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30 Approved 10/2/13 <br /> 55 <br /> 56 Tony Blake: Is there a definition for home office? <br /> 57 <br /> 58 James Lea: Office, hair stylist, etc. <br /> 59 <br /> 60 Pete Hallenbeck: You may also have the situations to where all these changes occur and there is a problem with <br /> 61 the numbers,we at least have the format and can change the numbers. <br /> 62 <br /> 63 Andrea Rohrbacher: Does telecommuting apply? <br /> 64 <br /> 65 Ashley Moncado: Yes. This was more for onsite. As long as you don't exceed four all at once, you could operate <br /> 66 as home occupation. <br /> 67 <br /> 68 Paul Guthrie: How do you define visitor? If you have 10 students, that may wipe out some occupations. We <br /> 69 should be knowledgeable about these types of limitations. <br /> 70 <br /> 71 Pete Hallenbeck: Let's go around the room for comments. <br /> 72 <br /> 73 Paul Guthrie: I only wanted to indicate that we do have a home business, an artist, and we have almost no visitors. <br /> 74 Some of the definitions,visitors,deliveries,are so imprecise. Do delivery trucks count toward that number? <br /> 75 <br /> 76 Pete Hallenbeck: Michael Harvey would be able to look at those to check them. <br /> 77 <br /> 78 Andrea Rohrbacher: My first concern in students per day. The way this is written if that I had a summer craft <br /> 79 session with a morning session of 10 students and an afternoon session with 10 students that would not be <br /> 80 allowed. My second question is about the number of events per year. If I had a seasonal business, I bake wedding <br /> 81 cakes, I would like to have 2 events in the spring and one in the fall or open houses per year and then my kitchen is <br /> 82 in my home and it meets all the standards for me to do the wedding cakes and I also do my home cooking, where <br /> 83 does that land in this? <br /> 84 <br /> 85 Herman Staats: Keep these issues in mind when we have additional public meetings related to this so we can <br /> 86 modify these to better accommodate everyone. <br /> 87 <br /> 88 James Lea: Looking at the revised standards dealing with minor and major home occupations sounds great with a <br /> 89 little tweaking until you get to the new standards and pretty much it says all home occupations that exceed 10%or <br /> 90 more. If you have any type of business, you will exceed the 10% of the floor area if you have a reception area. <br /> 91 Then we get into Section 419 is extremely restrictive for any business. <br /> 92 <br /> 93 Buddy Hartley: I don't think we can change state law. I think what we have done is a good start. <br /> 94 <br /> 95 Maxecine Mitchell: I hope we don't discourage people with small business and expenses. <br /> 96 <br /> 97 Tony Blake: I would like to see documentation as to when 419 applies. <br /> 98 <br /> 99 Ashley Moncado: It applies to everything. <br /> 100 <br /> 101 Tony Blake: I am not going to invite building inspectors to the house. <br /> 102 <br /> 103 Lisa Stuckey: I want to reiterate my employee issue which I think is a lot more flexible. In the Chapel Hill one it <br /> 104 states that no equipment or process shall be employed that will cause noise, vibration, etc. If you are putting a <br /> 105 business in a home it is part of the impact. What about signs? <br /> 106 <br /> 107 Ashley Moncado: The signage was not brought up. <br /> 108 <br /> 2 <br />