Reply #4: Would you feel that way if your house and back yard were next door to the "shelter"

[yellowcanine]

This is a residential neighborhood. People have a normal expectation that a dog shelter is not going to suddenly show up next door. Hence the need for "stupid" permits. Build a house without a building permit and you may have to tear it down. The fate of the animals is the woman's fault, not the people denying the permit after she broke the law.

Read the neighbor's perspective:

Art Rispoli, a neighbor whose complaints about the facility's barking dogs triggered the controversy, said he works nights and the dogs wake him.

While Iyengar said she accommodated Rispoli by keeping kennel doors closed and limiting the number of dogs outside, Rispoli insisted his complaints went unheeded.

"She had told me to come to her personally, and I did three times," he said. "The fourth time, I called the town."


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2010/...