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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 33 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 />Vic Knight: The traffic level ranges from about 2,300 to 2,800 vehicles a day. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Okay. You have heard the testimony of Mr. Stewart in terms of assuming 20 dogs are barking at the same <br />time what the noise level would be at the boundary of the property, you heard him testify to that how loud it would sound. <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You are saying that what you have experienced out there from the traffic alone that far exceeds what Mr. <br />Stewart is talking about. <br /> <br />Vic Knight: That would be my anticipation. The noise was certainly audible and I referenced that in the report. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You have included and considered, I take it, looking at your Impact Analysis, there was the site plan that we <br />had up here, we had a landscaping plan, and we had the kennel facility floor plan, 3A, 3B and 3C. The elevations, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: And the storage floor plans and the storage elevations. All of those are attached to your impact analysis? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Is Exhibit #5 the Impact Analysis that was submitted in connection with the application? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: I am going to introduce that. Your analysis, as I understand it, took into account, in part, any kind of impact of <br />the Sunny Acres kennel in the Whispering Pines area. Is that right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes sir. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: In part, it took that into account. To your knowledge, does the Sunny Acres kennel, is that designed in the <br />same way that this kennel that Mr. Lonsway is proposed to be designed. <br /> <br />Vic Knight: As I understand the construction drawings, it doesn’t appear to be that similar. It is a fairly significant dated <br />facility that has been in existence, as far as I can determine from records, for over 30 years. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Someone, I think it was Mr. Whitaker on cross examination, made reference to some kennel off 86, do you <br />know what he was talking about? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: There is an existing kennel called Green Valley Farms. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Since that was raised, was that a kennel worth considering in terms of your analysis at all? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: I did spend some time looking at the facility. There are not very many residential properties that are around it in <br />terms of density. Most of the lots that exist are relatively scattered so their proximity to the facility could be fairly distant. <br />Certainly off the road services this particular location, there could be hundreds of feet further away than the closest nearby <br />residence. There is a local development that is in somewhat proximity to this that I had an opportunity to talk to the <br />developer about that to ask him were there any considerations given about this particular dog facility when he decided to <br />develop but other than that, I couldn’t find enough sales information to go through similar extensive analysis that I did on the <br />other two occasions. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: So given the lack of proximity of residences to that, the 86 facility, there is nothing about that would provide <br />you with any useful data to incorporate here? <br />