elevation for the kennel so relative to the kennel, the ground is about five foot higher and the fence is six feet above that so effectively 11 feet higher than the floor elevation of the kennel. Jeffrey Schmitt: You are going to have evergreen plantings on both sides of this fence, you are not going back to the regulations. Those are spaced how far apart and what kind of trees are they? Tony Whitaker: They are spaced a various intervals apart. Examples are Southern Magnolia, Red Cedar trees that we are all familiar with, Wax Myrtles, Nellie Stevens Holly and Carolina Cherry so these are common, some native, some not so native but common evergreen plants that have a lot of bulk and height to them. They are spaced at various spacings. Some are as much as 12 feet and as close as about 8 feet.