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' Excerpt of Minutes Attachment 4 <br /> Approved 9/4/13 25 <br /> 1 MINUTES <br /> 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 JULY 10,2013 <br /> 4 REGULAR MEETING <br /> 5 <br /> 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Peter Hallenbeck (Chair), Cheeks Township Representative; Stephanie O'Rourke, Eno <br /> 7 Township Representative; Buddy Hartley, Little River Township Representative; Tony Blake, Bingham Township <br /> 8 Representative; Herman Staats, At-Large, Cedar Grove Township; James Lea, Cedar Grove Township <br /> 9 Representative; Andrea Rohrbacher,At-Large Chapel Hill Township; Paul Guthrie,At-Large Chapel Hill Township <br /> 10 <br /> 11 <br /> 12 MEMBERS ABSENT: Lisa Stuckey, Chapel Hill Township Representative; Maxecine Mitchell, At-Large Bingham <br /> 13 Township; Rachel Hawkins, Hillsborough Township Representative;Johnny Randall,At-Large Chapel Hill Township; <br /> 14 <br /> 15 <br /> 16 <br /> 17 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director; Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Perdita Holtz, <br /> 18 Special Projects Coordinator;Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner; Tina Love,Administrative Assistant II <br /> 19 <br /> 20 <br /> 21 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL <br /> 22 <br /> 23 **** * <br /> 24 Agenda Item 8: Home Occupations — To make a presentation on existing home occupation regulations, <br /> 25 information on how some other local governments handle the topic, and discuss Planning <br /> 26 Board member's ideas on potential amendments. This topic is included in the UDO's <br /> 27 "Implementation Bridge" as a topic for further evaluation and is an Interest Area for some <br /> 28 Planning Board members. <br /> 29 Presenter: Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner <br /> 30 <br /> 31 Ashley Moncado: The purpose of this item is to review existing home occupations standards to address Planning <br /> 32 Board's areas of interest form the January Planning Board meeting as well as the Implementation Bridge in order to <br /> 33 determine if existing standards may or may not need to be revised. <br /> 34 Ashley reviewed the existing standards for home occupations in the UDO under Section 5.5.3. then proceeded with <br /> 35 reviewing home occupations standards from other local communities in order to determine the next steps. <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Paul Guthrie: What is telecommunications, a person who is employed as a consultant that does all their work by <br /> 38 telecommunications, is that under this ordinance? <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Michael Harvey: We have approved home occupations depending on the proposed activity. If someone is truly <br /> 41 doing something at the house with the only rationale behind it is that if the neighbors complain, we can legitimately <br /> 42 say they obtained the appropriate permit. <br /> 43 <br /> 44 Paul Guthrie: What about artist's studios that don't have walk in business but produce? <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Michael Harvey: We have permitted art studios. The biggest complaint is they feel they deserve to have more <br /> 47 space and we treat every home occupation the same. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 Pete Hallenbeck: My answer would be that you are employed by someone else and you happen to work at home. <br /> 50 The artist is a home business and they are the business owner and they are working at home, that would be the <br /> 51 distinction. <br /> 52 <br /> 53 Paul Guthrie: We need to think very broadly about what we are trying to do and what our definitions are or you may <br /> 54 spend the full time permitting or helping permit 30,000 home businesses in Orange County. <br /> 1 <br />