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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 57 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 />the bathroom business is indoors or the vast majority of it. We are going to every length we can go to make a sound proof <br />envelope around the dogs when they are indoors and decrease the sound level created by the dogs. Each run has panels to <br />decrease the line fighting which is what it is called when dogs bark at each other and run back and forth. Reduce the noise <br />and the noise is containing it. We have done that. I have added the six foot fence just so the people to the west, the <br />Southerlands, they are upset about this. I said I don’t want them to have to wait for the bushes to grow tall enough, that they <br />are not visually impacted by this so I ask somebody, to add a fence to the plan. We want to be invisible. We don’t want <br />anybody do see us or hear us or smell us. That is a low impact business relative to the amount of people coming and going <br />and that has been my plan right from the start. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Good evening Mr. Lonsway. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: How are you? <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Tired. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Lot of that going around. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: You just said that you will have no more than three dogs out at the time and up to this point it has been up to <br />one or two. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Up to this point, you were talking to Tony and he and I spent about 100 hours last year getting ready for the <br />first hearing which has no relevance today. We have not spent 100 hours refreshing his memory in the past several months. <br /> The number has always been several. Tony misspoke. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: So the testimony from the sound expert, he talked about one or two dogs that were …… <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: He doesn’t have anything to do with the dogs outside; his job was to talk about the building. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: There is nothing you can do to control the noise once the dogs get outside. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: That is my job. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Now, Tony Whitaker told us one or two and you are telling us three or several. How many is it? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Three to me is several. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: You said you are going to have a maximum of 20 dogs. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: Yes. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: If this court somehow sees fit to approve your application, do you commit to 20 dogs forever at this facility? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: I have already done that. That is part of my arrangement with the county relative to the subject, relative to <br />the property, relative to all …. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Would you be willing to put that in there so that when you sell the property somebody else ….. <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: It is already in there. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Okay. You just mentioned 10 runs. What are the 10 runs? <br /> <br />Gene Lonsway: A dog run. An enclosure for keeping a dog. There are 20 of them in the facility. <br /> <br />Rob Maitland: Where are they?