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APPROVED 5/10/2010 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 3/8/2010 Page 8 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 <br />done. There is a restroom, a utility room, a bathtub for the occasions where a dog gets himself in a position and needs a <br />bath. That is a central core area, administrative support area that will be built as part of Phase 1. To the right of that is <br />Phase 2, the training room, which is one big room. Totally open, just a lot of square footage for dogs to be trained and be <br />put through their activities which are part of the training and also for customers who want to observe their dogs to meet with <br />Mr. Lonsway to talk about the dog’s progress. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: In the construction of this, is Phase 1 or Phase 2 that is all in the same building? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: It could be in the same building or it could be built separately. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Either way, are all of these facilities fully enclosed? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Yes. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: In connection with the design with the design of what I will call Phase 1 and Phase 2 that you have on Exhibit <br />3A, is there any part of the construction of this that takes into account acoustical considerations? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: Certainly there is. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Would you explain those? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: They might be better explained if you look at the second page of Exhibit 3B? <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Tell the board what that is and explain these acoustical considerations. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: This Exhibit is shown as drawing #A2 in the lower right hand corner. These are elevations of the Phase 1 <br />and Phase 2 building so if you look at the elevation along the top which is what we call a front elevation of the kennel to see <br />you park in the parking lot and got out of your car and looked at the building. To the left you see the kennel area where the <br />dogs would be behind that wall. You can see that wall looks a little different in that from the ground to a height of six feet, the <br />construction is masonry block wall which is an eight inch think masonry block with the voids in that wall filled with vermiculite <br />for sound dampening so really a solid fill concrete, masonry wall up to six feet high and above that you see some small <br />windows that are designed to let light in to the kennel area and then they are also designed, this drawing doesn’t show it, but <br />it is a part of our application, those windows have special design considerations a large air gap between two panes of glass <br />and some special sealing to be sure that no unnecessary sound might get through that otherwise could be a weak point for <br />sound purposes. The roof is a typical residential style gapel shingle roof. What you don’t see on this elevation but is a part <br />of our application is inside the building, the ceiling above the dog areas is a flat ceiling that is a drop ceiling that is the same <br />kind of stuff designed for use in operating rooms. Very high quality sanitary kind of material that is waterproof. In other <br />words if it gets wet from the wash down activities, it won’t deteriorate that material and on top of that is sound baton <br />insulation. Above that is the attic space and the soffits and the ridge fit of that attic space has been designed to have the <br />very minimal openings for ventilation that the code allows to minimize how much sound might be able to get through those <br />areas. Then the doorways that lead from the dog area are heavier, denser door material as to limit the sound. What I have <br />described as an envelope around the dog areas that is an extraordinary sound damping in envelope. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: In connection with the features of this facility or the construction of it to take into account acoustical <br />considerations, did your firm consult with any experts in connection with this design? <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: We did. <br /> <br />Nick Herman: Tell the board who that was and the nature of the consultation. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker: We consulted with Mr. Noral Stewart of Stewart Acoustical Consultants. Mr. Stewart, as we understand it, is <br />an expert in this field and is nationally recognized and was locally available and was available to consult on this project. He <br />took a look at what we had already proposed after we were into the design. He said it was a good basic design but he