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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 4 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 Nick Herman: What I want you to talk about is what exists on the property today in the absence of the issuance of the Special Use Permit. If you would, by using this exhibit, take the board through all the features of this property in terms of what exists on it, perhaps by starting with the roads and entranceway into the property. Tony Whitaker: If you are standing at New Hope Church Road looking into the property, the most prominent feature you will see is a split level residence that is served by a loop driveway with two points of connection onto New Hope Church Road. There is the loop driveway and the single family residence and just behind the residence, to the west, is a swimming pool with a deck and a fenced area around the swimming pool. Nick Herman: Who lives in the residence? Tony Whitaker: The applicant, Mr. Gene Lonsway and his wife. Also, behind the residence is an existing structure marked as number six on your exhibit. That structure appears to be an old barn or some sort of non-residential building that is in a state of disrepair. The siding is torn off; it is not habitable, and not really usable. Further to the southwest, there is an existing garden area with a chain link fence and a concrete path that has no current use. To the west side, there is a row of tall evergreen trees that form a dense hedge for about 120 feet back into the property. Along the southern property line, there is a stream that has Orange County Stream Buffers and the State of North Carolina proposed stream buffers. Along the east property line, there is another stream with those same buffers plus a published flood plain. Nick Herman: What is the shaded area? Tony Whitaker: The shaded area is the stream buffer area, the totality of the stream buffers. Nick Herman: Point out to us the adjoining, the immediately contiguous property, to this property and any other houses that are on properties contiguous to this property shown on this exhibit. Tony Whitaker: To the west, there is an existing single family residence located on the adjacent property and the distance, I am going to give distances that are measured from the proposed new kennel facility, measured about 180 feet away from that proposed kennel facility. To the southwest, in this general area, is an existing residence about 408 feet away. To the south, another residential property that is about 350 feet away, that house is not on an adjoining property but is on property that is one lot over that is intervening between this residence and this property. Nick Herman: Are you saying that residence is on property that is contiguous to that property or not? Tony Whitaker: Not. Nick Herman: In other words, intervening is another piece of property? Tony Whitaker: Right. To the east, there is a residence from this location, about 500 feet away and this residence is about 350 feet away. Nick Herman: There are a total of three residences that are on properties directly contiguous to this property? Three houses? Tony Whitaker: I count them as four, west, southwest, and east and to the east. Nick Herman: Did you, as part of the application for Mr. Lonsway, submit to the board, plans for how this facility would be constructed if a Special Use Permit were approved? Tony Whitaker: Yes. I did. Nick Herman: Let me show you, applicant’s exhibit number two. Are those part of the plans that you have submitted to the board to get this proposed Special Use?