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D R A F T 3 AGENDA ITEM 8: 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT 108 AMENDMENTS: To make a recommendation to the BOCC on government-initiated amendments 109 to the text of the UDO to establish a zoning program commonly referred to as Agricultural 110 Support Enterprises (ASE) outside of the Rural Buffer land use classification. This item was 111 heard at the February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing. 112 Presenter: Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Coordinator 113 114 Perdita Holtz: Reviewed abstract. 115 116 Tony Blake: You are talking about ground water, you are not talking about a farm pond used for watering animals or 117 irrigation? 118 119 Pedita Holtz: Correct. We are talking about a well being drilled. If it would be more clarifying to put in ‘ground water 120 accessed via a well’, we can put that in the language. 121 122 Tony Blake: I am out of my area of knowledge. 123 124 Paul Guthrie: Are we comfortable with the 240 figure that is used through most of this dialogue as the baseline. 125 126 Perdita Holtz: A recharge study done in the 1990’s found the recharge rate was over 300 gallons per day per acre of 127 land. We are comfortable that the average single family home uses 240 gallons per day. It is an average. 128 129 Paul Guthrie: I speak from experience and getting three gallons a minute at 270 feet and in those days the well up 130 the street was 80 feet so it varies so much. 131 132 Perdita Holtz: It is true that in Orange County, the structure of the underground geology is you can have your well 133 and your neighbor’s well literally 50 feet away could have to be at a different depth. That is one of the purposes of 134 ground water studies. 135 136 Pete Hallenbeck: I think someone trying to set up an enterprise, thinking they could get more than that, they are 137 smart enough to not depend on the water. I think this is a reasonable number. 138 139 MOTION made by Paul Guthrie to accept the planning director’s recommendation. Seconded by James Lea. 140 VOTE: Unanimous 141 142 143 AGENDA ITEM 9: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT – HOME OCCUPATION: To review 144 certain aspects of the Planning Board- and Planning Director-initiated amendments to the 145 Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) regarding Home Occupations. At the February 18, 146 2014 BOCC meeting, the BOCC referred this item back to the Planning Board and staff for 147 further consideration. 148 Presenter: Ashley Moncado, Special Projects Planner 149 150 Ashley Moncado: Reviewed abstract. 151 152 Paul Guthrie: If everybody read the minutes of the last meeting, I won’t repeat those. I am concerned, while I 153 understand from a practical standpoint how this proposal is organized, it is visualized as protection of residential 154 neighborhood but in many cases, it will be governing places that under no definition would be a residential 155 neighborhood. I understand this is a practical problem of how you define things; it tends to make it easier for people 156 with larger properties and more money to own those properties in order to get into some of the businesses this tends 157 to regulate. I have some concern about that as you get into rural areas because I think that is an unfair balance we 158 don’t need to get in to. In many cases, this will be a case of selective enforcement because I don’t think the planning 159 department, even in its best day, can totally enforce this because the number of instances that may be used without 160 going through the permitting process so I am always concerned about government regulations where it will be 161 13