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26 Approved 9/4/13 55 56 Pete Hallenbeck: I would agree with that. 57 58 Ashley Moncado continued presentation. 59 60 Pete Hallenbeck: This comment is from the time I spent on the Efland Small Planning Area and this subject came 61 up a lot. The Efland area had this overlay put onto it. The goal was that Efland is the County's Town. It is not 62 incorporated but has water, sewer, it can do denser development. There was lot of discussion about what defines 63 home business and one distinction was the concept of professional services and the poster child for thinking about 64 this was the difference between someone who wanted a barber shop and someone who had an engineering 65 consultation firm. The barber shop would have "anyone" come down with a lot of traffic and the engineer would 66 have a lot less traffic. There was some reluctance to try to qualify that one too much but it was a good example 67 down a private road where you could get neighbors riled up. My comments are,the two person limit, I would like to 68 see changed to three but I realize some people don't like that. I would also see the concept that you could have 69 two people and a third person up to a year. You've got a business and it is growing, you hire the third person and 70 keep them for a year, it is time to get a place of business. The square footage limit; Orange County has a 500 71 square foot limit but Chapel Hill has a 750 foot. Orange County could go to 750 and it wouldn't be too bad. The 72 deliveries limit, I just don't get, I understand some people love to shop so there will be deliveries. I don't see a 73 reason to have a limit. The parking is good. Basically you have to have enough room for the employees. I would. 74 like to see a set of standard that can be applied for rural districts (R1), rural areas of the county that might be 75 different than the municipalities. 76 77 Paul Gutherie: You don't mean municipalities? Basically,we are talking largely about outside municipal limits. 78 79 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes. I would also put the rural buffer in with the municipalities just because there is lot in the 80 UDO giving the rural buffer more protection. The idea is to avoid urban sprawl. It is difficult to start listing 81 professions. 82 83 Stephanie O'Rourke: My first thought is about the employees' requirement. How do you determine that? We have 84 a business but we would only have two or three onsite. 85 86 Michael Harvey: On site. You could have 100 employees but only have two onsite. 87 88 Tony Blake: I agree with Pete on the square footage. I think 500 feet is restrictive. The number of employees is if 89 you have three, you are sort of allowing the seasonal businesses to take advantage of that. As far as deliveries, 1 90 think you need to be able to handle the truck size. The accessory structure is the one place I see as the difference 91 between the rural buffer and zoning, etc. You could technically say a farm is a home business. You could word 92 that so that the 1,000 foot square limit was just inside certain zones. 93 94 Buddy Hartley: The square footage, I don't see why Orange County has 500 and Chapel Hill has 750. Maybe we 95 need to have a difference between a rural and the inside where you a larger development site. If it is in a 96 development you could have problems with the home owner's association. 97 98 Craig Benedict: This would be no means preempt a home owner's association if the HOA has restrictions. 99 100 Pete Hallenbeck: If you have more than 1,000 square feet of product things are going pretty well. That may be 101 where the limit of visitors can be used. 102 103 Craig Benedict: We understand these entrepreneurs starting a small business in their house and we have been 104 complaining we don't have places for the small business to move to. We hope they grow out of this into the 2,000 105 square foot strip center,etc. 106 2