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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 5 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: Yes. Nick Herman: I would like for you to do with this Exhibit number two, perhaps beginning again with the driveway as you go in, take us into the property and point out the features, structures, plans for this use. In other words, what improvements would you make, what improvements would be deleted, etc. Tony Whitaker: Standing at New Hope Church Road looking into the property, the plan involves removing the eastern most driveway, closing it off and leaving the asphalt pavement that is there, enhancing the existing driveway on the western side of the property to have that wider width that is required for safety codes and to consolidate and funnel all the ingress and egress traffic movements from the property into one location. The new driveway will be widened and extended along the west side of the house back into an area behind the swimming pool to an area containing five new parking spaces. Those parking spaces will be surrounded by two buildings. This building being a Phase I kennel building where the administrative support area is and the Phase II training facility attached to the kennel building. Those can be built as one building together or phased into two separate buildings as well. The third phase is a storage building that would be located to the west of the training room. In addition to that, we are proposing an outdoor exercise area that is fenced in accordance with county regulations for that sort of area. That fenced area is intended for dogs to be exercised, one or two at the time occasionally, as needed during the day and that location is designed to be at least 150 feet away from any property line which is a county regulation. Nick Herman: How high is this fence? Tony Whitaker: The fence is six feet high. Nick Herman: And the Kennel Phase One that you talked about, what is the function of that? What is its purpose? Tony Whitaker: The Kennel Building Phase One I could refer you to the exhibit that shows the floor plan. Nick Herman: I’ll get to that. Why don’t you tell us the purpose, what is in the kennel? Tony Whitaker: Dogs. The kennel is intended to board up to 20 dogs. Nick Herman: The training facility is another phase. What happens in the training facility? Tony Whitaker: That is a separate large room that the trainer can bring dogs in small groups into and conduct various training exercises and training activities that are a part of his business model. Nick Herman: I take it that the dwelling, the deck and the pool will remain. Tony Whitaker: Yes. The dwelling remains unchanged. The existing residential parking will have to be modified very slightly to accommodate the new driveway and the existing swimming pool, as noted on your plans, has the possibility of being reconditioned or slightly expanded in the future without any real impact on the area surrounding the pool. Nick Herman: Ok. Was it our firm that came up with this design in terms of where these facilities would be located? Tony Whitaker: Yes. Nick Herman: And what did you take into account in connection with deciding where to locate the various facilities? Tony Whitaker: When I first met with Mr. Lonsway, he had a well organized set of ideas and design principles that he wanted to have in this kennel. Of course, he has a certain idea about his business operation and what he wants to accomplish with it. He articulated this to me. He wanted the kennel facility behind the house and not to be visually identifiable from the roadway. He wanted it to look more residential in nature rather than industrial. He didn’t want it to look industrial. He wanted it to fit in the neighborhood in terms of its appearance. He wanted the area to be completely enclosed.