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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 56 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 /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I am. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Do you have any other staff? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I am contemplating one and one half employees to fill in when I have other things to do. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: The maximum number of dogs is what? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Twenty. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You don’t intend to have more than 20 dogs? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I am not allowed more than that. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Your average boarding expectancy, you said was seven to ten days? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Yes. It is a projection. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: The question arose earlier whether you intended to build together or separately Phases I and II. Do you <br />remember that? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I do. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: The one I am talking about is the actual boarding area as one Phase and the training area as another indoor <br />facility. Do you intend to do both together? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Phase I, II and III, I came up with that concept two and one half years ago when I began working on this <br />project because I didn’t know how much money I would have or what availability I would have to the money, in what <br />increments, if it was all coming at once or if I had to build part and come and build the others. Since then, the financing has <br />been arranged and Phase I and II are going in together. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You are doing them together? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: They are no longer considered separate in my head. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: We shouldn’t be concerned about some hypothetical of not having Phase II built some time after Phase I. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: That was something that was worked on a long, long time ago and the names have stuck but the intent has <br />changed. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: You have heard a lot about the efforts to have noise attenuation for you facility. Is there anything else you <br />can say to this board about any legitimate concern that neighbors might have about noise from your business? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: From the very beginning of my career as a dog trainer, I have done my best to not cause trouble to the <br />people who live around me. In 25 years of doing this, I have never had single complaint from a neighbor. I have done this <br />indoors in town with dogs staying in my guest bedroom while I train them. This place has been designed in that same tone <br />as to not cause trouble. I put the dog kennel part of the building, Phase I and Phase II on my end. Not on the far end. If <br />there is any barking, I am the closest person. There is not a training room in between myself and the boarding kennel. I <br />started out by talking to Tony, I got him through an architect place, he said you need a civil engineer, I said do you know one <br />and he hooked me up with Tony at that point. I talked to Tony, I said I want to do this, I live property and there are people <br />who live nearby. It is not their burden to put up with my dogs so we need to design a place the best we can. I know we are <br />zoned right for this now we need to build a facility design a facility that fits that matches what it is we want to do, which is, I <br />don’t want anybody to see the kennel, I don’t want anybody to hear the kennel, I don’t want anybody to smell the kennel. All