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3 <br /> <br />Pete Hallenbeck: So we can comment on the rural buffer and in general. The Ag Board thought the red items <br />should not be allowed in the rural buffer. I agree that removing the red items would be good. <br /> <br />Tony Blake: when you say regional meat processing you mean something like Siler City as opposed to your <br />seasonal deer hunter. <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: Correct. On page 100 of your full ORC packet there is a definition. <br /> <br />Tony Blake: Would a seasonal restaurant farm fall under the farm as long as it is a bona fide farm? <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: It you are located on the farm and serving products from the farm it probably is. <br /> <br />Pete Hallenbeck: One of the comments from Howard McAdams was that part of this is to take the seasonal nature <br />of farm income and level it out throughout the year. <br /> <br />Tony Blake: I was asking because of this idea of the county fair. The county fairs that I am used to include farmers <br />bringing in their fares and trades and you don’t want to discourage too much of that. You want people to be able to <br />bring things to the county fair. <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: This is the ORC’s opportunity to shape the amendments going to the public hearing in February. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: Someone has a bona fide farm with 50 acres of timber and he wants to start a saw mill rather than <br />haul it off to someone else. He wants to use half of that money to build a building for that. <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: Yes, as long as you are harvesting and milling the timber on your property. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: Don’t you get into foggy ground when you talk about a commercial stable and an equestrian center is <br />along the lines of hosting show events whereas a stable is boarding horses. <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: An equestrian center is for larger scale events that could happen regularly whereas a commercial <br />stable is for boarding and lessons and may have an occasional smaller-scale horse show. <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz: Does everyone kind of agree with Pete and what the APB was saying about allowing ASE-CZ to be <br />applied to the rural buffer but to take out those intensive uses for consideration in the rural buffer and in the ASE-CZ <br />that outside those more intensive uses should stay as intensive uses. <br /> <br />Pete Hallenbeck: It sets the ground work for when it goes to the BOCC. When they break the ground as to <br />whether this can be allowed in the rural buffer and set the stage for what can be and slicing the rural buffer out as <br />having it own allowable activity in compared to the rest of the county. <br /> AGENDA ITEM 4: ADJOURNMENT <br /> <br />Meeting was adjourned <br />8