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'This in response to letter from Roger and LuAnn Guffey to Lyman Anderson regarding our rezoning and CUP application 5990/1162. We will respond to each of their concerns in order. • 1) The town board is not the forum for adjusting the valid, legally binding joint well agreement between the parties. As of the time the Guffey's entered into the joint well agreement, the property at 3757 Mueller Rd . was an active operating business (Schwebbs Feeder Pigs) and was using the well. 2) According to Sec. 10.126(7)(b) kennels "shall be located at least 100 feet from an R-1,R-2, R-3, R-3A or R-4 Residence ristrict except when the Residence -istrict has been created for an existing farm residence or by seperating a farm residence from a farm property and the seperated parcel has been rezoned to a Residence nistrict after or at the time of the division." Guffey's parcel was created by the seperation of the original parcel. The closest building to be used for the kennel operation is approx. 170 feet from the lot line, far in excess of the required distance if in a residential district. 3) Our plan is for the boarded animals to be inside insulated, air conditioned buildings at nite, the hours of which were recomended by the Town of Windsor Plan Commision. That doesn't mean each dog will be outside the entire time allowed. Time alloted in the large excercise areas will be supervised for 20 to 30 minutes per dog 3 times daily. roars between individual in/out runs will be controlled as needed and are not intended to be open all day long. Existing buildings, block walls between the outdoor runs, landscaping and fencing will reduce the view the dogs have, thereby diminishing noise problems. 4) The 1993 Town of Windsor tax roll lists the Fair Market Value at $109,800.00. This value follows a walkthru re-evaluation during the summer of 1992. There has been no evidence presented the proposed kennel would reduce the propertie's value. 5) We would not object to the requirement that if we sell our property, the C.U.P. would not automatically transfer. 6) We accept the recomended hours outside as the Plan Commission voted for the. And, as stated in #3, the dog:: will not 'be allowed to roam outdoors all day long. We appreciate the service LuAnn provides for the children of the reForest area, but don't see any relavance of her job as a teacher's aide and our application for rezoning and a C.U.P. 7) Our 2 labs are part of our family. They are included in our daily activity. We placed their outdoor kennel in our backyard within a fenced area adjacent to our home. This allows our daughter (age 4) to release them, play with them and. hen,return them to their kennel. Until now we have never heard any complaints about late night barking from our one dog that stays outside. Ellie has been known to bark at other animals and dogs running thru our yard, farm traffic in the fields around our home and car traffic into our driveway. We do not see what relavance this has to our application. 8) If the Guffey's did not want neighbors they should not have moved "into the only house in the area which has another house right next to it." Again, we don't see the relavance of this to our request for rezoning and a C.U.P.