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Petitioner does not train horses on his premises, nor does
he give lessons or offer horseback riding facilities. In fact,
access to the riding trails from the Clayton property is
obstructed by the presence of Mount Diablo. If a boarding client
wants to train, ride, or exercise a horse the client must
transport the animal to another facility in the area. The
business portion of the Clayton premises is not used for anything
other than breeding and boarding horses.
While petitioner has several personal horses that are
generally located on the portion of the Clayton property not used
for business, occasionally he puts them with the boarded horses.
At no time, however, are the boarded horses permitted on the
residential portion of the Clayton property.
When petitioner moved to Livermore it was substantially less
congested than it had become by the time petitioner sold the
property in 1988. By 1988, petitioner could no longer keep many
horses on the property. During this time, petitioner was also
having problems with his neighbors who were throwing cat litter
over his fence. In addition, petitioner became increasingly
concerned about liability issues, because children in the
neighborhood would climb over his fence and get too close to his
personal horses. Petitioner finally decided to sell the
Livermore property when one of these children got onto his
property and turned some of the horses loose.
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