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D R A F T 3 statement by its character would suggest that if any one of those things occurred in your business you would be 108 required to file for at least a minor permit? 109 110 Ashley Moncado: Correct. Our intention of writing the on-site retail sales…what you are describing is that she is 111 not welcoming anyone on to the site. Everything is done online or on the phone. 112 113 Paul Guthrie: What about the internet sale. 114 115 Ashley Moncado: If you are looking at internet sales and no one is being welcome on site then they would be 116 exempt. As soon as you welcome people on the site and have a sales transaction, then you would have to go 117 through a minor home occupation. 118 119 Paul Guthrie: I went back to the UDO and in the context of this language that is what flagged this immediately. I 120 think we need to be careful as we expand this. 121 122 Tony Blake: I was reading the Carrboro response on page 31 and they brought up a couple of issues that were 123 transitive issues from allowing the other home base business and it talks about how many people and how many 124 vehicles and their security. These are the types of small businesses under the radar out there and I don’t want to 125 discourage them. We need to find a way to fix that. 126 127 Herman Staats: If this is a planning issue where we consider use of property, etc. then the implementation of it and 128 what guides that implementation is the question. Are we asking for links or copies of tax returns? How do we 129 implement this? If for farming, you have to have a dollar amount to be classified as a farm. 130 131 Perdita Holtz: Can I clarify that point. It is no longer the case that you have to have a certain level of sales to be 132 classified a bona fide farm; the state legislature changed it last year. There is no longer a minimum amount. 133 134 Herman Staats: My point is about being tax exempt with a certain dollar amount that defines that you a real farm 135 and deserve a tax exempt status. Is it the purpose of this permitting process to make someone selling a hundred 136 bucks a year to get a permit? Are there guidelines? 137 138 Paul Guthrie: The only difficulties are sales is very different in terms of that one sale. 139 140 Lisa Stuckey: A lot of sole proprietorships aren’t tax exempt. I don’t know where to draw the line. How onerous is 141 the process we have developed? 142 143 Michael Harvey: Under the current process, which is what the minor will end up being, the application package 144 requires the applicant show us the property using a plot plan, provide a floor plan of your house, and a detailed 145 narrative explaining the operations of the home based business. We can typically handle an application within 30 146 minutes if you want to wait for it, you pay your $90 application fee, we send you the approval packet, you sign it and 147 you are on record as having the permit being issued. 148 149 Lisa Stuckey: Is there an annual fee? 150 151 Michael Harvey: No. 152 153 Paul Guthrie: This is a backdoor business license. 154 155 Perdita Holtz: No, it is a land use regulation. 156 157 Tony Blake: We are interested in the impact on their property and their neighbors. The function of planning is to 158 say, we are looking for innovation, we shouldn’t hobble it. The rest of the regulation is for another department. 159 160 Lisa Stuckey: If it is basically invisible to the neighbors, how much impact is that having on the neighbors? 161 7