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N C37 OD Article, Section, or Page Number Page 5 -15, section It would be good to allow people to live in a residential mobile home or camper when they are construction a new house 5.4.4 (A) (1) (e) on the same lot. The 1 year limit seems too tight for this type of use. Perhaps this case can be called out and a time period of 2 years can be allowed if an active building permit for a residential structure is in force for the lot. This would be a big financial relief to people building their homes. 1 Pages 5 -17 to 5 -19 The limits under section (c) "General Operations" and (e) "Use of Accessory Structures" severely limit what a home occupation can do. Section by Section: 5.5.3 (2) (c) (iii) on page 5 -18 would mean that a home occupation can only provide a service. This precludes an home occupation that might involve the design and sales of any kind. Examples that bring this to mind are contract manufacturing of small electronic goods sold via web sites, any business that sells software, any business that wishes to sell other goods that are ancillary to the main product but purchased from other suppliers. Moving on just below this to (iv), the limit of 2 individuals not living in the residence also causes problems for home occupations involved in white collar activities such as design, products, software, or any contract engineering where it might be necessary to work with other contractors on occasion. It might make more sense to limit the number of people as a function of the square footage used for the business. Which brings me to section (v) which has limits on how much floor area can be used for the home occupation. I currently have 1440 sq feet above the garage, and about 700 square feet in an unfinished basement for my contract electronics design home business. So even if its just me, I'm in trouble with this ordinance. I could add 5 or 6 people given the room I am using. So I think there is a relationship between sections (iv) and (v) that link the number of people and the square footage used. I would limit the space used to 35% of the floor area, and not have the 500 square foot cap. Section 5.5.3 (A) 2 (d) which is on page 5 -19 has limits on traffic generation. Section (i) is too restrictive. Many houses have more than two deliveries of products per week between Fed -Ex, UPS, other carriers and the USPS. A limit based on the number of individuals working at the home which limits them to arriving, going to lunch, leaving, and one more trip per day plus some number (perhaps 5 ?) visitors a day makes sense. The five visitors allows for clients using professional businesses such as tax preparation, legal services, design services and the like while ruling out high traffic volume activities associated with general commercial activities.. Limits on deliveries makes no sense, since the various carriers tend to not make large number of visits per day. The number is easy to figure out, and it will be easy to verify if anyone trying to run a retail business from a home is in violation. Section 5.5.3 (A) 2 (e) "Use of Accessory Structures" limits the outbuilding area used for the business to 1000 square feet. I would suggest a limit based on the size of the lot, with an upper limit in the 2500 square foot range (around a 40 x 60 building). Perhaps allowing an additional 100 square feet per acre of lot size would make sure the building was appropriately sized for the lot size. page 5-45, (o) Here or somewhere else it would be good to state that all routes of travel that would be used by fire apparatus must be at least 14 feet wide by 14 feet tall, and allow for apparatuses as long as 45 feet to pass through the space and make all turns. 1) Incorporated; 2) For further BOCC discussion; 3) Implementation Bridge — Possible future phases; 4) Suggesting no action