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• called the State Board of Health and that business does not need a permit for it is not regulated in any way. When they have a chance they do stop in and check on what's going on. Whether they have done this he honestly does not know. There have been two precedence set of zoning changes in this area and they were both turned down. Twenty- five years ago there was a machine shop situation and about a year ago there was a request to change zoning to build a garage for auto repair. In both cases they were turned down. So there is precedence in this situation. His biggest question is why after operating this business for the time that he has why does he need a zoning change now. Mr. Currens state that someone filed a complaint and he was called in front of the Plan Commission to cease and exist, because his property was not properly zoned for this business. Mr. Swango said he did not know that and that was fine. For the garage they filled the room up, because they were notified, but to his knowledge in this situation only two people were notified of the meeting. The rest of the people here heard by word of mouth. Mr. Currens stated that his obligation was to send to adjoining property owner's at least two deep or if their property is large enough they do not have to go beyond that. He asked if his property adjoined this property and Mr. Swango said a corner would for he has five acres across the fence from him there. He does not know where his property line is from his brother's property line Mr. Bruce Fairhurst, 10869 N. Bethel Road, said he did not feel it was over 600 ft. to Mr. Swango's property. He has found deer legs in the field behind his house when he was running his dogs last year. He feels it is a nuisance when your dogs start dragging stuff into your yard. Mr. Todd Seals, 2303 E Crosby Road, his property is diagonal from Mike Swan o's property where he backs up to Shannon's property. He has not had any problems as far as the bones being in his yard, but he has a problem with zoning being changed for a business. They have already been in before trying to keep business away from residential area and he has lived there since 1991 and the zoning has been residential and agriculture. He has had cows in the field behind him when he moved there, but no slaughtering or any of that; they were just raised in the field and taken somewhere else for all that. He would like for it to stay residential, for if you allow one business in what would keep the place from becoming a business area. Mr.4 ;Psai-dcthat several people had stated we were concerned about the zoning change, and we are not changing the zoning,but changing the use in the existing zoning. It is zoned agriculture and what we are doing is to determine that they follow the criteria for a variance of use. They are not changing the zoning, but allowing a variance of use in the area. Mr. Seals wanted to know if the variance were allowed, who would be responsible for disposable of bones, since people have had bones in their yards. The dogs are out all night waiting for the bones to be put in the dumpster and barking making noise which is a nuisance to the neighbors. Who in going to maintain that everyone's yards will stay clean? Who governs what is put in the dumpster and how often it is taken? Valeria said that they pick up the dumpster at five or six o'clock in the morning and that is a lot of noise when people are trying to sleep.