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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 42 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: When you took a look at your report on page, your number 4. <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: Page 74 of the abstract. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: It says shape and size, you said the property priced on 4.683 acres, how much of that is build-able or how <br />much of that is not in the stream buffer zone? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: I don’t have any idea, I didn’t do the survey. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Would your opinion on this have been influenced at all if in fact only 2.68 of the lot were build-able? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: The analysis, which the various associated with this property are incorporated here look at the existing land use <br />and landscape plans and others so you are looking at an entire piece of property. I have to go on the reliance of the <br />information that is given to me that the buildings that exist or proposed meet the ordinance or in this case the Special Use <br />Permit. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: That is what I am asking, you mentioned up here on the Sunny Acres Pet Resort, that the building was all <br />spread out, all on this big park and I am just asking when you look at this, if there ought to be squeezed and shoe horned <br />into 2.6 acres, does that make a difference in your analysis? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Not for the existence of a kennel facility. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Tom. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: I have some more questions. Let me see if this is right, theoretically, if you had somewhere in Orange <br />County, tomorrow, a kennel moving right next door to one or more houses, right. Over a period of time, I guess, maybe in <br />five or ten years from now, one could see whether there was any effect of that kennel on the marketability of the surrounding <br />houses, would that be fair to say? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: It would take time, yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: That assumes that you have that kind of situation that you can draw upon, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Right. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Okay. But you didn’t have that kind of situation, agreed? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: There are very few other kennel facilities of any size in the county to look at that are have nearby residential <br />developments to gauge the sale and resale values. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Right and, I think you mentioned this in your report, and of course, when we were talking about the <br />neighborhood where Mr. Lonsway lives, that is just not any neighborhood, that is a neighborhood near a major transportation <br />corridor and it has houses of certain styles, right? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: Yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: So what you tried to do, if I understand it correctly, is to do your best with the limited data that was out there, <br />in order to see if there was negative impact, is that fair to say? <br /> <br />Vic Knight: That is correct. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You began by trying to find a group of residences in a subdivision with houses that had a similar mix of styles <br />and age to the residences in the area where Mr. Lonsway lives, right? <br />