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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 55 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 />professors and business people and doctors and lawyers. Most of my clients take lessons, I do some lesson work. <br />Jumping, play biting, chewing, getting on furniture, occasionally, things get a little more problematic when dogs like to fight <br />with each other sometimes and they ask me to see if I can do something with those types of things. These are just pets. <br />Just pets. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: What about the boarding function? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I do the board and train already and ….. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: I am talking about your proposed use. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: When people go on vacation, I baby sit there dog. That is really what it amounts to. I anticipate the <br />average stay as being seven to ten days. It is going to be a very high end kennel. There is nothing like it around here. It is <br />all indoors. The runs are all oversized. Ten foot ceilings. The walkway between the two rows of runs on the right, there will <br />be ten runs on the left and ten runs, almost triple the distance it between to give it more spacious feel and can cause the <br />dogs less friction with each other while they are being boarded there. Babysitting. The dogs will be indoors unless they are <br />outside in small groups or one on one being trained in the outside area. They will eat and go to the bathroom in the same <br />oversized run. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Let me back up a little on understanding the boarding and training generally. We saw Phase I and II and part <br />of that was the training facility indoors. If I take my pet to you and say either I want you to train my dog to do whatever, be <br />quiet, or behave, and/or I want you to train me to be able to train my dog to behave, where would that be held? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: In the indoor training room. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: If I l left my dog with you to have you train my dog, to behave, and I wasn’t there, that would be taking place in <br />the training room, indoors? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Yes. Primarily. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Otherwise, if I wanted to be involved for you to train me how to make the dog heel and the like, same thing? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Same thing. As I have already mentioned, I have been doing this for 25 years, for the most part outdoors, <br />in the heat, and in the humidity and in the cold with mosquitoes, having to cancel because of rain and I am ready to come in. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: The exercise area that we heard about that has the six foot fence, the 1,800 square foot area, what is that <br />used for? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: That is for little playgroups, two or three puppies, maybe a workout with me and a dog. Not really for dogs <br />to go to the bathroom, for dogs to go out and literally exercise. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: How many dogs at a time would go to that? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: No more than three. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: At a time to go out to that exercise area? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: In that exercise area. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Would they be supervised the entire time? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: With the exception of me going back to get the next dog, yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You are in charge of the kennel, right?