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Approved 9/4/1.3 27 <br /> 107 Andrea Rohrbacher: The challenges that I faced in Chapel Hill in a residential neighborhood was a woman that ran <br /> 108 mediation classes. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night, there were 10 cars lined up on the street. <br /> 109 That became burdensome. <br /> 110 <br /> 111 Pete Hallenbeck: That speaks to the.number of visitors and onsite parking. <br /> 112 <br /> 113 Tony Blake: It also speaks to hours of business. <br /> 114 <br /> 115 Stephanie O'Rourke: How would you differentiate if they were having a Wednesday night ladies night? <br /> 116 <br /> 117 Andrea Rohrbacher: I think it was because this was three nights a week. In the Chapel Hill ordinance, some way <br /> 118 that you can have an art studio with power, running water but there is something in there that was specifically <br /> 119 targeting student housing that it wasn't a livable structure. They wanted to avoid someone building a 750 foot <br /> 120 structure to rent to a couple of students. <br /> 121 <br /> 122 Michael Harvey: If you apply for home occupation, there are standards we use to see if efficiency apartment <br /> 123 applies. <br /> 124 <br /> 125 Andrea Rohrbacher: What do we allow as identification if it was a consulting type business. <br /> 126 <br /> 127 Pete Hallenbeck: If you're a consultant, you don't need a sign. Review the signage. <br /> 128 <br /> 129 Andrea Rohrbacher: What about daycares? <br /> 130 <br /> 131 Michael Harvey: Daycares is not a home occupation, it is a separate permitting process. <br /> 132 <br /> 133 Stephanie O'Rourke: Wouldn't the homeowners association or the restrictive covenants be over that? <br /> 134 <br /> 135 Craig Benedict: Also the parking code. <br /> 136 <br /> 137 Andrea Rohrbacher: I would not want to go over three employees. <br /> 138 <br /> 139 Tony Blake: Three includes the resident as well? <br /> 140 <br /> 141 Michael Harvey: You can't have more than two employees that don't live at the residence. <br /> 142 <br /> 143 Andrea Rohrbacher: I don't have any feeling about square footage,going to 750 would be good. <br /> 144 <br /> 145 James Lea: Most of them have already been covered. <br /> 146 <br /> 147 Herman Staats: Is a farm covered as a home occupation? <br /> 148 <br /> 149 Perdita Holtz: Farms are exempt from zoning regulations. <br /> 150 <br /> 151 Herman Staats: Are there specs that guide the private roads maintenance agreement? <br /> 152 <br /> 153 Pete Hallenbeck: If you have a place that has three,four or five homes on the road and there is a legal agreement <br /> 154 about how to pay for the road maintenance then basically, we don't want this agreement to force a single house <br /> 155 with a long driveway to do something. <br /> 156 <br /> 157 Herman Staats: Is there an exemption that all these things can be dealt with on a case by case basis. <br /> 158 <br /> 159 Craig Benedict: There has to be clarity on what is exempt and what is not. Various criteria, it is so tight that there <br /> 160 is not too many ways to make it through. We need to mention what is clearly exempt by definition. <br /> 3 <br />