MATTAPOSIETT — An application to add a doggy day care at 123 Fairhaven Road, next to Denise’s Pet Care Center didn’t meet much resistance from the Zoning Board once it clarified the terms of the business, but it did let the property’s owner know that a different part of the lot needed a cleanup. 

Nancy Carroll, who will run the doggy daycare, and Peter Renaghan, who owns the property, appeared before the board on Sept. 19 to request a special permit for the new business, which would be next to Denise’s, but have a different owner. 

Carroll  outlined the specifics of the business: it would operate 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, not board more than 20 dogs, and not board any overnight. 

Robert Graves, an abuttor to the property, brought up two concerns at the public hearing. One was a concern with noise and the other “a junkyard on the property that was was supposed to be cleaned up, but nothing has happened with it,” Graves said. He also said that boats, cars and trucks on the lot were leaking fuel. 

Renaghan said he had not heard of the request to clean up the back of his property, where he lets Dana Barrows store boats and cars. 

In response to the concern about noise, Carroll, who runs a similar business in New Bedford, said that she has trained her employees to keep the dogs in at certain times and that they spend a lot of time outside with the dogs.  

Board members Anthony Tranfaglia and Ken Pacheco were not as concerned with the noise. 

Graves was asked if he had ever brought a complaint up with the board. He answered that he had not, but had gone to Building Inspector Andrew Bobola with the complaint. 

Bobola said that the view of the boats and vehicles was partly obscured until Chase Canopy came in, and that Graves should have brought the complaint up with the board. 

Still, he said he would take it up with Barrows and “do what we need to, inclusive of court action to remove the vehicles.” 

However, board members were concerned that attaching the cleanup of the site as a condition of the business would unnecessarily delay opening. 

“Denise’s has always been a professional business, done without issues,” Bobola said. 

The board approved the new day care with the hours of operations and number of dogs that Carroll had stated, though board members ordered Renaghan to “clean up your yard!” after the approval. 

Renaghan responded that he would talk with Barrows in the morning.