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.a_. �..k May 24,2005 RE: Use Permit#PA-0500239 Development Committee: This application was for a commercial stable. It should be known that our business is horse racing. The majority of horses on our property are racehorses or racehorse broodmares. We breed racehorses and care for injured horses to either return them to racing or retire them to various adoption networks. The few saddle horses that we have are our own and for our own recreational use. I did decide to open to outside boarders because I had heard that so many ranches were closing due to housing track developments, leaving many horses homeless. In reviewing the requirements of this application, it appears that the"public activity and traffic'that is expected by the county is the source of many of the improvements requested. I cannot afford most of these improvements so I will not be accepting any"public'boarders and do not plan to hold any events,horse related or other at this facility. Therefore I will not be a public stable in any respect and will not be using any of my buildings for public use. The racehorses in my care are consigned to me by racehorse trainers. I pick them up and deliver them to trainers at various racetracks; therefore they generate no public traffic. To clarify,racehorse owners or trainers virtually never come to visit their horses. The traffic flow on our road is minimal and has been the same for the last 15 years. We do not foresee any changes to our current traffic patterns. We share our road with an agricultural equipment company;their equipment and employee traffic is consistent with any farming operation. If we are not open to the public and are not hosting any events, can the building square footage in the application be reduced or eliminated? As to the employee issue,there are no employees. There are three of us that reside on this property. We all own horses. We share the work for the benefit of the group. There is no payroll. The proceeds of the ranch,which are very very small,pay for expenses at the ranch. There is basically no profit at all. I respectfully request to modify my application to exclude the buildings for commercial public use. The barn has only 4 stalls in it and is used only by us for medical purposes. The rest of the barn is hay and equipment storage. The outdoor covered riding arena is used by my daughters and our friends to ride our horses. Thank you for taking the time to review my application. Christel Reagan