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APPROVED 5/10/2010 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 60 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 Rob Maitland: The fact is that you bought this property on September 3, 2009 and you are in the throws of this permit. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to do some due diligences and ….. Gene Lonsway: Check the date that I bought the property? Rob Maitland: No. And decide whether or not before you bought the property whether this is something that you could on it. Gene Lonsway: I did do due diligence. This is zoned correctly. Folks keep talking about this rural buffer like it supposed to protect the city from the country. Kennels have always been a rural activity, always. Traditionally, kennels belong in the country and because the city is encroaching on the country, people build little neighborhoods and they act as though raising cattle, which is what this placed used to be is a cattle farm, there is still a pump down at the creek where they pumped water out to feed the cattle. This is the country. I did my homework. I found out what it was zoned. I found out that this appropriate place to put a kennel based on the ordinance. I then talked to some experts and said how can we make a building that will be appropriate for this part of the country, this near town? I think that is due diligence. Rob Maitland: Well, there is no doubt, and to the surprise to many, that a dog kennel is a permitted use …. Gene Lonsway: Sir, riding stables need to be in the country, yet near enough to town so the customers can … Rob Maitland: And I bet you it wouldn’t be here if we were talking about horses. Gene Lonsway: the ordinance is the same. A Class B Special Use Permit puts them both together. Rob Maitland: To get that permit, you have to meet certain requirements. Gene Lonsway: I believe we have. Rob Maitland: A lot of these requirements rely on you to comply with the plans we have talked about tonight, you are going to do all these things and I am pointing out here that I am asking you some pretty basic questions and already in the three or four minutes I have been asking the questions you haven’t given me a straight answer. I ask you when you bought the property, you told me two years again and it is not even six months ago. Gene Lonsway: You can also ask me when I got married to my wife and that was about a year and one half ago. I am pretty close on that one I suspect. Rob Maitland: She didn’t sign the applications by the way but I am going to let you slide on that. And you didn’t have a license for business… Gene Lonsway: Which isn’t required. Rob Maitland: Which you are not required to do. That is fine. I guess the other question I wanted to ask you was what hours do you plan to operate? Gene Lonsway: It is not ascertained yet. I suspect something like 8:30 to 5:30 Monday through Friday. A little bit later like 9:00 to 1:00 on Saturday and maybe Sunday I’ll pick up and drop off in the afternoon. Rob Maitland: You would be willing to stipulate that as part of ….. Gene Lonsway: I told you I am not that far in my planning yet. Rob Maitland: My concern is there is nothing here that would prevent you from running your dogs out in the middle of the night.