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Approved 6/13/2011 OC Board of Adjustment – 3/14/11 Page 27 of 59 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 maintain or enhance the value of our property or the history of this land. The next thing I would like to talk about is access road design and maintenance. For orientation, here is Old Greensboro Road. Again, the applicant is proposing to use this 1,300 foot long road for access to their site. There are three questions I believe to be discussed and considered. One is the use of an offsite, private residential roadway for commercial activity appropriate or allowed. What are the impacts of the proposed 20 foot wide gravel road way and who is responsible for maintaining a 20 foot wide commercial road. Let me orient folks to the relationship of the road to our front yard. This photo is looking directly at our home, Old Greensboro Road, is about 1,000 feet to the south. Fork to the right is our driveway; fork to the left is a continuation of the access road to the kennel. Here is a grape harbor that is on our property and is mentioned in one of the notes. Someone in the audience: On your property? Why don’t you correct that? Gene Poveromo: Thank you. Here is a grape harbor that is adjacent to our property. Let me go back and clarify. Here is the property line and there is the grape harbor. As Chuck points out, it is on this property here so he is correct, it is not on our property but we enjoy the area so we feel, legally it is not on our property but it is our side yard. I appreciate that clarification. This next photo reveals the visual and geographical relationship between a portion of the access road and our front door. This view was taken from our front yard looking south onto the access road. The point where the road disappears in the background is about 400 feet north of Old Greensboro Highway. The field on the right portion of the road extending to the tree line is a portion of our property. To the right and foreground is our immediate driveway. This photo reveals that approximately 500 feet of the access road approaches our front yard to the front door to our home in a direct line. I am troubled by the impact of adding commercial vehicular trips practically in our front yard traveling back and forth along this prominent… This next photo represents existing conditions adjacent to our property line so this road is approximately 300 feet whereas the last photo was taken looking south. This photo is looking due west at the point where the access road in our driveway fork. In the background where the image disappears, this is the entrance to the kennel site. Again, here is the grape harbor. What is striking about this photo is it is with the last immediate proximity of this access road to our side yard. The photo offers a good fill of the narrow, secluded, established vegetation along both sides of the road. With this orientation in mind, let me return to my first section. Is the use of an offsite private residential road for commercial activity appropriate or allowed? The next few images, I will take us down the road as you come off Old Greensboro Highway. This is starting on Old Greensboro Highway. This is a narrow 12 foot wide, it is a quiet, residential road. Portions of the lane are lined with large trees and fenced roads. It provides access to 11 residential sites. Our home is located approximately another 700 feet down the road. In the middle of the photo to the right is another road that provides access to 11 of the 6 homes. This access is subject to a maintenance agreement that encumbers property owners who use the road. I would like to enter this into the record. I think my wife has enough copies for the board members and a few extra copies to share. We are handing out an easement and road maintenance agreement. Michael Harvey: Is it your intention that this is your Exhibit 2 and your PowerPoint is Exhibit 1? Gene Poveromo: It is my intention, yes. Some of my concerns is that this proposed access road is not located on the applicant’s property, it doesn’t appear commercial use was anticipated in the easement. It is a very long access. The facility will not be visible from the roadway. Signage is not allowed on Old Greensboro Highway and it is unlike other kennels that I have looked at in the county so when this application came to my attention, I went out and drove around the county to survey some other kennels and what I have discovered is that they are almost always immediately visible from the public street. The access between the access street and the facility is located on the same property and the access drive to the facility is short. These photos are examples of kennels we have looked at. My conclusion is this roadway was not intended or constructed for this type of use. The maintenance agreement was intended to serve rural, residential activities and does not contemplate commercial use. The kennel location is not similar to what is commonly found in other kennels in the area. If we set those issues to the side a minute, the next question becomes, what are the impacts of a proposed 20 foot wide gravel roadway? Here is the view from the south side of the property. Again, we greatly appreciate your intent to protect the grape