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Steven Ellis	12/23/2009 3:20:40 PM
You have got to be kidding. Does anybody think a barnyard belongs in the R-O district. (Intent) The R-O District is intended to include urban and suburban residential and professional office uses... Some of the permitted uses are hotels, motels and motor lodges; boarding houses; private clubs and lodges; museums, historic and cultural exibits; child care centers; schools; hosptals and nursing centers; offices of physicians, surgeons, dentists etc...; accounting, auditing and bookkeeping; Attorneys; The list of administrative services goes on. None of which are compatible with a Large Domestic Animal Facility next door. And guess what, some people just don't like the smell of horse manuer and urine. I don't like it every spring, when the breeze blows from the piles of manure saved all winter at my neighbor's. Next. This ordinance change is being proposed to correct an illegal use at a single property. This is not the way we are supposed to enact zoning ordinaces that affect the entire Municipality. The P&Z Commission needs to look at what is intended by the zoning ordinance to determine if Large Domestic Animal Facilities are compatible. They cannot look at how the area actullay developled. It is possible that the animal facility in question is compatible with the neighborhood and the neighborhood has not developed as intended in the R-O District. In that case a rezone would be the best alternative.

Submitted comments will appear below after staff approval.

Steven Ellis

12/23/2009 3:20:40 PM

You have got to be kidding. Does anybody think a barnyard belongs in the R-O district. (Intent) The R-O District is intended to include urban and suburban residential and professional office uses... Some of the permitted uses are hotels, motels and motor lodges; boarding houses; private clubs and lodges; museums, historic and cultural exibits; child care centers; schools; hosptals and nursing centers; offices of physicians, surgeons, dentists etc...; accounting, auditing and bookkeeping; Attorneys; The list of administrative services goes on. None of which are compatible with a Large Domestic Animal Facility next door. And guess what, some people just don't like the smell of horse manuer and urine. I don't like it every spring, when the breeze blows from the piles of manure saved all winter at my neighbor's. Next. This ordinance change is being proposed to correct an illegal use at a single property. This is not the way we are supposed to enact zoning ordinaces that affect the entire Municipality. The P&Z Commission needs to look at what is intended by the zoning ordinance to determine if Large Domestic Animal Facilities are compatible. They cannot look at how the area actullay developled. It is possible that the animal facility in question is compatible with the neighborhood and the neighborhood has not developed as intended in the R-O District. In that case a rezone would be the best alternative.

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