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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 6 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 In other words, the dog runs, places where the dogs are housed and where they stay, he wanted those to be indoors. He wanted a small number of parking spaces. He was very adamant that whatever the county regulations were that he knew he did not need many parking spaces because of the way he understands through his business model. He noted to me that we may need to take some precautions regarding noise control and noise prevention and a good screened buffer. In addition to that I added a few things to that. I think we should make sure we don’t do any impact near the stream buffer. I think we should try to keep the buildings configured in a way that does not require excessive grading and clearing and we ought to look at the resources that are already available on the site. An existing septic system that is not for the house is a separate septic system that has never been used. It could be refitted and used for this kennel facility. That system had a certain size which actually put a limit on the number of dogs that could be housed in the facility because the number of dogs is proportional to the amount of waste water expected to be generated. Nick Herman: Where is the septic system on the plan? Tony Whitaker: That doesn’t show up on this plan. There are two septic systems for the property. One for the house located in the front of the house. Between the house and New Hope Church Road and totally separate not connected is a separate waste water system that has never put into service located in the southern part of the property just north of that stream buffer. Nick Herman: I am going to move to another exhibit. The exercise area that is six foot fence, how many square feet is that area? Tony Whitaker: About 1,800 square feet. Nick Herman: Now I am going to show you Applicant’s Exhibit Number 3. Mr. Chairman, I am through with these exhibits but I will provide them to the clerk so the records show that they seen to admit into evidence for the purposes of this received. Let me show you the Applicant’s Exhibit Number 2A. Exhibit 2A is a chart or drawing called Landscape Plan, is that part of the application submitted to the Board of Adjustment? Tony Whitaker: Yes. Nick Herman: What I would like you to do with the board is using Applicant’s Exhibit 2A is to show this Landscape Plan, its feature for this proposed use. You might want to start with the area towards the road, move to the west and to the south and take us around the property. Tony Whitaker: In the northeast part of the property, along the roadway frontage, working from the creek and a bridge that is along New Hope Church Road. There are existing trees in this area that are fairly mature. A mixture of hardwoods and pines and different kinds of trees that are just natural wooded forestland. If you move up toward the house, there is less of that existing vegetation and more landscape proposed for installation as shown on the plans. As you move to the western frontage corner and start working down that western property line, those tall evergreen trees are there that we talked about earlier. Moving on down along that property line, existing are a couple of nice black walnut trees toward the back as you start working toward the creek and as you get to the back of the stream buffer area, it is really mature woodland again, a mixture of hardwoods and softwoods that predominate along the stream buffer. That is true pretty much along both edges of the stream. As you get into the interior part of the property that is stream buffer but not really at the creek and not really on the high ground, there are intermediate trees, some of them old trees and some younger. There are some lawn areas where the sun gets through and grass has grown. As you move back up toward the place of our beginning, there are more scattered trees of different ages, some more mature, some less mature in there. Nick Herman: Have you been describing what exists on the site today? Tony Whitaker: Those are what exist on site today. Nick Herman: You have circles that would indicate trees? Tony Whitaker: Yes.