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Applicants ATTACHMENT A Project Description I propose to provide Stockton with a modern public boarding IWW and horse care facility. There are two phases to my project . Init,ia.11y I plan to renovate the boarding facilities at Fann Ranch on Waterloo Road. The existing ten portable pipe stalls and riding arena will be upgraded and improved. I am adding a new arena surface material and sprinklers around the arena for any dust . I am reroofing the pipe stalls and adding additional lighting to the stalls and arena. I plan to build a new barn to accommodate 25 to 30 horses. The barn will have a completely weatherproof 90 X 120 ft riding arena where boarders can ride dully in any weather . The barn will have a chip and seal entry driveway and parking lot , to control dust . The parking lot and site includes landscaping, handicapped parking and bathrooms. The stalls will be cleaned daily. and the horses will be carefully maintained, There will be an automatic fly control spray system built into the barn with outlets into each stall . Vector Control Modern barns do not have to have flies. There are many ways to control the fly population. First , every barn should have an automated fly spray system. The spray system riveters an (� aerosol 'insecticide into each stall which is completely safe and biodegradable. There :is, a food additive: which when fed to horses makes their manure poisonous to flies and fly larva. There :is a biological fly control system which introduces a small nocturnal wasp which is a parasitoid, it lays:; its eggs in the fly larva and uses the pupa as food for the emerging wasp. There are also several tested, biodegradable fly sprays which can be sprayed on the barn surfaces for a residual fly killing effect . Modern barns do not have to have flies. Manure management There are also several ways to provide a manure management; program. I have talked with several large barn managers when I was looking for ideas to incorporate into a new barn. They were unanimous in their agreement that the: best way to handle manure is to shred it and spread it over a area of ground. Horse manure is not "wet " manure like cows or dogs. Horse manure is mostly alfalfa straw. When a. manure spreader is used, the spreader shreds the manure into small pieces and spreads it evenly throughout a field. The manure is dried so quickly that the fly pupa has no chance to develop into a fly and the small pieces are naturally incorporated into the soil . In my conversations with Mr . Van Riet of the University of California agr9. _:ultural extension service, he also agreed that spreading manure in this manner would be beneficial to two the field and have no effects on the surrounding properties. At this time all the manure is being picked up by a worm farrier who is delighted to get it .