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We have files filled with examples, and countless phone calls and visits to city hall and other agencies, including the PCA. It was suggested by one of the members of the planning commission that the current applicant should not be punished for past problems. We agree, but that was not the point of raising past issues. The point was, that the city hasn't been able to enforce proper usages after a disruptive, nuisance or in most of our cases non compliant usage, and the home owners suffer loss of property value and peace in the mean time. The lesson from our experience, we believe, in this difficult residential /light industrial interface, (along with creating and maintaining adequate buffers) has been to carefully consider permits on the front end as opposed to trying to police them on the back end. It asks the city to do what it heretofore has not had the staffing to do and it causes the residents loss of peace and property value. With city budgets in decline, I cannot imagine more hours being dedicated to these tasks. As we watched the vote, we felt quite defeated in what we thought was a pretty clear case of repeating the past and putting us and our homes in potential harms way while also employing us, once again as code /usage police. This time, "woof" and odor police (24 hours per day, since there are no staff overnight). Please give this matter your careful consideration as it is very important to us and our neighbors. We are dog lovers and hope that the "Woof Room" is successful somewhere. Obviously, we strongly believe that 4 feet from us is the wrong place. There are far better usages, for this non compliant building, such as the storage facility which went in last fall in the west side of this building and has been relatively harmonious aside from some late night loading /unloading. If you, as a city council, vote for this permit, we ask that you consider amending their permit in these very important ways: 1) The south wall, which is 4 feet from us, instead of 40 ft. "non- compliant due to being built there long ago and being Grandfathered until now), should be soundproofed to the utmost, beyond the current code of partial concrete, gypsum board 'or drywall etc. Due to its non compliant proximity to our residence and the absence of an adequate landscape sound buffer, which the city also requires between industrial and residential. We here the noises from within that building in your yard, on our deck and in our home now, and we will certainly would here the "woofs" from the Woof Room. 2 )Require further landscape sound /odor buffering between 2